Hainan Free Trade Port launched island-wide closure on the 18th, a landmark measure of China's high-level opening-up. International figures recognize its role in facilitating global trade, attracting enterprises, and promoting an open world economy.

On December 18th, Hainan Free Trade Port officially launched island wide lockdown, a landmark for China's high-level opening-up. It explores institutional openness, provides national samples, strengthens global cooperation, and invites the world to share development opportunities.

Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) launched island-wide closure on Dec 18, with policies like zero tariff and 30% value-added processing tariff exemption boosting secondary processing, aviation maintenance, and yacht industries. Yangpu Port is the core hub; enterprises benefit from policy dividends, and aviation maintenance saw 68.6% YoY growth in bonded maintenance value.

In 2025, China-ASEAN cooperation advances against external uncertainties: CAFTA upgraded to 3.0, Year of Cultural Exchange concluded, trade grows (ASEAN is China's largest partner), emerging fields and infrastructure progress, targeting a closer community.

On December 18, 2025, Hainan Free Trade Port launched island-wide closure operation, a milestone in China's reform and opening-up. Its strategic goal is to build an important open gateway to the Pacific and Indian Oceans, with core policies like zero tariffs and low tax rates. Closure is a new starting point for higher-level opening-up, not the end, aiming to promote institutional openness and regional cooperation.

The Hainan Free Trade Port is launching a full island lockdown operation, a landmark China opening-up measure attracting global attention. International entities highlight its opportunities for foreign businesses, with data showing growing foreign investment confidence in Hainan.

China promotes high-level opening up to cope with external uncertainties, enhance dual circulation, accelerate customs clearance facilitation, attract high-quality foreign investment, and support enterprises to go global. Regions like Shanghai, Jiangsu and Hainan have practical measures, injecting vitality into the world economy.

This article explains China's trade surplus follows economic laws and global division of labor. It criticizes US/EU double standards, tech blockades and zero-sum thinking that distort global trade. China actively expands imports and promotes fair trade, while US/EU restrictions harm themselves and miss opportunities.

On December 16, 2025, China's Ministry of Commerce issued a final ruling on the anti-dumping investigation of EU-origin pork and pig by-products. Launched at the request of China Animal Husbandry Association on June 17, 2024, the ruling found dumping causing substantial harm to China's domestic industry. Measures (4.9%-19.8% tax) take effect Dec 17 for 5 years.

The article emphasizes adhering to innovation-driven development, developing new quality productive forces, integrating technological and industrial innovation, and implementing measures to promote high-quality development in line with the Central Economic Work Conference's deployment.

The Central Economic Work Conference outlines China's 2025 economic work and 15th Five-Year Plan. International community praises China's steady growth, resilience, innovation-driven development, and its role as global growth engine. International institutions raise 2025 growth forecasts for China.

As 2025 closes, China's economy is on track to hit its 5% growth target, per NBS. Data shows steady consumption, import/export growth, and robust high-tech manufacturing. Foreign media and int'l institutions recognize its resilience and proactive policies, boosting confidence in its outlook.

The content discusses China's current and next-year economic work, adhering to "seek progress while maintaining stability", coordinating development and security, implementing proactive fiscal and moderately loose monetary policies, focusing on high-tech manufacturing growth and domestic demand expansion, and emphasizing confidence in China's economic prospects.

The Proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the 15th Five-Year Plan emphasizes promoting innovative trade development, covering its significance, basic requirements, and main tasks to accelerate building a strong trading country.

The Central Economic Work Conference prioritizes expanding domestic demand as a key task for next year’s economic work. It emphasizes consumption as the main growth driver, investment’s role in supply structure optimization, and aligns with the 15th Five-Year Plan to build a strong domestic market for high-quality development and the new development pattern.

On December 10th, Huangdao Customs and 5 units released "Customs Port Connection 2.0", an upgrade of 2021's 1.0 with cross-regional inspection, smart modules for various goods, improving customs clearance efficiency, covering main port cargo types, and supporting Qingdao Port's high-quality development.

China's Ministry of Commerce spokesperson responded on Dec 11 to Mexico's tax proposal for non-FTA partners approved by Mexican Congress, opposing unilateral tariffs, noting close monitoring, ongoing investigation, hoping Mexico corrects unilateralism/protectionism, and safeguarding China-Mexico economic and trade relations.

The Central Economic Work Conference (Dec 10-11) deployed 2025 economic tasks, proposing foreign investment-related opening-up measures to address globalization headwinds. Officials emphasized foreign enterprises' importance, with plans to relax market access and optimize the business environment.

The 2025 Central Economic Work Conference (Dec 10-11, Beijing) summarized 2025 economic work, analyzed current situation, deployed 2026 work for the 15th Five-Year Plan's good start, focusing on domestic market, new drivers, reform, green transformation, people's livelihood, risk resolution, with proactive macro policies.

The National Retail Industry Innovation and Development Conference was held in Beijing on Dec 9-10, focusing on 15th Five-Year Plan retail innovation, modern retail system construction, 14th Five-Year achievements, and boosting domestic circulation. Reps from various sectors attended to discuss policies and exchange experiences.