China-Hainan/Development

Shotlist

FILE: Hainan Province, south China – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Aerial shot of cityscape
2. Various of new houses in village
3. Various of sheds, craftsman making product

FILE: Sanya City, Hainan Province, south China – April 9, 2013 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of Chinese President Xi Jinping talking with flower growers, flower growers applauding
5. Xi wearing straw hat, flower growers applauding

FILE: Hainan Province, south China – April 10, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
6. Seaside
7. Xi listening to report by local official about coastal ecological conservation
8. Sea
9. Xi watering evergreen tree

FILE: Wuzhishan City, Hainan Province, south China – April 11, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
10. Xi talking with villagers

FILE: Hainan Province, south China – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
11. Various of mountains
12. Alsophila spinulosa, also known as tree ferns
13. Aerial shot of wind, solar farm
14. Aerial shot of mountain
15. Aerial shot of coastal view
16. Aerial shot of wetland, birds
17. Aerial shot of mountain
18. Aerial shots of cityscape, traffic
19. Entrance to Wenchang International Aerospace City
20. Various of construction projects, buildings

Hainan Province, south China – July 29, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
21. Aerial shot of port scene
22. Sign reading (Chinese):” Launch ceremony for construction of first batch of projects related to independent customs operations throughout Hainan island”
23. Aerial shot of port scene

FILE: Hainan Province, south China – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
24. Aerial shot of port scene
25. Various of cityscape, buildings
26. Aerial shot of Yangpu Economic Development Zone
27. Aerial shot of freight vessel sailing
28. Aerial shot of cityscape
29. Entrance to Administrative Committee of National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone in Haikou
30. Sign reading (Chinese):”Service center of administrative examination and approval bureau”
31. Various of staff providing service to clients
32. Aerial shot of cityscape
33. Aerial shot of coastal view
34. Aerial shot of building
35. Various of plants
36. Aerial shot of coastal view

Hainan Province, south China – Recent (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
37. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Gu Gang, director, Hainan provincial development and reform commission (ending with shots 38-41):
“The General Secretary has put forward a very clear direction for the future development of Hainan. We should accurately and holistically implement the new development philosophy, focus on our four industrial systems to improve the quality and efficiency of the province’s coordinated development, and promote Hainan to become a model of China’s reform and opening up.”

FILE: Hainan Province, south China – Date Unknown (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
38. Aerial shot of coastal view
39. Aerial shot of offshore drilling platform
40. Aerial shot of construction project
41. Aerial shot of coastal view, wind turbines
42. Aerial shot of plants
43. Aerial shots of resort, tourists
44. Various of students on playground, having class
45. Aerial shot of hospital
46. Doctors examining baby
47. Various of plane on apron, passengers
48. Various of sea, divers; creatures
49. Aerial shot of island, boats
50. Aerial shot of cityscape
51. Various of train running, expressway, airport
52. Various of cityscape, high-rises, traffic

Storyline

Hainan, China’s southernmost island province, has made leapfrog developing in the past ten years, riding high on its industrious construction of free trade port (FTP) and becoming a model demonstrating the country’s reform and opening-up in the new era.

The country first proposed to establish a free trade zone in Hainan in 2018 and began its construction in 2020.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Hainan has firmly pushed forward the green development by clearly defining a “red line” for ecological protection, taking the lead in the country in banning the use of plastics, vigorously boosting clean energy consumption, and carrying out holistic conservation and systematic restoration of its tropical rainforest.

Over the past decade, Hainan has maintained good air quality, and its forest coverage rate has remained stable at 62.1 percent and above, ranking top among all the provincial-level regions in ecological quality of environment.

The construction of Hainan FTP and 11 key industrial parks has been proceeding steadily in an effective and orderly manner. And the construction of the first batch of nine projects related to independent customs operations throughout Hainan island also began on Friday.

According to the general plan of the construction of the Hainan FTP, the island will set up eight ports for foreign countries and regions, and ten ports facing the mainland, to administrate the import and export of goods.

Hainan will finish all the necessary infrastructure projects for independent customs operations by 2023, and will realize independent customs operations throughout the island by the end of 2025.

In the past ten years, Hainan has witnessed robust growth in the number of market entities and the use of foreign capital. The number of market entities registered in Hainan has increased from 420,000 ten years ago to more than 1.98 million, ranking first in the country in terms of the growth rate for 28 consecutive months.

Hainan’s leapfrog development has been powered by four leading industries — tourism, modern services, high-tech and high-efficiency tropical agriculture.

“The General Secretary has put forward a very clear direction for the future development of Hainan. We should accurately and holistically implement the new development philosophy, focus on our four industrial systems to improve the quality and efficiency of the province’s coordinated development, and promote Hainan to become a model of China’s reform and opening up,” said Gu Gang, director of Hainan provincial development and reform commission.

Over the past ten years, Hainan has received 634 million tourists from home and abroad, with an average annual growth rate of 9.2 percent. The first high-speed train line circling an island in the world has been put into operation in Hainan, while new expressways with a total length of 508 kilometers have been built during the period.