China: Hainan offshore duty-free shopping booms during National Day holiday
Source Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror
Customers select goods at a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 7, 2026. According to Haikou customs, the customs authority supervised offshore duty-free purchases worth 855 million yuan (about 126.8 million U.S. dollars) during the seven-day National Day holiday from Oct. 1 to 7, involving 123,000 shopping visits and 696,800 items. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
A customer selects goods at a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 7, 2026. According to Haikou customs, the customs authority supervised offshore duty-free purchases worth 855 million yuan (about 126.8 million U.S. dollars) during the seven-day National Day holiday from Oct. 1 to 7, involving 123,000 shopping visits and 696,800 items. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
Customers pay bills at a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 7, 2026. According to Haikou customs, the customs authority supervised offshore duty-free purchases worth 855 million yuan (about 126.8 million U.S. dollars) during the seven-day National Day holiday from Oct. 1 to 7, involving 123,000 shopping visits and 696,800 items. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
Customers select goods at a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 7, 2026. According to Haikou customs, the customs authority supervised offshore duty-free purchases worth 855 million yuan (about 126.8 million U.S. dollars) during the seven-day National Day holiday from Oct. 1 to 7, involving 123,000 shopping visits and 696,800 items. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
Customers select goods at a duty-free shop in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 2, 2026. According to Haikou customs, the customs authority supervised offshore duty-free purchases worth 855 million yuan (about 126.8 million U.S. dollars) during the seven-day National Day holiday from Oct. 1 to 7, involving 123,000 shopping visits and 696,800 items. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
Customers select goods at a duty-free shop in Sanya, south China’s Hainan Province, Oct. 2, 2026. According to Haikou customs, the customs authority supervised offshore duty-free purchases worth 855 million yuan (about 126.8 million U.S. dollars) during the seven-day National Day holiday from Oct. 1 to 7, involving 123,000 shopping visits and 696,800 items. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
