Chinese President Xi Jinping urged greater efforts and more concrete measures to strengthen basic research, enhance China's capacity for original innovation, and further solidify the foundation for building the country's strength in science and technology.
China will continue to expand high-standard opening up, accelerate the development of new quality productive forces, and promote industrial upgrading toward high-end, intelligent and green development, Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said.
Fifteen years after China launched the offshore duty-free shopping policy in Hainan, its southernmost island province, customs authorities have supervised a cumulative 286.4 billion yuan in offshore duty-free sales, involving 347 million items, according to local customs authorities.