Expert seminar makes proposals for Hainan FTZ (port) headquarters economy

An expert seminar discussing Hainan's free trade zone (port) and planning for its headquarters economic zone was held in Haikou, capital of Hainan province, on May 14.

A dozen top-level experts from home and abroad, masters in architectural planning and design, gathered in the city. With strong support of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, they offered targeted advice and suggestions in urban and regional planning, development paths, important building design, harmonious development between city and nature, urban reshaping and pace of construction.

Liu Cigui, Secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee, expressed his hope that the experts might give instructions on efficient space use, rational traffic layout, harmony between man and nature, and deep integration between buildings and the ecological environment based on world-class standards and full-scale research on the planning of Hainan's free trade zone and port.

Huang Yan, deputy minister of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that the construction of Hainan's free trade zone and port is of great significance to comprehensively deepening reform and opening-up in the new era and forming a higher-level pattern. Experts will give full play to their rich professional experience to add to the construction of Hainan's free trade port and headquarters economy in compliance with the province's long-term development.

Next, high-standard construction will be promoted with a people-oriented policy at a scientific and reasonable pace to coordinate internal relationships between production, living and environmental protection.