Beijing Pushes Hainan to Evolve Beyond Shopping Paradise

Hainan was China’s shopping paradise. For Beijing that’s no longer enough.

Beijing’s message is unmistakable: If Hainan can no longer thrive merely as a place for domestic shoppers to buy their perfume and handbags, it will have to become a place to process goods, attract overseas capital and experiment with a more open economic model.

By Tanner Brown