On the 8th, Haikou Customs released data showing that in the first six months of this year, the customs had supervised a total of 19.92 billion yuan in duty-free shopping on outlying islands, 15.966 million items, and 2.793 million shoppers, an increase of 18.8%, 7.3%, and 12.6% year-on-year, respectively.
In the first half of the year, Hainan expanded its domestic and international customer base through the integration of "cultural and tourism events+exhibitions and festivals+duty-free shopping". The 6th China International Consumer Goods Expo leads high-end consumption, overlapping with international events such as Qingming Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival holidays, ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, and the 6th Asian Beach Games in 2026. The popularity of duty-free services on the entire island continues to rise, and offshore duty-free services are accelerating towards internationalization, quality, and diversification.
Each tax-free business entity accurately seizes the opportunity of the exhibition, launches a series of activities such as new product launches, exclusive discounts, and linked promotions, innovatively creates an integrated consumption scene of "exhibition+tourism+tax-free shopping", and efficiently promotes the conversion of exhibition traffic into physical consumption increment. (Looking into the New Era)