Southern province sets sights on becoming global tourism destination

Hainan province is expected to expand the network of duty-free shops across the island in a bid to build itself into a global shopping center and tourism destination, Luo Baoming, Party secretary of Hainan, said in an interview.

"It is a preliminary plan, and it still requires a lot of solid and detailed research and preparations," Luo told China Daily on the sidelines of the ongoing 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing.