The reporter knew from the meeting of Hainan International Tourism Destination Construction Leading Group (expand) on June 18 that Hainan International Tourism Destination Construction and Development Outline which is considered to be the basic blueprint and action program of the construction of Hainan International Tourism Destination was officially approved by National Development and Reform Commission on June 8.
The quantity of the characters of this document is up to 39,000. It defined the guiding ideology, strategic positioning, development goals and priorities of Hainan International Tourism Destination construction with 17 chapters 63 sections. Besides that it also proposed the concrete work arrangements of the Hainan International Tourism Destination s construction from the aspects of space layout, infrastructure, industrial development, security measures and the recent action plan etc. based on the comprehensive analysis of the internal and external conditions of the development of Hainan International Tourism Destination.
A document released by the State Council stated that Hainan will be built into a top international tourism destination is expected to be finished by 2020. By then, Hainan's added value of the tourism industry will account for 12% of the proportion of area GDP, the proportion of the tertiary industry will reach 60%,and the proportion of the quantity of the employees of tertiary industry will reach 60%. GDP per capita, urban and rural incomes and the quality of life of the whole Province will strive to reach the domestic advanced level, while its integrated environmental quality will continue to maintain the national leading level.
The document scientifically determined the 6 major functional group of the Hainan International Tourism Destination construction: the northern group is centre with Haikou including Wenchang, Ding an and Chengmai, focusing on the development of culture and entertainment, conference and exhibition, business and catering industry, golf leisure, finance and insurance, education and training, real estate and other modern service industry as well as the industries such as automobile manufacturing, biological pharmacy, food processing, high-tech and so on. The southern group is center with Sanya including Lingshui, Baoting and Ledong, focusing on the development of hotel accommodation, sports and entertainment, convalescence leisure, and commercial and catering industries. The middle group which is composed of Wuzhishan, Qiongzhong, Tunchang, and Baisha will develop the tropical characteristic agriculture, forestry economic, ecological tourism and ethnic customs tourism based on strengthening the protection of the tropical rain forests and water sources land. The two cities of Qionghai and Wanning make the eastern group; they develop and grow the coastal tourism, tropical characteristics agriculture, marine fisheries, and agricultural products processing industry, as well as build the cultural gathering area and distribute the special tourism projects appropriately according to the conditions. The western group including Danzhou, Lingao, Changjiang, Dongfang and Yangpu Economic Development Zone will focus on the development of harbor industry and high-tech industries and develop eco-tourism, adventure tourism, industrial tourism and coastal tourism positively. Marine group will give full advantages to marine resources to consolidate and promote the marine fisheries and marine transportation, enlarge and strengthen the offshore oil and gas resource s exploration, mining and processing industry to develop the marine tourism and encourage the development of marine industries greatly.
The Industries development occupies the longest part of the document, and there top eight industries need to be developed mainly, they are tourism, culture and sports industries, real estate, finance and insurance, trade and business catering industry and modern logistics industry, modern agriculture of tropical characteristics, new industries and high-tech industries, and marine economy. Hainan will focus on the following top ten tourism products, such as characteristic tours of holiday tourism, marine tourism, sports and leisure, recuperation leisure, business and exhibition, ethnic customs and culture, red-tour, leisure agriculture and rural tourism and tropical forest and self-help tourism. At the same time, the top six fine tourist routes will be released; they are tropical coastal experience tour around Hainan, eastern-line coastal vacation leisure tour, middle-line folk customs and cultural experience tour, west-line special adventure experience tour, Virgin tropical rain forest eco-tour, and marine adventure eco-tour.The document put forward that it is the safeguard mechanism of Hainan International Tourism Destination construction to adhere to reform and opening up, innovative institutional mechanisms and enlarge the policy supporting. During arrange the central budget investment and other central special investment for the Infrastructure and ecological construction of Hainan International Tourism Destination construction, the western development policy was carried out. We should vigorously innovative the investment and financing form, establish Hainan International Tourism Destination Development Fund and other financing platform i.e. Hainan International Tourism Destination Development Fund and Special fund for Hainan tourism development respectively, and carry out the preferential fiscal and tax policies and land policies.
The document paid much attention to people's livelihood, it proposed to push the equalization of urban and rural areas basic public services, and promote the extension of the basic public services to the grassroots, the rural, and the vulnerable groups. Ensure that each zero-employment family, landless farmer and poor family has at least one employment for the age labor force.
The document proposed that there are a total of 10 major projects 40 sub-projects in the recent action plan, including the public collection of the logo and mascot of Hainan International Tourism Destination, selection or appointment of an ambassador for Hainan International Tourism Destination, completing the construction and transformation of the tourism toilets, and promotion of the tourism administrative system s reform.
