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CHINA PRESS: China has published a blueprint to build Hainan Province, an island

off the mainland, into a free trade port. The free trade port blueprint,

released on Monday, will include "zero-tariffs" and significantly relaxed market

and investment access for foreign companies, according to He Lifeng, the

director of the National Development and Reform Commission. Quoted in the

People's Daily, He said Hainan Island deviates from the main international ship

routes and lacks development in the hinterland. As a result, the island should

focus on the tourism industry, a modern services industry and high-tech industry

instead of developing processing trade using imported raw materials, He said.