HAIKOU, China, Dec. 16, 2025 — From December 11 to 13, the 14th Listed Companies Development Summit (2025) and Hainan Free Trade Port Opportunities Forum took place in Haikou. The event was co-organized by National Business Daily (affiliated with Chengdu Media Group) and the Hainan Provincial Bureau of International Economic Development.
In December, Hainan is brimming with the institutional dividends and industrial opportunities brought about by China’s higher-standard opening-up. With the commencement of its special customs operations, Hainan now provides businesses with a simplified access to global markets. As a major annual event in China’s capital markets, the summit focused directly on the new opportunities emerging from the expanded opening-up.
The event brought together more than 400 listed companies and over 20 institutions, uniting business, government, and research elites to explore policy frameworks and global opportunities under Hainan’s island-wide independent customs operations. At the gathering, speakers offered forward-looking perspectives on macroeconomic, financial, investment, trade, and capital market trends for the coming year and even for the next five years.
Entrepreneurs posed specific questions regarding how “zero tariffs” and “tax exemptions on value-added processing” are implemented, and about the differences in regulatory rules governing the flow of capital, goods, people, and value-added activities within and outside the customs boundary, seeking straightforward answers.
As Mu Tao, Chairman of Chengdu Media Group and Party Secretary and Chairman of Chengdu Media Industry Group, pointed out in his speech, the event aims to “gather elites from government, industry, academia, and research, build cooperation platforms, promote the exchange of ideas, explore development paths, facilitate on-site visits, deepen project implementation, and help participants benefit from policy incentives and expand cooperation opportunities”.
Launched and hosted by National Business Daily in 2011, the Listed Companies Development Summit (previously known as the “China Listed Companies Summit”) is a high-level economic forum that has been successfully held for thirteen editions in cities such as Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chengdu.
Source: National Business Daily (under Chengdu Media Group)
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