China News Service, Chengmai, Hainan, October 31 (Chen Yingqing Wang Xiaobin) "Investing in the establishment of a special vehicle export base is our strategic layout to deeply cultivate Southeast Asia and explore the global market based on the Hainan Free Trade Port." Cheng Aluo, chairman and general manager of Hainan Chengli Automobile Manufacturing Co., Ltd., said in an interview on the 31st that the Hainan Free Trade Port has significant advantages in opening up, and policies such as zero tariffs and low tax rates are full of "magnetic attraction"; Chengmai is focusing on building an export-oriented automobile industry ecology, with significant location and policy advantages.
On the same day, the 2026 China Chengmai International Economic and Trade Fair (referred to as the "Economic Fair") opened in Chengmai, Hainan.
Anchoring the overseas gateway
“If you want to go overseas, come to Chengmai” is not only the theme of this Economic and Trade Fair, but also a vivid reflection of Chengmai’s positioning as “a key gateway for Chinese enterprises to go overseas”, promoting investment promotion and striving for economic growth. In recent years, Chengmai has focused on the five overseas scenarios of gaming, cross-border e-commerce, manufacturing, new energy vehicles, and digital culture, and continues to polish this city label.
"In the past three years, Chengmai has gathered more than 470 companies of various types going overseas. The industry has strong momentum of development and broad prospects." Chengmai County Magistrate Xu Tao said at the meeting that if games go overseas, Chengmai has sharpened its sword for three years and developed a test question on the safe and orderly flow of cross-border data into a public service link that allows small and medium-sized teams to reduce costs and deliver products to global players in compliance with regulations.
The PlayOL platform, a subsidiary of the Hainan Game Overseas Public Service Platform, has been online for more than a year and has released a total of 336 approved games. It has attracted more than 37 million overseas players, covering more than 190 countries and regions. Chengmai game companies’ overseas revenue has exceeded 1 billion yuan.
A number of key projects were signed at the meeting, and the scale of the signed projects reached new breakthroughs, covering new materials, advanced manufacturing, new energy, cross-border e-commerce, cultural tourism and health care and other industrial directions, including many industry leaders and listed companies. These projects are highly consistent with Chengmai’s five major overseas scenarios.
Fertile business ground helps companies go global
As one of the contracted companies, Sunwanda Electronics Co., Ltd. has invested in the construction of a flagship comprehensive energy base in Chengmai that integrates research and development of energy supplement services.
"We visited Hainan for the first time last year. During the docking and exchange with Chengmai, we very much appreciated the service guarantee and efficient decision-making mechanism of the local government." Sun Wei, the company's senior vice president, said that from the initial docking, to the signing of a framework agreement between the two parties in July this year, and now that the project has entered the substantial implementation stage, this is inseparable from the local government's attention to the enterprise.
"During the implementation of the project, Chengmai departments at all levels tracked the entire process and provided front-line service guarantees, which made us feel safe to invest, develop with confidence, and start a business with confidence." Cheng Aluo said that in the next step, the company will rely on Chengmai's open platform to build a foreign trade center, a product export R&D center, a data technology transfer center, an overseas display center, an innovative financial center and a special vehicle export assembly base.
Xu Tao said that in Chengmai, through the project through-train model, the time limit from land acquisition to the start of construction projects has been shortened from 15 days to the fastest one day. Project managers, assistants, and agents provide full-process services from negotiation to production, and the approval efficiency has increased by more than 90%; the scale of industrial land supply has ranked among the top in Hainan Province for two consecutive years.
Xu Tao said that Chengmai has always believed that a good business environment is never an abstract slogan, but a concrete support that allows enterprises to have no worries when taking root, to have people help them when they expand, and to share the fruits of development when they grow.
Free trade port policy empowers overseas expansion
Battelle, member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, said that Chengmai is a microcosm of Hainan and an important place for Hainan enterprises to go overseas. Currently, the policies and opening-up advantages of the Hainan Free Trade Port are gradually emerging, which can provide various supports for enterprises to go overseas.
Hainan Free Trade Port is forming a zero-tariff, low-tax policy framework. Tax incentives continue to increase, the scope of zero-tariff goods is further expanded, and policies such as processing value-added tariff exemptions continue to be optimized. Enterprises in encouraged industries registered in Hainan Free Trade Port and operating substantially are levied a corporate income tax at a reduced rate of 15%. For qualified high-end talents and talents in short supply, those whose actual personal income tax burden exceeds 15% will be exempted.
Hainan is located at the intersection of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and its aviation and shipping network connects East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions. Hainan is steadily building a headquarters base for Chinese enterprises to enter the international market and overseas enterprises to enter the Chinese market; it is promoting the construction of an international shipping hub for the New Western Land-Sea Corridor and an aviation regional gateway hub for the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
At the same time, Hainan actively aligns with international high-standard economic and trade rules, continuously expands international economic and trade cooperation, and facilitates personnel exchanges, providing support for enterprises to coordinate domestic and international markets and resources.
