Hainan duty-free sales exceed 944 mln USD in H1

Customers select goods in a duty-free shop (DFS) in Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, on July 13, 2019. Offshore duty-free shops on China's island province of Hainan raked in 6.5 billion yuan (about 944.8 million U.S. dollars) in sales in the first half of 2019, up 26.56 percent year on year, local customs said. Official data showed that Hainan's duty-free shops received about 1.7 million customers and sold nearly 8.94 million items over the period, up 15.98 percent and 27.54 percent respectively. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)