In the first half of this year, Meilan District in Haikou City adhered to five key priorities: scheduling, service delivery, focus on key areas, addressing weaknesses, and driving growth. These efforts have fully propelled a stable and improving economic trend, laying a solid foundation for achieving the district's socio-economic development goals.

Since the implementation of the study and education campaign to thoroughly uphold the spirit of the Central Eight-point Regulation, Meilan District has advanced learning, inspection, and correction under a "strict and effective" standard. By closely integrating education with actual operations, the district promoted economic growth through the following measures: implementing the "First Half-Year Major Economic Sprint Work Plan," adopting an industry strategy of "anchoring both ends while stabilizing the middle," establishing a "dynamic balance and complementary differentiation" industrial coordination mechanism, optimizing a "misaligned monthly indicators" early-warning and scheduling model, and ensuring district leaders conduct biweekly reviews while responsible leaders hold weekly special promotion meetings. As a result, the district's GDP has steadily risen, key industry indicators have precisely rebounded, and the outcomes of the study and education campaign have been effectively translated into tangible results driving high-quality development in Meilan District.

1. Key indicators show steady growth; economic foundation continues to strengthen

In the first half of the year, Meilan District's GDP reached 280.2 billion yuan. At constant prices, this represents a year-over-year growth of 6.7%, an acceleration of 0.7 percentage points compared to the first quarter. Growth momentum is heavily concentrated in the tertiary sector, which contributed 248.9 billion yuan, growing by 8.8%.

II. "Combination of Measures" in Investment Promotion Yields Results, Market Vitality Continues to Strengthen

This year, Meilan District has closely aligned with the Municipal Party Committee's "Six Cities" deployment, strengthened its role as an investment promotion hub, proactively engaged in precise targeting, and continuously expanded its investment promotion network. As a result, high-visibility and highly export-oriented enterprises such as JD.com, TONGCHENG Travel, Huatie Group, and Japan's "Itamae Shabu-Ichi" have successfully established operations in Meilan. Market vitality continues to grow. From 1 to 6, signed investment projects totaled 28.34 billion yuan.

In the first half of the year, the Investment Promotion Bureau held 13 investment promotion events in Chengdu, Nanjing, and other cities. At the Global Industry Investment Conference in Hainan Free Trade Port, a total of 8 projects were signed with a combined value of 71.77 billion yuan.

This year, 15 foreign-invested enterprises at the Oceania Free Trade Center have made paid-in capital contributions, generating revenue exceeding 10 million yuan and tax payments of 1646.7 thousand yuan, continuously injecting strong momentum into high-quality international trade and economic development in Meilan District.

In 5, the Free Trade Port financial innovation case of "Cross-border Capital + Industrial Agglomeration" from the Dayingshan Financial Center industrial cluster was publicly released. Leveraging the unique advantages of the Dayingshan "Double Q Fund" industrial cluster, a total of 6 private equity firms registered and set up operations this year, including Shengxing Tianqi Private Equity with registered capital reaching 9 billion yuan. Yuanfeng Private Equity has been included in the QFLP balance management demonstration site (the 2th in the province), with asset management scale exceeding 100 billion yuan.

In 6, the service enabled enterprises under JD.com to enter the warehouse, achieving over 1 billion yuan in retail sales. This injected "new momentum" into regional retail, driving a 23.0% year-over-year growth in total social consumer goods retail for the district.

Meilan District leveraged the educational campaign to deeply implement the spirit of the Central Eight-point Regulation, integrating style improvement with economic development. It established a tiered cultivation mechanism featuring "database tracking + policy guidance + dynamic monitoring + joint review," deploying dedicated staff to provide one-on-one assistance and ensure parallel progress across all matters. This approach offers enterprises fully managed services, eliminating后顾之忧 (concerns). In the first half of the year, the district added 21 enterprises with registered capital exceeding 100 million yuan. From January to 6 of 2024, 183 new enterprises were added to the database, including 16 in retail and 41 in other for-profit services. Sales (revenue) grew by 657.9% and 60.4% year-over-year, respectively, establishing these sectors as new growth engines.

"With the support of relevant government departments and the Japan-China Enterprise Cooperation Center, the restaurant is now in the trial menu phase and will soon open its doors to customers." Iwashi Tetsu expresses strong confidence in the future growth of the restaurant ("Itamae Yakiniku Ichiro," Hainan's first location).

"A competitor acted as the matchmaker; their trust alleviated our concerns, leading to our final decision to locate in Meilan. Leveraging the policy advantages of the Free Trade Port, we aim to target the global roll-forming equipment market and will partner with a domestic new energy vehicle brand to establish manufacturing facilities in Europe. Simultaneously, we are collaborating with the Oceania Free Trade Center to launch a QFLP fund targeting gaming companies, bringing their international expansion operations to Meilan," said a representative from Nakonol.

3. Major projects drive strong momentum, enhancing long-term development potential

Accelerated the Phase II Henggou Village urban renewal project to "break ground upon land acquisition," setting a citywide record for land transaction efficiency. On 6 month 10, the Phase II Henggou Village Urban Renewal Project in Haikou officially commenced construction, marking a new phase of comprehensive rollout and accelerated development for this key municipal project with an overall planned area of approximately 700 acres and a total construction volume nearing one million square meters.

Drive leading industrial enterprises like Jiangdong Smart to continuously unlock growth potential. In the first half of the year, output value from above-scale industries reached 74.1 billion yuan, up 83.1%—a 49.7 percentage point increase over the first quarter. Through joint government-business promotional campaigns, automobile sales hit 48.5 billion yuan, up 36.9%—a 19.3 percentage point rise over Q1. This boosted total retail sales for above-scale enterprises across the district to 108.6 billion yuan, up 42.6%—an 34 percentage point improvement over the first quarter.

53 provincial major projects have an annual planned investment of 114.6 billion yuan. By the first half of the year, 62 billion yuan has been invested, achieving 54.1% of the plan and accounting for 40% of total investments in the first half. Projects such as the "Super Operator" for air special cargo and the Hainan International Smart Logistics and Trade Cloud Port are progressing ahead of schedule among the 19 initiatives.

This year marks the closure of operations and expanded opening-up of the Hainan Free Trade Port, making the achievement of this year's economic targets politically and developmentally critical. Moving forward, Meilan District will continue to consolidate the positive momentum of economic performance, boost morale and determination, and apply a spirit of "striving," an urgency of "seizing opportunities," and a pragmatic work style to push through the third quarter and secure success in the second half of the year. We are committed to driving high-quality growth in Meilan's economy—achieving substantial improvements in quality alongside reasonable expansion in scale—and contributing Meilan's strength to the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port and Haikou's high-quality development.

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