Free trade facility meant to be a place for promoting bold reform, innovations

President Xi Jinping underlined the importance of high quality and high standards in building a free trade port in Hainan province while prioritizing integrated institutional reform in the process of building the port.

Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said in an instruction published on Monday that building the free trade port is a major strategic decision adopted by the CPC Central Committee.

Eyeing the big picture from both domestic and international perspectives, the move is to further the innovative development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, he said.

Xi called for more effort to free minds and enable bold innovations so reform measures can be rolled out immediately after successful test runs.

Central authorities must support bold reform and innovations by the province and enable the port's development to attain continuous new results, he said.