The four-day China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) right this moment reaches its conclusion.
The Moodie Davitt Report is offering every day protection of the occasion in this devoted column. We’re working carefully with our strategic accomplice in Hainan, Hainan Hinews Media Co, whose staff are on web site all through the Expo offering reviews, footage and movies.
As reported, The Moodie Davitt Report and Hainan Hinews Media Co have struck a far-reaching win/win strategic cooperation settlement to spice up mutual protection of Hainan’s booming offshore responsibility free sector and the Free Commerce Port growth.
MONDAY 10 MAY
The China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) concludes right this moment on what guarantees to be an attention-grabbing notice because the occasion is opened to shoppers. All 50,000 tickets have been offered out. As reported, a particular incremental responsibility free allowance has been carried out for guests shopping for objects from the present. We we’ll deliver you reviews all through the day.
Open day brings big crowds
These photos, courtesy of Star Manufacturers Journey Retail CEO Rob Robertson, seize the spectacular final day scenes on the Expo, as 50,000 shoppers joined the occasion on high of the commerce audience.
Heating up in Hainan

Hainan in Could can get highly regarded and right this moment exterior the Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Heart in Haikou it’s round 35 levels celsius. Issues are hotting up inside too with some 50,000 shoppers anticipated to attend the open day.
Photos from an exhibition

(Above and under) The DFS Group exhibiton house is proving a well-liked draw. As reported, the retailer has curated a surprising show, which takes guests on an interactive journey that showcases the retailer’s international retailer community and experience in luxurious by way of a collection of daring and experiential areas.
Play misty for me
State media CCTV posted this report on the Expo, together with a captivating interview with Chen Hao, Director of Advertising and marketing Technique at Water God Liquid Disinfectant Need Need Group, which is showcasing its disinfection robots to spray giant public areas such because the Expo area.
“To make sure the protection of this huge gathering in opposition to the shadow of the epidemic, one of many exhibitors introduced with its disinfection robots to spray disinfectants across the venue,” the report says.
“The mist popping out of its head is barely acidic electrolyzed water which is a protected different to conventional chlorine therapy.”
Chen mentioned that an occasion of this scale requires an enormous quantity of disinfection. “Conventional therapies can solely be utilized when folks aren’t current. However our product has been examined as protected to inhale and even consumed by mouth.”
The firm instructed CCTV that gross sales for its merchandise elevated tenfold final yr, pushed by COVID-19 calls for. The model has been trying abroad for extra alternatives.

Huge crowds are pouring into the Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Heart right this moment because the Hainan Expo opens its doorways to shoppers on the final day. Our photos seize the thrill of the second.
Star Manufacturers Journey Retail seeks to assist manufacturers unlock Hainan potential
Star Manufacturers Journey Retail CEO Rob Robertson was interviewed by Lu Tian Qin, our colleague at Hainan Hinews Media Firm this morning.
As reported final month, in a serious growth for Hainan’s burgeoning offshore responsibility free channel, Star Manufacturers Asia and Bluebell Group have launched Star Manufacturers Journey Retail to unlock the potential for international manufacturers getting into Asia journey retail’s modern-day hotspot.

Star flip: Rob Robertson solutions the questions from Lu Tian Qin, our dynamic colleague from Hainan Hinews Media Firm [Photo: QingFang Li]
Star Manufacturers Asia was established in 2009 with a mission to turn out to be China’s magnificence knowledgeable accomplice for international manufacturers. Via Star Manufacturers Journey Retail, it is going to work carefully with Bluebell Group, which describes itself as Asia’s main omni model curator, to supply a variety of brand name operation and administration companies for manufacturers already current or looking for to enter Hainan’s journey retail market.
Star Manufacturers Asia has been Bluebell Group’s strategic accomplice in China for the sweetness sector since 2018.
Diageo showcases its numerous portfolio
Drinks large Diageo is showcasing its highly effective vary of spirits in fashion inside an expansive and stylish exhibition house.
In an interview with The Moodie Davitt Report to be printed later right this moment, Diageo International Journey Managing Director Eduardo Barp says: “We’re extremely excited by the potential in Hainan and the chance we’ve to achieve each native residents and a excessive variety of travellers visiting the island.
“With the infrastructure repeatedly enhancing and steps being put in place to make the island responsibility free by 2025, we’re assured that customer numbers will proceed to develop.
“The potential has at all times been clear, nevertheless it has been implausible to see how Chinese language customers are more and more embracing luxurious, worldwide-fashion spirits – notably Scotch whisky, which is proving particularly common with youthful shoppers.
“We additionally proceed to see strong efficiency in Baijiu although Shui Jing Fang and consider there’s a big quantity of headroom for our enterprise.”
SUNDAY 9 MAY
The China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) swings into its third day and the organisers are delighted with response so far. As soon as once more we’ll be offering intensive protection right this moment, with our colleagues at Hainan Hinews Media Firm on the bottom and Martin Moodie in Hong Kong all on responsibility.

Lara Netherlands and Polina Silicheva from the Hainan Hinews Media Firm staff are on location right this moment to deliver reside protection from the Expo. The Moodie Davitt Report Chairman Martin Moodie appeared on ‘Lara’s Expo Talks’ programme yesterday.
Foreo to the fore
Swedish magnificence tech and wellness model Foreo is the official Magnificence Gadgets Supplier for the primary China International Consumer Products Expo. International Journey Retail Director Gary Leong was available at Friday’s opening ceremony, co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce of the Individuals’s Republic of China and the Hainan Provincial Authorities. He was one among 1,000 VIP company invited for the occasion, the place Foreo added a particular welcome present for company.
Drinks corporations out in pressure
With wines & spirits having been added to the offshore responsibility free classes final July, there’s an understandably sturdy presence from the drinks sector on the present. Right here, through our colleagues on the bottom, we current some photos taken this morning.

Photograph by XinCai Wu, Hainan Hinews Media Firm

Photograph by XinCai Wu, Hainan Hinews Media Firm

Photograph by XinCai Wu, Hainan Hinews Media Firm

Photograph by XinCai Wu, Hainan Hinews Media Firm
Name in the DutyFreeExpert
Jason Cao is nicely-identified in journey retail circles for his DutyFreeExpert B2B data service. However the firm can also be constructing its model illustration companies and is introducing a number of new strains on the present. DutyFreeExpert (DFE) now has a thriving operation in Hainan, advising manufacturers on a variety of disciplines from employees coaching to merchandising. Because the photograph under exhibits, he’s additionally in nice demand as an interviewee.

Photograph by XinCai Wu, Hainan Hinews Media Firm
SATURDAY 8 MAY
Martin Moodie: Hainan’s responsibility free gross sales in 2020 are “astonishing”
The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie spoke right this moment at a excessive-energy convention organised by Hainan Hinews Media Firm, at which a White Paper on the way forward for Hainan’s offshore responsibility free business produced by KPMG and The Moodie Davitt Report was launched.
Moodie talked in regards to the “astonishing” efficiency of the sector in 2020 and likewise made a collection of suggestions on how the enterprise in Hainan may speed up even quicker.
Commenting on the +127% offshore responsibility free gross sales progress in 2020 to round US$5 billion, Moodie mentioned: “Whereas lots of the world media headlines counsel this extraordinary high-line progress was pushed solely by the truth that Chinese language couldn’t journey overseas through the pandemic, that’s solely a part of the truth. The different extra crucial component is the truth that offshore responsibility free represents essentially the most enlightened authorities coverage referring to the sector that the world has ever seen.
“So make no mistake, Hainan isn’t any short-term El Dorado for the journey retail and responsibility free world. It’s right here to remain.”
Moodie recognized the important thing challenges for Hainan’s responsibility free enterprise as follows.
- Model help: “The problem for all the brand new responsibility free retailers in Hainan is to persuade luxurious manufacturers to help them. Some model corporations are adopting a wait and see perspective earlier than committing to the brand new shops. Requirements of merchandising and employees service are crucial to model picture.”
- Recruitment and employees coaching: “Chinese language shoppers deserve the most effective and far effort have to be poured into correct employees coaching to make sure world-class requirements. The world’s nice manufacturers nurture their picture carefully and need to have absolutely-educated employees available who perceive the merchandise and may talk about them nicely.”
- Pricing: “Overly aggressive discounting will disrupt the market and trigger concern amongst model companions. Safety of brand name picture by way of disciplined value management and excessive-class visible merchandising is essential. Worth sure, extreme discounting no.”
- Enhancements to the availability chain: “Out of inventory conditions are dangerous for enterprise and consumer notion. The latest announcement that Cainiao Sensible Logistics Community, Alibaba’s logistics arm, is launching direct cargo flights between Singapore and Hainan seven days per week to bolster provide is welcome in that respect. As is the brand new Paris-Hainan cargo connection from Hainan Airways.”
- Digital excellence: “Digital communication is integral to Hainan offshore responsibility free, which has taken large steps in this regard. The energy of digital provides retailers and types the facility to achieve an enormous audience past that in the shop. This could stay an absolute precedence into the long run. Equally, the continued evolution of contactless in-store expertise will assist reassure shoppers in an acutely well being-aware age.”
- Chinese language manufacturers: “Whereas providing nice worldwide manufacturers is key to the success of Hainan’s offshore responsibility free sector, the proud heritage and craftsmanship of Chinese language merchandise must also occupy centre stage. Retailers have to be dedicated to creating a ‘Sense of Place’, each in phrases of Hainan particularly and China in common.”
- Company Social Accountability: “We reside in an age of utmost environmental concern and consciousness. Customers count on a lot from retailers and types in phrases of dedication to sustainability, the surroundings and society. That is notably related to Hainan which gives such a pristine surroundings and eco-aware society. Retailers should lead from the entrance in displaying their dedication to the planet and its folks.”

The Moodie Davitt Report, KPMG China and Hainan Hinews Media Firm signal a tripartite collaboration settlement right this moment. The events will work collectively to supply excessive-high quality ongoing data referring to the Hainan offshore responsibility free market.
In footage: Rémy Cointreau’s highly effective model showcase
Rémy Cointreau is showcasing its model portfolio on the Hainan Expo with a surprising experiential house (pictured under). Rémy Cointreau CEO Higher China Nicolas Beckers mentioned in a LinkedIn submit that the occasion represents “an amazing alternative to additional develop our manufacturers in each journey retail and residential markets in China”.
Including a private contact: Swatch reveals extension to Swatch x Y collection
Underlining its dedication to making a “world-famend wrist artwork museum”, the Swiss watchmaker is providing Expo company the chance to customize their watches with new Swatch x Y designs.
Swatch China Model Advertising and marketing Supervisor Cai Runlin mentioned: “For this Expo, we invited three artists in China and Switzerland to fastidiously design six canvases. We hope that by way of the completely different interpretations of tradition, cooperation and friendship by Chinese language and Western artists, we’ll improve the exchanges between the 2 nations.”
Guests can select their favorite kinds; the Swatch digital printers do the remaining.
World premiere: Fabergé reveals ‘100 Years of Prosperity’ golden Easter egg
The Hainan Expo is the stage for the world premiere of Fabergé’s newest golden Easter egg. Marking ‘100 years of Prosperity’, the 10kg, 18-carat gold egg commemorates the 100th anniversary of the demise of Russian jeweller, and model founder, Peter Carl Fabergé.
Impressed by the primary egg created by Fabergé for the Russian royal household in 1887, the masterpiece is embellished with diamonds, rubies and emeralds.
Fabergé International Gross sales and Enterprise Improvement Director Josina von dem Bussche Kessell mentioned Fabergé is thrilled to showcase this extraordinary work on the Expo in a tribute to the goldsmith’s life and historical past.
Secoo pronounces enlargement plans and enters strategic settlement with Hainan Visitors Administration Holding and Hainan Expressway
On-line platform Secoo has introduced a strategic settlement with Hainan Visitors Administration and Hainan Expressway. And Secoo intends to open buying and leisure centres all through Hainan inside the subsequent two years.
The companions will cooperate in consumer finance, provide chain, bonded product gross sales and employees coaching to supply international shoppers with “extra complete and extra skilled” luxurious companies.
As reported, Secoo, which claims to be Asia’s largest on-line built-in luxurious services and products platform, has a ten% stake in CNSC’s Nanjing downtown submit-arrivals responsibility free retailer.
The Secoo platform boasts over 36.5 million registered customers worldwide. Its classes embody clothes, sneakers, baggage, watches, jewelry and equipment.
Final month, Secco opened a 4,000sq m warehouse in the Hainan Yangpu Free Commerce Zone to supply companies for cross-border corporations on the island. Supporting buyer experiences will embody retail and eating.
Based on the corporate’s plan, Secoo’s excessive-finish clever manufacturing industrial park, masking an space of 20,000sq m, shall be accomplished and operational early subsequent yr.
With an eye fixed to enhancing buying experiences for Hainan’s residents and vacationers, Secoo plans to arrange buying and leisure centres in Haikou, Sanya, Danzhou and different areas in the following two years.
Via a ‘contact and purchase’ mannequin, Secoo mentioned it supplies prospects with a mixed on-line and offline expertise.
DFS and Shenzhen Responsibility Free cement strategic partnership
DFS Group and its longtime enterprise accomplice Shenzhen Responsibility Free Group right this moment signed a strategic settlement to cement their collaboration in Hainan. The settlement paves the best way for additional mutually useful alternatives.
The ceremony passed off on the Haikou International Conference and Exhibition Heart (click on right here for our full story) and was attended by representatives from each DFS and Shenzhen Responsibility Free in addition to from DFS’ majority shareholder LVMH Group.

DFS Group and Shenzhen Responsibility Free Group executives signal the strategic settlement to cement their collaboration in Hainan
FRIDAY 7 MAY
Shiseido unveils BAUM and THE GINZA at Pores and skin Stay Magnificence Studio Sales space

The Shiseido Pores and skin Magnificence Stay Studio blends collectively the Group’s sturdy foundations in high quality, expertise and innovation
Shiseido is debuting status skincare manufacturers BAUM and THE GINZA in the Chinese language home market on the Hainan Expo.
BAUM is a sustainable providing from Shiseido Group that helps wholesome pores and skin by harnessing “the facility of timber” with a deal with water storage, progress and environmental protection.
BAUM incorporates no parabens, silicones or artificial colorants, is packaged in upcycled advantageous-high quality oak from the Tohoku and Hokkaido areas, and participates in forest conservation actions throughout Japan. Primarily based on the Japanese idea of coexistence with nature, the model goals to understand a sustainable society that absolutely embraces the blessings of timber and preserves them for the long run.

Sustainable, status skincare model BAUM’s presentation house on the Shiseido Pores and skin Stay Studio
In the meantime, THE GINZA combines slicing-edge expertise with excessive-high quality elements to ship tailormade options, primarily based on pores and skin physiology, for all pores and skin sorts and issues.
Originating in 2002 from a excessive-finish boutique, THE GINZA infuses the subtle aesthetics of vogue with Shiseido science and expertise to raise naked pores and skin by way of unique formulation and excessive-efficiency merchandise. The model is woven with the DNA of Ginza – the birthplace of Shiseido.

Pictured above is the show space for minimalist, status skincare model THE GINZA
Shiseido’s presence additionally serves as a platform for reside occasions, interactive digital touchpoints, and digital buying experiences. The ‘Stay Studio’ idea includes a livestreaming room, internet hosting magnificence consultations, product demonstrations and model launches. It additionally includes a cross-border ecommerce zone.
The magnificence large’s ‘Pores and skin Magnificence Stay Studio’ sales space additionally commemorates the corporate’s fortieth anniversary in the China home market by way of a particular Company Zone.
The opening ceremony & technique presentation on the Shiseido Pores and skin Magnificence Stay Studio was offered by Shiseido China President & CEO Kentaro Fujiwara. The occasion was held in entrance of an audience of key Chinese language commerce delegates, authorities leaders and media stakeholders. To mark the event, Mr. Fujiwara took half in a memento present change ceremony with Hainan Provincial Individuals’s Congress Deputy Director of the Standing Committee Guan Jinping.

Hainan Provincial Individuals’s Congress Deputy Director of the Standing Committee Guan Jinping (left) and Shiseido China President and CEO Kentaro Fujiwara and participate in a memento present change on the opening ceremony

Shiseido China President & CEO Kentaro Fujiwara addresses a packed room

A particular Company Zone commemorates the fortieth anniversary of Shiseido getting into the Chinese language home market and showcases key merchandise from 13 manufacturers in the sweetness home’s numerous portfolio
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DFS reveals spectacular interactive journey
DFS Group right this moment revealed a surprising show exhibition for attendees on the inaugural China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) that runs from Could 7-10 in Haikou, Hainan province. The show takes guests on an interactive journey that showcases DFS’ famend international retailer community and world-main experience in luxurious by way of a collection of daring and extremely experiential areas.
Zones embody ‘The World of DFS’, a ‘DFS Timeline’, ‘Unique Manufacturers and Products’, ‘The Masters Room’ and ‘VIP Service Lounge’, every providing an perception into the posh retail experiences provided by DFS throughout its community.
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TMall International holds 2021 international accomplice signing occasion at Hainan Expo

TMall International signed 100 international companions through the signing and funding ceremony
Chinese language ecommerce large TMall hosted its 2021 international accomplice signing and funding ceremony on Day 1 of the Hainan Expo. The strategic cooperation covers greater than 100 main corporations together with Shiseido, Dr. Metropolis and Dashanxing. It goals to assist worldwide manufacturers maximise on-line alternatives in China.
TMall plans to speed up its globalisation through the TMall International Consumer Expo, set for 2022.
TMall International Head of International Funding Operations Li Lei mentioned, “Over the previous yr, outbound journey has stalled through the international pandemic and import consumption has accelerated on-line. The Chinese language market has recovered from the disaster and has turn out to be the primary marketplace for abroad manufacturers to actively search progress.”
TMall International at the moment sells over 29,000 abroad manufacturers from 87 nations, with 80% of these manufacturers getting into China for the primary time.
Swiss Nationwide Pavilion shines the sunshine of Swiss watchmaking craftsmanship
Switzerland is the nation of honour for the primary Hainan Expo and the Swiss Nationwide Pavilion highlights the newest merchandise and innovation from 26 main Swiss corporations and types.
The 1,000sq m pavilion was formally opened by Swiss Confederation President Man Parmelin, who underscored the significance of Switzerland’s bilateral relationship with China throughout his opening speech.
The three main companions for the Swiss Nationwide Pavilion are the Swatch group Swiss Nationwide Tourism Administration and Swiss Nationwide Picture Committee.
One of many highlights is the ‘Swiss Cross Dice,’ a platform for occasions and networking through the Expo.
Martin Moodie addresses Hainan Expo
The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie right this moment delivered a speech on the opening convention of the Hainan Expo.
His message was a part of a twin presentation with KPMG China as the 2 events launched a joint White Paper entitled ‘The Journey Retail Market in Hainan’s Free Commerce Port –In direction of A Golden Future.’
Moodie mentioned: “I’ve tracked the evolution of Hainan’s offshore responsibility free business since its earliest days. I visited the primary store in downtown Sanya when it opened in 2011; and eight years in the past I visited China Responsibility Free Group’s Sanya International Responsibility Free Purchasing Complicated in Hainan Bay when it was only a development web site. I’ve seen it bloom just like the begonia flower it’s modelled on and flourish as one of many world’s nice responsibility free retailers.

The tackle by Martin Moodie was considered by the massive audience attending the opening day of the vastly spectacular Hainan Expo
“I’ve witnessed the common enchancment to the offshore responsibility free buying rules, together with in fact the main enhancement to the coverage in July 2020. This was a recreation changer for the responsibility free and journey retail business not solely in Hainan however for the world.
“In 2020 Hainan grew to become the epicentre of the worldwide responsibility free business, a world lighthouse in a sector in any other case plunged into darkness.
“To honour this Expo and to underline Hainan’s emergence because the heartbeat of the worldwide responsibility free and journey retail business, The Moodie Davitt Report is delighted to have partnered with KPMG China to publish a White Paper devoted to assessing Hainan’s function inside the context of the worldwide responsibility free business.
“It’s an necessary research that underlines the triumph of presidency coverage – a professional-enterprise, pro-consumer, professional-Hainan coverage that has succeeded past all expectations. At present progress charges, the report concludes that Hainan may turn out to be the world’s greatest responsibility free market – a vastly spectacular achievement.
“The White Paper additionally underlines key areas of enchancment that can assist the responsibility free business right here in Hainan to ship on its progress projections. High quality have to be integral to growth – high quality of design, merchandising, employees, service and of digital execution.
“The subsequent large leap isn’t just financial. Hainan responsibility free should not merely goal to be the most important however the most effective. I consider Hainan can obtain that goal and march ahead to a golden future.”
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China Responsibility Free Group launches ‘unique advantages’ for Hainan Expo guests
China Responsibility Free Group has launched a number of unique advantages and perks for Expo guests throughout a number of places in Hainan from 7 – 10 Could.
China Responsibility Free Group’s Haikou Riyue Sq. Responsibility Free and Haikou Meilan Responsibility Free retailers are providing a -15% single merchandise low cost and -20% low cost on three objects. The retailer can also be providing single product flash gross sales with reductions as much as -40% and releasing RMB1000 vouchers on its WeChat official account.
As well as, the Riyue Sq. Responsibility Free Purchasing Mall has prolonged its working hours and launched its personal Consumer Honest with free shuttle bus companies to the Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Centre, the place the Hainan Expo is being held.

1000’s of RMB100 vouchers are redeemable at 5 completely different China Responsibility Free Group places in Hainan
China Responsibility Free Group has additionally launched no-threshold RMB100 consumer vouchers, redeemable at 5 completely different CDFG places in Hainan and in terminals exterior of the island. Based on Hinews, the transfer reinforces the retailer’s dedication to the native authorities’s ‘New Consumption Mannequin, Stunning and New Hainan’ programme and goals to spice up home twin-cycle consumption.

South Korea is the nation with essentially the most taking part manufacturers with 124 exhibitors. France follows with 99 exhibitors, then Japan with 89
Hainan Expo welcomes nearly 10,000 exhibitors
As reported by Hinews, the Hainan Expo welcomes nearly 10,000 home and worldwide exhibitors and expects to host greater than 200,000 guests. This consists of almost 1,000 journalists from each home and overseas media.
The Hainan Expo serves as a showcase for 600 worldwide exhibiting corporations and 1,365 manufacturers from 69 completely different nations in the worldwide exhibition zone (60,000sq m)
A few of the excessive-profile worldwide exhibitors from the posh, vogue, jewelry, magnificence, car, meals and beverage and life-style classes embody: LVMH Group, Kering Group, L’Oréal Group, Richemont Group, Nestlé, Shiseido Group, Martell, and Jaguar amongst many others.
Switzerland is the nation of honour for the primary Hainan Expo and the Swiss Nationwide Pavilion highlights the newest merchandise and innovation from 26 main Swiss corporations and types.
The Hainan Expo can also be highlighting the facility of Chinese language manufacturers. The home exhibition zone (20,000 sq m) welcomes 800 Chinese language corporations and 1,263 native manufacturers.
They arrive from 31 provinces, autonomous areas and municipalities below the Beijing Central Authorities, Xinjiang Manufacturing and Development Companies. This consists of two separate teams from Xiamen and Dalian.
A few of the high-high quality Chinese language manufacturers featured embody Huawei, Gree, Haikang, iFlytek, FAW Hongqi, Kweichow Moutai, Wuliangye, Tongrentang and Pien Tze Huang amongst many others.
The home exhibition zone additionally options the Hainan pavilion which covers 810sq m and highlights Hainan’s greatest retail shops and types.
Hainan in a brand new mild
A tremendous mild present, that includes 1111 drones flying over the Atlantis Sanya, was hosted by Hainan Hinews Media Firm and Hainan Know-how Firm final evening to have fun the opening of the Hainan Expo.
Opening ceremony dazzles
Courtesy of Expo organiser Hainan Provincial Bureau of International Financial Improvement (Hainan IEDB), we deliver you these spectacular photos of yesterday’s official opening ceremony and of the magnificent Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Heart.
Meet The Moodie Davitt Report’s Hainan colleague

The Moodie Davitt Report’s colleagues at our strategic native accomplice, Hainan Hinews Media Firm, are offering complete protection of the Expo, together with reside broadcasts. Hinews anchor and reporter Lu Tian Qin, who’s working carefully with The Moodie Davitt Report Chairman Martin Moodie on the collaborative protection of the occasion, is pictured on the proper.
Tremendous celeb Viya to make visitor look
Vastly common livestreaming celeb Viya (薇娅) will make a particular visitor look on the Hainan Expo, reviews Zhong Yuanyuan of Hinews.com (a part of The Moodie Davitt Report’s strategic accomplice, Hainan Hinews Media Firm).
As reported, Expo organiser, the Hainan Provincial Bureau of International Financial Improvement (Hainan IEDB) signed Viya late final yr to advertise the occasion. Viya introduced throughout a web-based media convention yesterday that she’s going to take shoppers on a tour of the Expo in a livstream this night (7 Could).
“We’re trying ahead to seeing new, distinctive and excessive-high quality merchandise throughout this journey to the Consumer Expo,” she mentioned.
Viya mentioned that reside broadcasting will permit an enormous consumer audience to shortly find out about new manufacturers and merchandise showcased on the Expo. “Hopefully, by way of the chance of the Expo, Chinese language shoppers can find out about new merchandise, whereas overseas manufacturers can higher perceive the wants of Chinese language shoppers,” she mentioned.
Not like her common format, proven from a broadcast room, Viya will host the livestream from the Expo corridor. Viya has a detailed relationship with Hainan. In addition to her ambassador function with the Expo she can also be the general public welfare promotion ambassador of the Hainan Free Commerce Port International Funding Service Hotline.
“The growth of the Free Commerce Port will deliver new growth alternatives to ecommerce reside broadcasts,” she instructed journalists, including that she hopes that in the long run by way of livestreaming, viewers can purchase high merchandise from everywhere in the world in Hainan.
In a recent profile, SupChina described Viya’s livestreaming reputation as “staggering”. Certainly it’s, Bloomberg reported that she will draw extra viewers – 37 million this Could — than the finales of Sport of Thrones, Breaking Unhealthy, and the newest season of The Bachelor.
“She’s made extra revenue in one day (Single’s Day 2019, US$385 million) than Aston Martin does in one yr. She’s offered every thing — automotive fresheners and GM rice, noodles and homes, razors and rockets (designed to launch satellites into orbit),” the title notes.
Her reputation has soared through the COVID-19 disaster. Viewing figures for her night present – Taobao’s most-watched ecommerce livestream — doubled throughout China’s COVID-19 lockdown.
Jing Daily reported that Viya is not going to function a product in her reside stream except it has been rigorously examined by her and her staff. Each day, previous to her streams, she spends round 4 hours testing and reviewing merchandise to be featured, and solely along with her final permission can a product be added to the road-up, the title reported. On 10 October 2019, she broke her personal gross sales report as soon as once more, producing revenues of round US$49.7 million in a single day.
Photos of an Exhibition
A packed Hainan Expo has obtained off to a spectacular begin right this moment. At a time when the Conferences, Incentive, Conferences & Exhibitions (MICE) sector is on its knees worldwide, the Hainan Expo is being attended by 630 abroad corporations with over 1,200 manufacturers from 69 nations, a consequence that underlines the rising significance of Hainan to a variety of enterprise sectors, together with journey retail and luxurious.
“To date, all people is tremendous pleased,” Hainan IEDB International Media Officer Ruslan Tulenov instructed The Moodie Davitt Report. “There are numerous folks exhibiting — so very many.”
In addition to an influence-packed presence from lots of the world’s most well-known manufacturers, over 1,200 high Chinese language manufacturers are participating.
The Expo includes a 20,000sq m home exhibition space with delegations from throughout the nation, in addition to two delegations from Xiamen Metropolis and Dalian Metropolis.
Hainan Expo to turn out to be annual occasion
In huge breaking information, we are able to reveal that the China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) is to turn out to be an annual occasion. Dates for subsequent yr’s occasion are nonetheless to be finalised however the spectacular success of the 2020 version, a triumph regardless of the worldwide pandemic, has assured the Expo’s future, The Moodie Davitt Report has realized.
Lara’s Expo Talks
South African nationwide, Lara Netherlands, an anchor with Hainan International Communication Community (HICN) – Hainan’s largest multi-lingual internet portal in Hainan and a part of The Moodie Davitt Report’s native strategic accomplice Hainan Hinews Media Firm – is internet hosting a collection of Expo-related interviews this week known as Lara’s Expo Talks with main business figures.
Right here we function her interview with DFS Group Vice President of Technique and Enterprise Improvement, Keith Tam. We’ll function Lara’s interview with The Moodie Davitt Report Chairman Martin Moodie quickly.
“Now we have huge plans for Hainan,” Tam says. “We’re working with our companions Shenzhen Responsibility Free on their shops in Mission Hills in Haikou. So we’re including manufacturers on the property. On the similar time, we’re eyeing extra places throughout Hainan to construct a flagship retailer.”
Requested what advantages exhibiting on the Hainan Expo will deliver DFS, Tam replies: “We’re identified extra so exterior of China. I’m positive a number of Chinese language shoppers after they journey exterior, internationally, would discover our shops a technique or one other.
“Sadly, our presence in China is definitely very restricted. So we wish to use this chance to inform the consumer in China who we’re; what are the shops that we’ve all over the world; what are our specialties; and the kind of elevated surroundings that we create for retail. So we need to use this chance to inform the folks in China and in Hainan what DFS is all about and our story.”
Whereas the Hainan Expo is focused at a variety of enterprise sectors, responsibility free & journey retail types an integral component of the occasion with all of China’s main retailers visiting and several other exhibiting. Lots of the sector’s main manufacturers, too, are exhibiting, making the occasion the most important journey retail occurring of 2021. It’s going down, in fact, in journey retail’s hottest market, underlining why we’re devoting such complete protection over the following few days.

The Moodie Davitt Report’s native accomplice in Hainan, Hainan Hinews Media Co, is presenting reside protection from the Expo. We are going to deliver you highlights of their protection over the following 4 days.

Shenzhen Media Group is devoting reside protection to the occasion. The publishing home interviewed The Moodie Davitt Report Chairman Martin Moodie on the eve of the Expo yesterday. The interview shall be broadcast this morning.
The #Hainan Expo corridor shall be filled with a few of the greatest names in responsibility free.The Expo covers some 80,000 sq. meters of house on the magnificent Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Heart and features a 20,000 sq. meter home exhibition space. pic.twitter.com/I483PtRxin
— 海南之声VoiceofHainan (@voiceofhainan) May 3, 2021
Beijing hopes the inaugural #HainanExpo can improve the standing of Hainan’s FTP and promote the federal government’s excessive degree of opening as much as the skin world. However why was this southern island province chosen and what can abroad corporations and home shoppers count on from the Expo? pic.twitter.com/hVZzXjM8T5
— Serena Dong (@theserenadong) May 6, 2021
Streets across the Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Heart in Haikou, #Hainan province have been embellished by colourful flowers💮🌺🌼 akin to globe amaranth, French marigold and plums for the upcoming China International Consumer Products Expo. #HainanExpo pic.twitter.com/207yLZfMC7
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The Could Day vacation and the upcoming first International Prospects Products Expo raised huge site visitors calls for. 9 airways and a enterprise jet firm on the Haikou Meilan International Airport elevated their transportation capability to satisfy the wants. #holiday #traffic #airport pic.twitter.com/uORZ6y9oDf
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President Xi Jinping sends greatest needs
The China International Consumer Products Expo is an occasion of each regional and nationwide significance, the latter borne out by a message of goodwill despatched by President Xi Jinping on the eve of the present.
08.25: In 5 minutes the doorways to the inaugural China International Consumer Products Expo will swing open, an historic second for Hainan and for China. We’re bringing you information because it occurs from the occasion.

Prepared for take-off: Guests wait expectantly exterior the doorways of the magnificent Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Heart
THURSDAY 6 MAY
Magic second nears as Expo will get set for opening
There are simply hours to go earlier than the inaugural China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) begins in Haikou on the magnificent Hainan International Conference And Exhibition Heart. Look out for our protection from the occasion tomorrow.
‘Hainan Island, a brand new watchmaking El Dorado’
‘Hainan Island, a brand new watchmaking El Dorado’ runs the headline in Le Temps, one among Switzerland’s main media titles, which devotes main protection to the Hainan Expo right this moment.
“This tropical Chinese language island has turn out to be a haven for watch gross sales battered by the pandemic,” wrote reporter Julie Zaugg
Switzerland is the official Visitor Nation of Honour on the Expo and Baume & Mercier the Official Timekeeper.
The article included an interview with The Moodie Davitt Report Chairman Martin Moodie who mentioned that Hainan’s offshore responsibility free success (gross sales reached round US$5 billion final yr and are anticipated to climb by at the least +80% this yr) was vindication of the Chinese language authorities’s push to maximise home consumption and repatriate Chinese language buying spending from overseas.
Moodie mentioned that the improved responsibility free buying coverage launched final July had given large impetus to the sector at a time when the worldwide journey retail channel discovered itself in deep turmoil as a result of pandemic.
TUESDAY 4 MAY
Foliday Chairman Qian Jiannong on the Hainan alternative
Hinews anchor and reporter Lu Tian Qin shall be reporting reside from the Hainan Expo for the varied digital titles below the Hainan Hinews Media Firm banner and likewise offering common protection for The Moodie Davitt Report.
On this interview Tian Qin talks to Qian Jiannong, Chairman of Fosun-owned Foliday.
As reported, Hong Kong Inventory Change-listed Fosun Group is bringing a cluster of world-famend consumer manufacturers to take part in the Hainan Expo. Fosun operates three enterprise strains throughout Well being, Happiness and Wealth, the place it enjoys a strong multi-sector presence in Hainan and China typically.

Qian Jiannong (left) discusses the prospects for Foliday in Hainan with Tian Qin
Throughout his interview, Qian Jiannong revealed that Fosun Group plans to develop a second resort challenge throughout from its famend Sanya Atlantis resort, which opened in 2018. The two resorts will mix to turn out to be often called a brand new model, Foliday City.
Foliday City shall be promoted alongside different Foliday leisure and vacation manufacturers on the China International Consumer Products Expo, together with ClubMed, Atlantis and scenic attraction administration model, Albion.
Talking about Foliday City, Qian Jiannong talked of it enjoying a component in “a brighter, larger high quality life [which] displays the improve in Chinese language shoppers’ calls for”.
He mentioned: “So the query is how you can meet quickly altering consumer calls for in the long run. Because of this, we have to maintain upgrading our merchandise. What Foliday values essentially the most about Hainan’s market is that it’ll not be restricted to [being] a single tourism vacation spot for leisure and holidays in the long run however shall be a broader buying and selling platform.”
Of the responsibility free business, he mentioned that it “had an amazing impact on the event of Hainan’s financial system, which features a important progress of tourism and spending”.
Qian Jiannong added that Foliday has began to cooperate with a few of the licensed responsibility free corporations. He mentioned: “I consider that an increasing number of responsibility free licenses [will be] granted and extra enterprises enter market competitors, particularly after 2025 when the entire island is responsibility free. The complete province of Hainan could turn out to be one other buying paradise for the Chinese language folks.”
Trying ahead to the Expo, Qian Jiannong mentioned: “The China International Consumer Products Expo isn’t solely an necessary means for China to develop Hainan into a world tourism and buying centre but additionally supplies a world platform for the huge variety of enterprises in Hainan.
“On the premise of Hainan’s present business distribution, Fosun Group will proceed to work to advertise each extra spending and an improved business construction.”
Voucher provide to underline responsibility free attraction
As a part of a sector-vast promotion of the Expo, Hainan’s 9 responsibility free retailers will collectively provide a million consumption vouchers value some RMB50 million (US$7.73 million) from 1-31 Could, the Hainan Provincial Bureau of International Financial Improvement (Hainan IEDB) reported.
The vouchers shall be distributed in units value RM865 (US$134). Every can be utilized to buy a variety of products from the island’s offshore responsibility free retailers, together with perfumes & cosmetics, liquor, jewelry and watches, consumer expertise, toys, vogue and equipment.
Purchasing enhance for Expo guests
The Chinese language authorities have unveiled a tax-exempt programme for a number of classes of imported items that shall be offered on the first China International Consumer Products Expo, reviews the Hainan Provincial Bureau of International Financial Improvement (Hainan IEDB).
Throughout the occasion, some imported items classes that shall be offered on the Expo are exempt from import customs duties, worth added tax and gross sales tax. Responsibility free coverage will apply to furnishings, clothes, leathergoods, fur and fake fur, journey items, baggage and containers, optical tools, photographic tools, pure and cultured pearls, valuable and semiprecious stones, valuable metals and merchandise created from them, in addition to watches.
The predominant purpose of the responsibility free coverage is to reinforce Hainan’s openness to the world, enhance the picture of the island, and promote the development of Hainan’s Free Commerce Port
The regime is not going to apply to endangered animals and crops, in addition to merchandise created from them, tobacco, alcohol and automobiles. Exhibitors promoting responsibility free items shall be topic to quotas set for every particular product class.
MONDAY 3 MAY
Chinese language manufacturers to the fore
Over 1,200 high Chinese language manufacturers have confirmed their participation in the upcoming China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo), Hainan International Media Heart* reviews.
The Expo will present a superb alternative for these high-high quality manufacturers to achieve a wider audience. The first Hainan Expo will function a 20,000sq m home exhibition space with delegations from throughout the nation, in addition to two delegations from Xiamen Metropolis and Dalian Metropolis. Because the host province, Hainan shall be showcasing the bounty of the island, with agarwood, rosewood, Li brocades, and lots of extra excessive-finish agricultural and hello-tech merchandise.
*A part of Hainan Hinews Media Co

Contained in the magnificent Hainan International Conference And Exhibition Heart, work is happening across the clock to make sure the Hainan Expo is prepared for opening day [Photo: Hainan International Media Center]
SUNDAY 2 MAY
“Large progress” forecast for Hainan fragrances market
Hinews anchor and report Lu Tian Qin shall be reporting reside from the Hainan Expo for the varied digital titles below the Hainan Hinews Media Firm banner and likewise offering common protection for The Moodie Davitt Report.
On this interview she talks to Everlasting Optical & Perfumery (Far East) Journey Retail Director Lucy Track. The Hong Kong firm is a number one omnichannel model administration and distribution in China, specialised in the sweetness & eyewear classes throughout Hong Kong, Macau and Mainland China.

Lu Tian Qin (above) is one among Hainan’s high media personalities. She shall be offering common protection for each Hinews and The Moodie Davitt Report through the Expo.
Everlasting Optical & Perfumery will take part in the Expo and showcase perfume manufacturers akin to Anna Sui, Chopard, Moschino, MCM and 4711.
Chinese language readers can view the programme on WeChat right here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4Mq2vtop76CgFsSAVHkHjg
To view on YouTube click on on the picture under.
“Because the spending energy of Chinese language folks has risen, the Chinese language perfume market has grown stronger and stronger,” says Track. “On the similar time it has developed its personal traits.
“Persons are actually drawn to magnificence. Irrespective of whether it is in a traditional field or in a fragrance bottle, design is of significant significance. The scent isn’t essentially the highest cause to decide on. When folks use a perfume it might assist them keep in mind pleased experiences, particularly for younger shoppers who use social media. Social media has an enormous affect. And it’s a strategy to domesticate shoppers.
“Perfumes in China have multiplied extremely shortly. It isn’t solely conventional fragrances but additionally a number of area of interest perfumes and salon fragrances are starting to achieve widespread reputation.”
Talking in regards to the Hainan offshore responsibility free market, Track mentioned: “Everybody is aware of the responsibility free world seems to China. We hope that there shall be much more responsibility free gross sales channels in the Free Commerce Port in the long run and that with Hainan’s new insurance policies we are able to additional develop the channel.
“There have been fairly quite a few Hainan Free Commerce Port insurance policies handed, that are bringing an increasing number of proficient folks to Hainan. So irrespective of in case you’re speaking in regards to the responsibility free market or the consumer [domestic] market, we consider that in the long run there shall be huge progress.”
Fosun launches new division
Hong Kong Inventory Change-listed Fosun Group is bringing a cluster of world-famend consumer manufacturers to take part in the Hainan Expo. Fosun operates three enterprise strains throughout Well being, Happiness and Wealth, the place it enjoys a strong multi-sector presence in Hainan and China typically.
The Hainan Expo will see the debut of the Fosun Journey & Tradition Retail division.
Fosun International Chairman Guo Guangchang underlined the group’s dedication to Hainan and the island’s Free Commerce Port programme. “For the long run, Fosun will… additional enlarge its ecological hyperlinks between well being, happiness, wealth, and sensible manufacturing, and use our benefits in the worldwide provide chain system to repeatedly increase and deepen cooperation with Hainan in multi-business fields,” he mentioned.
The group can even spotlight its Sanya Tourism 3.0 benchmark challenge, Atlantis Sanya, opened in 2018.
Shiseido presents a grand showcase
Shiseido Firm Restricted shall be showcasing new manufacturers, strains and applied sciences with its expansive presence on the inaugural China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) from 7 to 10 Could.
Because the demand for status merchandise and home journey continues to rise, Shiseido has enhanced cross-border collaboration between its China and journey retail companies.
Shiseido mentioned that its participation on the pioneering consumer occasion reinforces alongside-time period dedication to China and notably to the journey retail hotspot of Hainan.
The ‘Shiseido Pores and skin Magnificence Stay Studio’ is a devoted 500sq m house that can spotlight the corporate’s newest product improvements and applied sciences from the 13 manufacturers in its portfolio. It additionally commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the sweetness large’s entrance into the Chinese language home market and showcases the group’s newest sustainability initiatives.
Shiseido can also be debuting two new status skincare manufacturers for the primary time in the Chinese language home market, Baum and The Ginza, which shall be showcased in devoted show areas.
For the total Shiseido Hainan Expo story, click on right here.
LVMH manufacturers make a powerful exhibiting
French luxurious items powerhouse LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) is making a strong assertion about its dedication to Hainan and China with an intensive presence on the China International Consumer Products Expo (Hainan Expo) which runs from 7 to 10 Could.
LVMH homes DFS Group, Hublot and Moët Hennessy have curated spectacular stands for the pioneering occasion. See full story right here.