Programme

“By 2050, the Chinese province of Hainan is targeted to become a unique international cluster with a mondernized economy, an FTZ, campuses of the most renowned universities, state-of-the-art scientific laboratories and the headquarters of global corporations,” according to the Communist Party Committee of the Hainan Province. Party members will present the investment and business opportunities offered by the island to the SPIEF participants, and explain how Hainan Province, China’s largest experimental FTZ, has fast tracked the construction of its free trade port.

Questions for discussion with participants of the presentation:

· What is unique about the Hainan Free Trade Zone (Port)?

· How can we open a company in Hainan today and get support from the Hainan administration?

· Business climate: how can foreign business overcome cultural and legal barriers?

· Which niche should a business in Hainan choose and why?

The event will also see the official opening ceremony of the special project ‘Charming Hainan – Island of Opportunity’ on the official website of the TASS Russian news agency.

Moderator
Nikolay Yakovlev, Director, Press Centre, Russian News Agency TASS

Nikolay Yakovlev

Director, Press Centre, Russian News Agency TASS

Panellists
Marat Abulkhatin, First Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS
Wu Bin, Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee
Fu Wei, Deputy Head of the Information Bureau of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee
Sun Dahai, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Party Committee; Deputy Head of the Office of the Committee for the Comprehensive deepening of Reforms; Deputy Head of the Office of the Working Committee on the Experimental Free Trade Zone of Hainan Province
Andrey Sokolov, Deputy Director General, TASS Russia

Marat Abulkhatin

First Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Russian News Agency TASS

Wu Bin

Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee

Fu Wei

Deputy Head of the Information Bureau of the Publicity Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee

Sun Dahai

Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Party Committee; Deputy Head of the Office of the Committee for the Comprehensive deepening of Reforms; Deputy Head of the Office of the Working Committee on the Experimental Free Trade Zone of Hainan Province

Andrey Sokolov

Deputy Director General, TASS Russia

Andrei Sokolov was born on February 15, 1976 in Mytishchi, Moscow Region. 1997: graduated from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in marketing. 2001 to 2014: worked at the Ministry of the Economic Development of the Russian Federation.2014 to 2015: worked at the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Crimean Affairs.Since December 2015: Assistant General Director of the TASS news agency. Has been involved in the develoment and implementation of the following programmes: Government programme of the Russian Federation “Socioeconomic develoment of the Far East and the Baikal Region”; Government programme of the Russian Federation “Development of the North Caucasus Federal District” for the period up to 2025; Government programme “Accessible environment” for the period from 2011 to 2015; Federal target programme “Economic and social development of the Far East and the Baikal Region for the period up to 2018’; Federal target programme “Socioeconomic develoment of the Kuril Islands (Sakhalin Region) from 2016 to 2025”; Federal target programme “Socioeconomic development of the Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol up to 2020”; Federal target programme “Development of physical culture and sports in the Russian Federation from 2016 to 2020”; Federal target programme “Development of domestic and inbound tourism in the Russian Federation (2011 to 2018)”; Awards: Honourary Certificate of the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation (2004), Honourary Certificate of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009), award pin “For merit” (2011) and others.