4 | Monday, July 5, 2021 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Beat the heat Emergency Policies help system keeping fuel duty-free Wuhan safe By TAN YINGZI in Wuhan hub hopes [email protected] On the Monday morning after the Labor Day holiday in May, Wuhan Tianhe International Airport was Shopping boom continues in Hainan still busy, with thousands of passen- with major spikes in customers, sales gers from home and abroad arriving in and departing the city, which has returned to normal after being hit By MA ZHIPING in Haikou enthusiasm among consumers, hard by the COVID-19 pandemic [email protected] said Xie Xiangxiang, an associate last year. professor of tourism at Hainan During the five-day holiday, pas- The duty-free shopping boom University. senger numbers averaged 79,000 a has picked up momentum in Hain- “Duty-free shopping is becom- day, up about 9 percent year-on- an province as fine-tuned national ing the new blockbuster growth year, the airport said. policies turn the resort island into point for Hainan’s tourism indus- Rush-hour traffic jams have a duty-free shopping hub, officials try and for the development of returned to the streets of the city, and experts said. Hainan as an international tour- which is home to more than 10 mil- Offshore duty-free sales reaped ism center,” he said. lion people, and its crawfish restau- 46.8 billion yuan ($7.2 billion) in According to the master plan, People have fun in the water near a scenic site in the town of Huanglongxi in suburban Chengdu, rants are packed at night with the 12 months to June 30 in Hainan, China will build Hainan into a glo- Sichuan province, on Sunday. With the temperature hitting nearly 34 C for several days, cooling diners eager to taste the seasonal surging 226 percent year-on-year, bally influential and high-level down become a popular activity in the area. ZHANG LANG / CHINA NEWS SERVICE delicacy. customs officials in Haikou, the free trade port by the middle of the Wuhan’s public health emergency provincial capital, said on Saturday. century. command system has helped life in The nine duty-free shops in Feng Fei, governor of Hainan, the city return to normal. Hainan received a total of more said duty-free sales networks “Our public health emergency than 6.28 million customers, a around the island will be expand- command system plays an impor- year-on-year increase of 102 per- ed to better meet domestic Alliance targets mental health of children tant role in regular epidemic pre- cent, and sold more than 60 mil- demand for imported goods dur- vention and control to ensure the lion duty-free items, up 211 ing the 14th Five-Year Plan period By ZHOU WENTING in Shanghai mental problems in Shanghai. She Zhang said that teachers and resumption of work and social percent. Customers spent most of (2021-25), with sales of duty-free [email protected] said most hospitals treat adult cas- parents usually pay more attention development,” said Zuo Xiuran, the their money on cosmetics, watches goods expected to reach 300 bil- es but lack experience in dealing to children’s behavior rather than system’s technology team leader. and jewelry, according to customs lion yuan over the next five years. The Yangtze River Delta Region with juveniles. their emotions. “Over 10,000 people work for the officials. The offshore duty-free policy Children and Adolescents’ Mental Within the alliance, experts from “But very often, problematic system around the clock to safe- On July 1 last year, Hainan raised was introduced on April 20, 2011, Health Enhancement Alliance was the children’s psychology depart- behavior such as skipping school guard the peaceful life of Wuhan its annual tax-free shopping quota to boost development of the island recently established in Shanghai, ment at Xinhua Hospital and the comes from their emotions when people.” from 30,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan as an international tourist destina- aiming to help youths manage children and adolescents depart- they encounter a difficult situation On Jan 20 last year, President per person, lifting the previous tax- tion. It has been continuously their emotions and stress levels ment at the Shanghai Mental — for example, a conflict with a Xi Jinping gave important free limit of 8,000 yuan for a single adjusted and expanded in terms of when dealing with others. Health Center have teamed up to classmate,” she said. instructions on fighting the novel product and raising the duty-free individual duty-free shopping Experts from the alliance, based design mental health intervention Children aged between 7 and 12 coronavirus. He emphasized that purchase limit for cosmetics from quotas and the range and number at Xinhua Hospital in Shanghai, plans for children in kindergar- screened for emotional and behav- people’s lives and health must 12 to 30 items. The categories of of items on sale to cater to the said there has been a rising need tens, primary schools and middle ioral issues accounted for between come first, and resolute efforts duty-free goods have been expand- needs of tourists, provincial gov- for children to obtain psychologi- schools in line with their ages. 4.7 percent and nearly 26 percent of should be taken to stem the ed from 38 to 45, with new products ernment officials said. cal support over the past few years “The participants will learn how all children exhibiting such prob- spread of the virus. such as wine, mobile phones and Hainan has sold about 98 bil- and that the COVID-19 pandemic is to help children recognize and lems, according to research The system started operation in laptops added. lion yuan of duty-free goods in one of the main reasons behind an understand their own emotions and released by the Shanghai Mental February last year, Zuo said. Hainan introduced mail delivery the past 10 years. During that increase in mental health prob- deal with various situations, such as Health Center in 2018. Since then, she and her 100 or so services for tourists to the island in time, more than 25 million people lems. conflicts between peers, academic The alliance will hold seminars, team members have been working early February, in addition to the shopped, and about 120 million Sixty-three hospitals and some pressure, conflicts with parents and workshops and lectures online and day and night to build an antivirus original option of airport pickup items were sold, according to offi- teachers in charge of students’ men- public emergencies, in appropriate offline every month for more than information network to deal with when leaving the island. Since its cial statistics. tal health from educational institu- and positive ways,” Zhang said. 100 front-line doctors who are the public health emergency. official launch, the Hainan branch With the new shopping policy tions in Shanghai and the provinces She explained that some chil- members to help them screen and It took about a year to upgrade of China Post has mailed more giving tremendous impetus to of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui dren may suffer from violent emo- treat children with mental challen- and complete the system, with a than 2.08 million duty-free items overseas brands, the Hainan FTP became inaugural members of the tional outbursts while taking more ges. total investment of about 100 mil- for 231,000 customers. The meas- will likely become the world’s big- alliance. They hope to provide early classes online and spending more Zhang said that the teachers in lion yuan ($15.6 million) from spe- ures have boosted duty-free sales, gest duty-free market in the near detection and intervention for chil- time at home with parents due to the alliance will be asked to pass on cial government bonds for COVID- local post office officials said. future if the growth momentum dren who have psychological diffi- the pandemic. skills to those in charge of students’ 19 control measures, Wuhan’s As part of the master plan for the continues, according to a report culties and improve the overall Research conducted by Xinhua psychological health in schools. health commission said. construction of the Hainan Free jointly released by KPMG China mental health of those under 18. Hospital showed that children suf- “We remind parents and schools Combining China’s antivirus Trade Port released by the central and the Moodie Davitt Report at Zhang Jinsong, director of the fering from attention deficit hyper- to pay attention to children’s holis- experience and the latest informa- government last year, the newly the first China International Con- clinical psychology department at activity disorder experienced a tic, long-term development and tion technology, such as big data, adjusted duty-free shopping poli- sumer Products Expo, which was Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to deterioration in their emotional help them learn to adapt to social cloud computing, the internet of cies have sparked remarkable held in Haikou in May. Shanghai Jiao Tong University states, had more conflicts with changes and new environments things, artificial intelligence and 5G, School of Medicine, said there are their parents and increasingly instead of encouraging them to the system can monitor and currently fewer than 20 psychia- struggled to focus amid the pan- focus only on academic learning respond to almost all public health trists specializing in children’s demic. and competitions,” she said. emergencies. It has four core functions: intelli- gent risk alert, emergency com- mand and dispatch, coordinated prevention and control, and data Didi removed from application stores analysis. “In the past, epidemic informa- Didi, a popular ride-hailing app, made in accordance with the information and data, protect tion was only collected and report- was removed from application Cybersecurity Law.