Hainan Industrial Economy New Perspective: Building a Quality-Strong Province

China News Service Haikou, March 19 — (Reporter Zhang Qianyi) At the Hainan Province Quality Conference held in Haikou on March 19, three companies—Hainan Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Hainan Jinpan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and Hainan Osk International Grain and Oil Co., Ltd.—were awarded the Third Hainan Provincial Government Quality Award, setting a benchmark for quality management across various industries in Hainan.

As the main body of quality development, enterprises are the backbone of Hainan’s efforts to build a strong quality province. Over the past five years, Hainan has integrated the strategy of strengthening quality into the overall plan for free trade port construction, achieving breakthrough progress in building a quality province.

Innovatively launched the “Quality Loan,” with a total of 17.2 billion yuan disbursed; ecological and environmental quality remains among the top nationwide; established one national quality inspection center and two key national market regulation laboratories; pioneered the record-filing system for overseas certification bodies, with eight foreign agencies established; cultivated a batch of geographically indicated brands such as “Sanya Mango” and “Wenchang Chicken,” and upgraded the “Hainan Fresh Products” brand; modern seed industry, commercial aerospace, and deep processing of tropical agricultural products have been included in national key projects for quality chain enhancement; Haikou’s Longhua District was approved as a national pilot for quality county cultivation… These advances during the 14th Five-Year Plan period demonstrate new breakthroughs in Hainan’s construction of a quality province.

However, challenges remain, including insufficient investment in quality infrastructure, a shortage of high-end talent, weak quality management among small and medium-sized enterprises, regional disparities in quality development, and limited application of advanced quality management tools and methods. Hainan Vice Governor Li Feng stated that Hainan must comprehensively promote institutional openness through standards and rules, accelerate the development of an open, eco-friendly, innovative industrial system, and deepen the construction of a quality-strong province.

Prioritizing high-standard quality development to serve high-level opening-up, accelerating reforms in quality, efficiency, and driving forces, cultivating new competitive advantages in quality for the Hainan Free Trade Port, has become a new requirement for the current phase of building a quality province.

As the island’s closed-loop operation enters a critical stage, standards, metrology, certification, and accreditation are becoming universal international rules. As a convergence point of dual circulation, Hainan must benchmark against international standards, promote mutual recognition and connectivity, and build a quality infrastructure aligned with its open status, enhancing rule-making discourse power and serving the national opening-up strategy.

Under the context of a unified national market, promoting quality collaboration through chain thinking and building cluster-based quality management systems are trends. Hainan’s quality supply still faces prominent gaps; focusing on the “45432” development framework, it is necessary to create collaborative, shared, and co-creative circles for quality improvement.

There is still a gap between product and service quality and public expectations, with occasional tourism and consumption public opinion issues. Building a high-quality consumption hub is urgent. New business formats post-closure bring new risks; quality governance must shift from passive response to proactive prevention, with strict standards, strengthened supervision, and improved services to meet the public’s demand for high-quality life.

Looking toward the “14th Five-Year Plan,” Hainan’s officials have proposed that by 2030, the effectiveness of quality reform and innovation will be fully unleashed, economic development quality and benefits will significantly improve, product, engineering, and service quality will rank among the top nationwide, and the construction of a quality-strong province will achieve leapfrog development—providing strong support for building a world-influential, characteristic free trade port with Chinese features.

When quality prospers, all industries thrive; when a quality-strong province is built, the free trade port becomes stronger. Focusing on the “Three Zones and One Center” strategic positioning of the free trade port, and aiming to build an “important gateway for opening-up,” Hainan has clarified its goals for this year: to lead openness with quality, support industries with quality, serve development with quality, and benefit the people and enterprises with quality, steadily advancing the construction of a quality-strong province.

In the first year of the new phase, Hainan has a clear “construction blueprint”: deepening efforts to strengthen enterprises, chains, and counties; advancing excellence in manufacturing quality projects; accelerating the creation of regional public brands in the consumer sector; shaping Hainan’s quality reputation; fully implementing quality improvement actions; upgrading product quality; enhancing engineering and service quality; maintaining ecological and environmental quality at the national forefront; strengthening quality infrastructure support; establishing a technical standards system that adapts proactively to international trade rules and institutional openness; accelerating modernization of quality governance to support the construction of a unified national market; and continuously optimizing the quality development environment to foster a strong atmosphere where “everyone values, creates, and enjoys quality.” (End)