Spring of joy for sales

TheStar Mon, Feb 22, 2021 10:00am - 3 years View Original

Thriving: Customers visit a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China’s Hainan province. Two new offshore duty-free shops opened recently in Haikou, raising the number of duty-free shops in the province to nine. — Xinhua

BEIJING: Duty-free shops in Hainan province saw sales of 1.5 billion yuan (US$232mil) during the Spring Festival shopping spree, double the figure for the Spring Festival holiday in 2019.

From Feb 11, Lunar New Year’s eve, to Wednesday, sales at Hainan’s nine duty-free shops reached 1.5 billion yuan, 1.4 billion yuan of which was for duty-free goods, official data showed.

The stores welcomed more than 200,000 visitors over the holiday period, and many of the visitors tried the new “mail and delivery” shopping service, which was introduced on Feb 2.

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