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Wang Changlin, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), announced that the free trade port will launch island-wide independent customs operation on December 18, 2025. The proportion of tariff lines with zero-tariff products in Hainan Free Trade Port will increase from 21 percent to 74 percent.
On June 10, 2021, the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress passed the Hainan Free Trade Port Law of the People's Republic of China, which determined to establish and improve the Hainan Free Trade Port customs supervision special zone system with closed-off customs operations on the entire island.
An aerial drone photo shows a duty-free shopping mall in Sanya, South China's Hainan province, May 29, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] The Hainan Free Trade Port will launch island-wide independent customs operations on Dec 18, a key step in transforming the tropical island into a globally significant free trade hub, a senior official announced Wednesday.
"With the independent customs operations, Hainan FTP is poised to become a key gateway for China's new era of opening up and innovation," Cai added. China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) is set to launch an island-wide independent customs operation on Dec. 18, 2025, underscoring the country's wider push for high-standard opening up.
Large power plants feed their electricity into this level and distribute it to the subordinate distribution grids, from which the electricity goes to households. In addition, the transmission grid connects the German electricity grid with those of neighbouring European countries and the European energy exchange.
A strong and highly interconnected electricity grid is one of the key flexibility assets in Germany – and Europe. No other region of the world has a comparable cross-national grid as robust, reliable and interconnected as that in Europe.
Being responsible for Germany's high-voltage grid, TSOs maintain, operate, plan and expand grid infrastructure. For example, 50Hertz Transmission — owned by Belgian company Elia Group (80%) and German state-owned KfW banking group (20%) — controls the grid in eastern Germany and parts of it in the north.
In Germany the high voltage transmission grid is largely owned by the four transmission system operators (TSOs): TenneT, 50Hertz Transmission, Amprion and TransnetBW. At the level of the distribution grids the electricity is transmitted at high, medium and low voltage. The high voltage grid is used for the primary distribution of the electricity.
In the early 2000s, Germany encouraged people to install solar panels on the roofs of their homes by rewarding them with payments, known as feed-in tariffs, for sending energy to the grid. But those have become less lucrative in recent years, making such large-scale investments less attractive.
But in homes across Germany, they are powering a quiet transformation, bringing the green revolution into the hands of people without requiring them to make a large investment, find an electrician or use heavy tools. “You don’t need to drill or hammer anything,” Ms. Berg said.
History of German feed-in tariffs in ¢/kWh for rooftop solar of less than 10 kW p since 2001. For 2016, it amounted to 12.31 ¢/kWh. Germany introduced its feed-in tariff in 2000 and it later became a model for solar industry policy support in other countries. : 145
