City commerce officials announced recently that in January and February 1.8 times the number of new foreign enterprises registered as they did over the same period last year.
A total of $1.5 billion contracted foreign investment was made double the figure of the previous year. The total of available foreign investment was $530 million, up 6.9 percent.
China has decided to extend its visa waiver policy to ordinary passport holders from Canada and the United Kingdom starting from Feb 17.
Forty-one new port-of-entry duty-free shops have been established nationwide, with Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport, Xiamen Wutong Passenger Wharf, and Xiamen International Cruise Center included on the list.
