As the only remaining shopping haven in a mostly closed China, the tax-free island of Hainan has become the world's busiest sales point for luxury giants, even in the midst of the country's recent new wave of Covid-19. But those spending surges are causing supply chain bottlenecks, sending logistics operators scrambling to open storage sites on the island.
Following the closure of Chengdu's shopping malls in September, Chinese luxury goods shoppers, who are already unable to visit shops in Beijing or Shanghai, must now either shop online or travel to the tax-free island of Hainan, located at the tip of the Leizhou Peninsula in the Gulf of Tonkin. The only company operating shopping centres on the island is the state-owned China Duty Free Group Co. Its ten huge malls there host 720
