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Beijing is currently actively promoting the country's first duty-free store in Chaoyang District landing, mainly for inbound tourists, further extending the duty-free store in space to the city, the price is also consistent with the airport. In the future, foreign tourists will be able to buy duty-free goods right when traveling within Beijing. In the future, the duty-free store in Beijing will be better than the airport duty-free store in terms of spatial layout, volume and product categories, and some domestic products will be included in the scope of duty-free sales.
In the year, the number of tourists in Beijing continued to rise, in January-June alone, the number of inbound tourists was 1.93 million, an increase of 3.4 percent year-on-year, and the inbound tourism revenue realized 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 5.6 percent year-on-year. In the year as a whole, the number of inbound tourists received by Beijing grew back to over 1 million. As for the information about the duty-free stores, at present, China Duty Free (Group) Limited Liability Company is communicating with Chaoyang District to coordinate the specific location of the duty-free stores in the city. The space of Beijing airport is relatively limited, so the volume of airport duty free store, the variety of goods are limited, while the city duty free store will not only expand and optimize in this regard, the traffic convenience is relatively higher. After the opening of the duty-free store in Beijing, it will probably adopt the same mode of operation as other places, which is to buy in the city and pick up the goods at the airport.
The city duty-free store vs. the duty-free shop
Many of our friends may say, "How is this the first duty-free store in China? Isn't there a lot of them in Beijing? In fact, there are a few stores in Beijing with the signboard of "duty free store", such as in the Chaoyang District, Huixin East Street, China out of the service duty free store. This store was established in the 80's, and it is a specialized store providing duty-free foreign exchange commodities for Chinese citizens going abroad, mainly under the China Expatriate Service Corporation (CESC). The business scope covers imported watches, cosmetics, foodstuffs, high-grade gifts and so on. According to the regulations, as long as still within 180 days of the departure of the return home, are available with a passport in the store to buy duty-free foreign exchange commodities. One of the biggest differences between the city face bookstore this in the out of service duty-free store is that the consumer groups are not the same, the city duty-free store is mainly to serve overseas tourists into Beijing, and in the out of service duty-free store is mainly for the return of Chinese citizens to provide duty-free commodities, and the scale of the above is also the city face data to take you to be a little bigger.
The country's first city duty-free store if you can successfully establish, will break the pattern of the existing domestic duty-free market, change most of the regions of China's long-existing, inbound tourists can only be in the airport rush and a small amount of duty-free commodities purchased situation. In addition to Hainan's special policy, the establishment of Beijing's in-city duty-free store is also a proof that duty-free stores do not necessarily have to be established in airports, and that the system and mode can provide a reference template for other districts to open similar stores. According to foreign experience, the city's duty-free stores may become more of an important sales channel for national and Beijing-branded goods, such as the Forbidden City's cultural and creative products, but they will also be set up with corresponding shopping limits.
At present, domestic companies with duty-free operation licenses include CDFG, Hai Free, Zhu Free, Shenzhen Free, China Outbound Service, China Overseas Chinese Free and several others. In addition to Hainan's island duty-free stores, the domestic duty-free business is still mainly distributed in airports around the country.