Gelonghui July 26 | China Free (601888.SH) said on an interactive platform that the company has not yet opened a duty-free shop in Japan. In recent years, the company has continued to steadily advance the internationalization process, including overseas project expansion and duty-free management rights bidding, and is committed to expanding its global layout. Currently, the company has overseas duty-free shops in Hong Kong, Macau and Cambodia, and operates 2 overseas cruise duty-free shops. In 2023, the Cambodia Angkor Airport store, the “Adamado” and “Mediterania” cruise lines opened successively, and the Qeelin boutique at Singapore Changi Airport opened in 2024. In the future, the company will focus on the Chinese consumer market, combine national strategies such as the “Belt and Road” and “Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”, and focus on overseas tourist destinations for Chinese people in the Asia-Pacific region. The construction of an international tourism consumption center is one of the four major development strategies of Hainan to implement comprehensive and deepening reform and opening-up. It is also a top priority in building an international tourism island. Hainan's tourism retail and consumer market space is huge. The company will continue to make every effort to improve the layout of the Hainan market, key airports and ports, and overseas markets, pay close attention to store policy developments in the city, promote service quality upgrades, continuously improve consumer satisfaction, take more measures to unleash duty-free consumption potential, and strive to return shareholders with better performance.