Sanya's GDP reached 59.55 billion yuan in 2018

In 2018, Sanya’s GDP reached 59.55 billion yuan ($ 8.87 billion), up 7.2 percent year-on-year. The ratio of added-value of the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors was 11.5:19.8:68.7 and the local general public budget revenue was 10.04 billion yuan, up 13.3 percent, exceeding 10 billion yuan for the first time.

Total retail sales of consumer goods reached 24.18 billion yuan, an increase of 8 percent; the new jobs in urban areas were 35,000, and the urban registered unemployment rate was 1.47 percent. Per capita disposable income of urban residents was 36,417 yuan, up 8.3 percent. For rural residents it was 15,773 yuan, up 8.3 percent; the CPI increased by 2.5 percent. 

Free trade experimental zone construction projects, to be started in two groups, numbered 50, with a total investment of about 17.6 billion yuan. The city has adopted a talent recruitment project named “Millions of talents entering Hainan” and taken measures to attracts more professionals and to create a better environment for them. The city now has offered household registration to 10,172 people and residence permits to 2,141 foreigners.