text: China to open port in Hainan to foreign ships. BEIJING 1996-12-06 
   China's State Council, or cabinet, has given a port in the southern province of Hainan permission to open to foreign vessels, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday. Xinhua did not say when Qinglan port in Wenchang city would be opened to foreign vessels. Wenchang has built a berth for 5, 000 deadweight-tonne container ships at the port and invested 34 million yuan ($4. 1 million) to dredge the harbour, Xinhua said. It gave no further details. ($1 = 8. 3 yuan)
competitors: China Hainan BEIJING China State Council Hainan Xinhua Xinhua Qinglan Wenchang Wenchang Xinhua