Duty-free shopping by local residents of south China's Hainan Province has evolved from occasional purchases into regular daily consumption, data released by Haikou Customs show. From November 2025 to October 2026, offshore duty-free shopping in Hainan hit 33.45 billion yuan (about 4.98 billion U.S. dollars), with 4.88 million shoppers purchasing 27.64 million items, a year-on-year growth of 13.8 percent, 8.6 percent and 2.4 percent respectively.