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Around 40,000 foreign exhibitors and buyers have signed up for this year's Hainan Expo. They include representatives of companies from Belarus, Italy, France, Germany and Switzerland. CGTN reporter Xu Hua spoke to Joerg Wuttke, president of the European Chamber of Commerce in China, about the significance of this year's event. Wuttke said that Hainan's bid to become another Hong Kong or Singapore was a "winning proposition".