A 500-Year-Old Voyage: Posting Qionghai's Story to the World

From March 24-27, the " Boao: Where the World Meets, Qionghai: Where Free Trade Thrives" City Exhibition was held at Boao’s Dongyu Island Cultural Park.

Exhibition Significance
- Held March 24–27 at Dongyu Island Cultural Park, Boao.
- First major showcase since the launch of Hainan Free Trade Port’s island-wide special customs operations.
- Positioned Qionghai as a core functional zone of the free trade port, blending policy, culture, and immersive technology.

Immersive Experiences
- Digital Twin Experience Pod: Visitors used identity cards to glimpse daily life in “future Qionghai.”
- Cycling through Qionghai: Scenic journeys along the Wanquan River and historic Nanyang towns.
- Tale of the Sea Post Office: Inspired by a 500-year-old shipwreck relic—a “Fahua-style” plum vase recovered from 1,500m below the South China Sea.
Guests mailed postcards stamped with a unique Qionghai postmark.

Artistic Storytelling
- Postcards featured images from Qionghai Chronicles, a two-year photographic project by Wang Yao (World Press Photo & China News Award winner).
- Captured scenes like:
- Elders mending nets at dawn in Tanmen port.
- Children playing by the Wanquan River.
- Afternoon tea in Boao.
- Builders shaping the port’s future.

Heritage & Future
- Showcased Qionghai’s millennia-old fishing traditions, Nanyang heritage, and its new role as a thriving free trade hub.
- Each postcard symbolically carried Qionghai’s story across the globe—“a whisper from the South China Sea.”

This exhibition cleverly fused heritage, art, and trade policy into a sensory narrative, positioning Qionghai as both a cultural anchor and a modern economic hub.