The government work report mentioned support for the construction of the central building materials market in Tunchang, Hainan. This made Hainan Provincial People’s Congress representative and Zhang Shimin, general manager of the home building materials market in central Hainan (Tuen Chang), excited and he thought that government departments should speed up the construction of home building materials industry park to better promote farmers’ income.

    Since the opening of the Haitun Expressway, more and more merchants (especially those from the island) have turned their eyes on Tunchang. From November of last year to January of this year alone, there were 147 paved and sold pavilions in the home building materials market in Central Hainan (Tuen Cheong), which was almost the sum of the first half of 2012. Currently, the market occupancy rate has reached 93%.

    As more and more shops are opened, there will be more and more local farmers working in the building materials market. The radiation-induced effects of building materials cities will become more and more significant.

    In order to better promote the income of farmers and solve more people's employment, Zhang Shimin proposed to speed up the construction of home building materials industry parks, expand the area of home building materials industry parks to 5,000 acres, and upgrade them to provincial home building materials industry parks. At present, Tunchang has taken the trade and logistics industry as a large industry. In addition to building a central home building material city, it also plans to build projects such as the Auto City, the Agricultural Museum, and the Logistics City.

    “Accelerating the construction of home building materials industrial parks will also benefit the employment and income growth of farmers in the central region.” Zhang Shimin said that since the development level of various social undertakings in central Hainan is lower than that of the whole province, especially the difficulties of employment and income increase for farmers, the home building materials industry has been established in Tunchang. The park is a great stimulus to the development of central Hainan and will solve the employment of thousands and even thousands of people.