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 )