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Opening-up education Researchers work at the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in Sanya, Hainan. JIANG QIMING/CHINA NEWS SERVICE To meet the free trade port's demand for domestic and overseas talent, and also to cater to demand for high-quality education, the Hainan government collaborated with the Ministry of Education to build the Li'an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone in Lingshui Li autonomous county, in the island's southeast. Coventry College, Communication University of China, a joint education institute in Li'an, last year admitted 90 students to its intelligent science and technology undergraduate major. Queen Mary School Hainan, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, also a joint education institute in Li'an, has the capacity to enroll 1,200 students. "We have top-notch teaching staff from the UK in the fields of medicine and life sciences to cultivate the students' abilities to integrate and apply intelligent information and biomedical science," Kang said, adding this will help meet Hainan's needs in innovative development.