Yiwu Builds Itself into a “Global
Supermarket” with “One Belt and One Road”
In recent years, Yiwu has striven to develop its import trade. Imported
Commodities Malls have been successively set up in International Trade Mart and
Yiwu Non-staple Food Market, with more than 50 thousand commodities from over
90 countries. It is known that Yiwu Municipal People’s Government, with “One
belt and One Road”, has planned to create Yiwu into a double-flow “global
supermarket” of both export and import commodities, which will enable Yiwu not
only “sell globally”, but also “buy globally. ”
Presently, Yiwu has attracted about 15 thousand permanent overseas
traders from over 100 countries. Behind the import model of Yiwu, there are
import platforms carefully constructed by local government, such as the “B-type
bonded area” for exhibition of enterprises, which has already been checked and
accepted by four state ministries at the end of 2014. The new international
routes opened in recent years draw quick links to imported consumer products,
such as the YXE cargo train, which has transported
more than 6,000 kinds of European daily consumer products to Yiwu since May of 2014.
Moreover, the flight route from Yiwu to Hong Kong has been opened, and flights
from Yiwu to
At the just-ended 2015 China Yiwu Imported Commodities Fair, the 10
thousand overseas commodities exhibited have made Yiwu into a “window of world
consumer products”. There are totally 1,500 enterprises participated in the fair,
more than 80% of which are from countries and regions along the “