XI JINPING CAME TO YIWU

The general Secretary’s visit to Zhejiang has directly penetrated into the most grass-roots research of the county-level small commodity market, interacts with merchants, feels the economic pulse, and conveys a clear signal of jointly promoting development and boosting confidence.
Today’s Yiwu market, which gathers more than 2.1 million kinds of commodities in 26 major categories and is sold to more than 230 countries and regions around the world, is a barometer of China’s economy.
Since the beginning of this year, the daily passenger flow in and out of Yiwu International Trade City has averaged more than 200,000 people, and there are about 20,000 trucks shuttling on the highway every day. In the first 8 months, Yiwu’s exports were 336.04 billion yuan, an increase of 20.4% year-on-year, accounting for 2.17% of the country…
In a complex and changing environment, Yiwu’s outstanding economic results are the embodiment of China’s economic resilience and vitality.
Looking across the country, with the support of a series of stable expectations and strong confidence policies of the Party Central Committee, the main operating indicators of China’s economy showed positive changes in August, and the performance of indicators such as industry, services, consumption, and prices were better than last month, highlighting the continued recovery of the economy.
The main body of management is the “cell” of economic operation. The general secretary always cares about all kinds of business entities, and often goes deep into the park and enterprises during investigation and research to cheer for the development of enterprises.
Today, Yiwu International Trade City has 75,000 offline shops, more than 15,000 resident foreign businessmen, and 2.1 million micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and 32 million industrial workers across the country.
On August 16 this year, Yiwu’s registered market operators have exceeded one million households, ranking second in the country’s counties.
This set of data bears witness to the vitality index of Yiwu market: It took 26 years for market operators to break through the first 100,000 households, and doubled from 500,000 households to 1 million households in just 4 years.
“Yiwu market has built a platform for our brand to go overseas, and our company has also won more business opportunities in product quality upgrading.” The words of a market merchant speak the common aspirations of many merchants.
Over the past 40 years, from “chicken feathers for sugar” to “world supermarket”, Yiwu has written the legend of China’s county economic development, created the Yiwu experience with the innovative spirit of “creating something out of nothing”, and grown from a regional market to a global market.
At Yiwu railway port, the “Yixin Europe” train that runs to the countries that jointly build the “Belt and Road” is busy, carrying Chinese small commodities continuously to Central Asia, Europe and other places, and also returning with boxes of imported goods. In the past 10 years, Yiwu’s imports have increased by nearly 10 times.
Today’s Yiwu is speeding up the construction of a new development pattern to write a new answer sheet of high-quality development.
On the new journey of promoting Chinese-style modernization, there are both opportunities and challenges. We will strengthen confidence in the long-term sound development of the Chinese economy and unswervingly pursue high-quality development. China’s new development will surely bring more new opportunities to the world.