China Commodity City has developed logistics, is one of three logistics centers in Zhejiang. The market possesses 200 odd coordinated consign lines, which can directly reach domestic 300 large and medium cities, 6 luggage railway lines, has unique civil aviation in central region of Zhejiang, closes to Ningbo and Shanghai ports with developed sea transportation, forms the solid traffic network of road, railway and aviation, daily goods throughput reach 5000 odd tons, standard containers of foreign consign were 200,000 in 2002. Meanwhile, found custom office, open “one custom, three inspection”, match to build up two modern logistic bases of International Logistic Center and Commodity City Logistic Center with advanced basic facilities, complete and high efficiency function.

With developed market chain and hot trading of numerous gathering merchants, China Commodity City becomes information source of issuing commodity price and new product trend, possesses wide spreading tunnel of market information, as well various commodity market information websites of special newspapers and periodicals, China Commodity Digital City, etc, in which, China Commodity Digital City is China Commodity City Net Market, figural market stands are all on website, thus promote electronic commerce development.

The goods from China Commodity City spread to 160 odd countries and regions, are salable in Southeast Asia, Middle East, Occident etc, yearly export volume has strongly reached 50% of total trading amount, in which, the export volume of predominant industry goods such as craftwork, ornament, small hardware, glasses, etc is 70% above, in the markets, above 60% merchants have supplying business of foreign trade, so now permanent foreign merchants in Yiwu are more than 5000, foreign commercial institutions are over 200. In May 2002, Shi Guangsheng, former minister of State Foreign Economic & Trade Ministry, drove the quill to write down epigraph of “face to the world, serve the whole country”.

China Commodity City possesses advanced and developed market system, exhibition industry develop early and has great influence, furthermore, is matched to build up China Commodity City Meihu Exhibition Center, which is a Large exhibition hall with international level, has the building area of 46, 000 sq.m., sets up 5 exhibition halls, can hold 1500 international stands, meanwhile, is equipped with international meeting hall, commercial center, coffee bar, etc, carries on 20 odd international and domestic exhibitions with different scales every year. Since launched in 1995, China Commodity Fair has experienced eight sessions. From 2002, the fair is promoted as national external exhibition held by National Commercial Ministry. The first session of International Commodity Fair attracted 5668 foreign merchants from 105 countries to attend the exhibition, trading amount reached RMB5.102 billion yuan, in the ordering lists of external exhibitions in the same year, is no 3 following after Chinese Export Commodities Fair and East China Fair. China Commodity International Fair has become important exhibition of dense labor commodities, is specially concerned with economic trade, extraversion and long efficiency.

Following with global industry of dense labor rapidly shifting to our country, China Commodity City market extraversion constantly improves and drives commodity industry to centrally develop, with the center of Yiwu, forms international commodity industry belt in Jinhua, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Lishui etc, advances market industry to group-type development, further expand market so as to consolidate its the status of international industry labor division.

China Commodity City has normal management, is a special market of firstly establishing ISO9001 International Quality System Certification in our country, in 2003, launches first special market electronic information management system into use programmed and developed by itself, realizes the service informatization management such as market development, stand rent, operator criterion of conduct, commercial information, etc, besides, is the fixed unit of shopping and tourism appointed by Zhejiang Tourist Bureau, in which, International Commodity City is awarded provincial Five-star Market by Zhejiang Commercial & Industrial Bureau, while Huangyuan Market and Binwang Market are granted Three-star Market.

Since 2000, relying on the chance of China joining in WTO, China Commodity City defines the new target of create global largest supermarket, build international shopping paradise", greatly develops shopping and tourism industries, accelerates market infrastructure construction, plans to build China Yiwu International Commodity Park with the area of 32 square kilometers, in which the first period market, with the building area of 340, 000 sq.m. has fully opened to practise business in September 2002, Yiwu Custom Office, International Logistic Center and China Commodity Digital City consecutively are put into operation, besides, the second period market of China Commodity City, World Trade Center, Exhibition Center expanding etc with budgeted investment of RMB2.5 billion yuan, are under construction, which shows a grand international blue print.