Original title: "The Capital of Small Commodities" integrates the world's business districts.
Economic ** reporter Sun Changyue.
Yiwu, Zhejiang, a city built on the market, is known as "the world's largest small commodity market".
Over the past 10 years since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed, Yiwu has continuously amplified its unique advantages of "buying and selling the world, connecting goods to the world, and connecting with the world", and vigorously promoted the construction of open channels such as "Yixinou", "Yiyongzhou" and "Online Silk Road", which has become an important fulcrum of the "Belt and Road".
Today's Yiwu market, bringing together 26 categories of 2.1 million kinds of goods, ** covering more than 230 countries and regions, an average of 30 million pieces of express delivery from here every day, more than 560,000 overseas merchants to Yiwu every year, there are more than 100 countries and regions of 1More than 50,000 overseas merchants are stationed in Yiwu.
At the "3rd China (Yiwu) 'Belt and Road' Cities International Forum 2023" held recently, Danilo Türk, a former Slovenian city, said that it is a miracle that Yiwu, a city that is not near the sea and has no mineral resources, is famous all over the world for its commerce and trade and has become the global capital of small commodities. "The development of Yiwu commodities also reflects the miracle of China's transformation and reform. ”
Opening the window of Yiwu, the world not only saw the hard power of China's manufacturing industry ranking first in the world, but also felt the huge potential of the super large consumer market of more than 1.4 billion people.
As the starting point of the "Yixinou" China-Europe train, Yiwu has played an important role in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road". From 2013 to 2022, Yiwu's imports and exports to the "Belt and Road" countries reached 17 trillion yuan. Wang Jianwei, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Yiwu International Inland Port Group, said that in recent years, the amount of goods exported through the "Yixinou" train has increased steadily. According to the data of Yiwu Customs, in 2021, the value of goods exported through the "Yixinou" train was 312900 million yuan, which will increase to 330 in 2022500 million yuan, which has reached 217 in the first seven months of 2023600 million yuan.
Through the efforts of Yiwu people from generation to generation, Yiwu has formed a world business circle in the new era. Chen Wenling, chief economist of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, said that in the next step, Yiwu should continue to enlarge the market energy level, the international energy level, the industrial energy level, the city energy level, the opening energy level, the reform energy level, and the cultural energy level, so as to enhance the energy level of the business district. Relying on the advantages of foreign businessmen, Yiwu has become an important window for "China to see the world, and the world to see China".
Danilo Türk said that the key to international cooperation is common understanding. In order for the world to understand China and understand China, it should know more about cities like Yiwu, as well as the symbolism brought by Yiwu and its success. "When we look at the future of China and the world, Yiwu is a lens through which we can see some signs of the future. ”
As small as an accessory, as large as the world, integration, mutual benefit and win-win, this is what the global village should look like, and it is also the correct way to open the "Belt and Road" initiative.
Chinese and foreign businessmen in Yiwu bring high-quality and low-cost Chinese goods to Africa, and also bring high-quality and high-value goods from Africa to China, which reflects the win-win cooperation between South Africa and China. South Africa's ambassador to China, Xie Shengwen, said that China and South Africa's partners, including the most important exchanges, should continue to expand the best exchanges, make full use of the best cooperation, promote more seamless flow through e-commerce platforms and jointly build logistics centers, increase China's interpersonal exchanges with other countries, and enhance the effectiveness of logistics to benefit business people.
Over the past 10 years, private enterprises have played an important role in the Belt and Road Initiative. Sun Xuegong, director of the decision-making and consulting department of the National China Macroeconomic Research Institute, said that with the deepening and practical construction of the "Belt and Road", the focus of construction has changed from infrastructure construction in the past to infrastructure and industrial development today, and promoted the industrialization and digitalization stage of the country. Compared with the previous 10 years, private enterprises will have more room for development.
Bai Jiyan, vice president of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China and member of the French Foreign Affairs Advisory Committee (China), said that in the future, we must think outside the box. The new globalization is becoming a new platform, and China needs to transform from a manufacturing center to an innovation center to provide more solutions for countries around the world on the basis of products. For example, to explore more cooperation between cities, China has great achievements in infrastructure, mobile payments, 5G, electric vehicles, etc., and now many of the big cities of the Belt and Road partners are full of opportunities, and China can explore solutions for them, and use Chinese wisdom to empower more interesting metropolises.
The Belt and Road Initiative is not only a road to connectivity, but also a way to win-win cooperation. "Yiwu is an important bridgehead and a new starting point for the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road'. Looking at the future from Yiwu, we believe that the door of China's reform and opening up will be opened wider and wider, and the road of openness, inclusiveness, interconnection and common development of the world will be wider and wider. Zhang Donggang, secretary of the party committee of the Chinese National University, said.
*:Economy**.