With the end of the Spring Festival holiday in the Year of the Dragon, all walks of life are also rapidly becoming active.
On the morning of February 21, 2024, Yiwu International Trade City, which has been closed for 15 days, officially opened for business. Today, **Times E Company found in Yiwu that in the face of the influx of guests from all over the world, the operators of Yiwu International Trade City have been gearing up and looking forward to a "good start".
World commerce is heating up in an instant
Yesterday, the streets of the whole city were still empty. Today has changed, and the traffic jam has started early in the morning. On the way from Yiwu high-speed rail station to Yiwu International Trade City, the taxi driver "complained" about his happiness and troubles to the reporter of E company.
This morning, when the reporter of E company walked into the Yiwu market, I saw the crowd of people on the scene, rows of shops cleaned up, opened for business, and the merchants also "enlarged the move" to solicit business.
Although it is only the first day of the opening of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Dragon, the Yiwu bosses who are good at "making money" have been unable to hold back their desire to make money, and some of them have contacted old customers at home to send New Year's greetings; Some of them take orders on the platform to increase the factory schedule; Some buyers who can't be invited to open the market live ......
In addition, the reporter of E company found at the scene that today's Yiwu International Trade City, not only the physical market is very lively, its official digital platform Chinagoods also uses the first live broadcast method to simultaneously show the opening of the market for global buyers and send out the opening benefits, which online has attracted the warm attention of more than 3 million netizens in the business industry.
As the world's largest distribution center for small commodities, Yiwu International Trade City is known as "the world's supermarket" and "the world's small commodity capital". It is also one of the important windows of China's foreign trade, according to official data, Yiwu International Trade City brings together 26 categories, more than 2.1 million kinds of commodities, radiating 233 countries and regions, driving the development of 2.1 million small and medium-sized enterprises, 32 million industrial workers employment, more than 560,000 overseas merchants to Yiwu every year, from more than 100 countries and regionsMore than 50,000 overseas merchants are stationed in Yiwu.
In 2023, the number of business entities in the Yiwu market will exceed one million, and the total number will reach 105460,000 households, an increase of 174%。The main body of e-commerce exceeded 600,000, accounting for 1 3 in Zhejiang Province. The "Yixinou" China-Europe train runs 1,580 trains throughout the year, ranking first in the country. Express business volume 105800 million pieces, an increase of 138%, accounting for 1 12 of the national total.
At today's market opening ceremony, a number of leaders of Yiwu City also went deep into the major markets of Yiwu International Trade City, through real-time interaction with AI digital bosses. Among them, Wang Jian, Secretary of the Yiwu Municipal Party Committee, and Ye Bangrui, Mayor of Yiwu, respectively sent the blessings of "good luck for the opening of the market" to the audience in the Chinagoods live broadcast room, and sent Spring Festival couplets to the market operators.
Create new growth poles with digitalization
Investors who are familiar with Yiwu know that the local state-owned commodity city (600415) is the main operator of the Yiwu market, and the company has a number of professional markets such as Yiwu International Trade City, Binwang Market, Huangyuan Market, and Yixi Production Resources Market.
Today, in the face of guests from all over the world, Wang Xiangrong, general manager of Yiwu International Trade City Operating Company, said that in the past year, from digital empowerment to the application of AIGC in the small commodity industry, Chinagoods has continued to improve its digital trade performance service capabilities and create new growth poles; In the new year, under the guidance of the core spirit of "breakthrough" of the group, the company will bring more customers and traffic to the market, bring order growth to operators, provide more intimate services for buyers, bring high-quality Chinese brands overseas, and gather good things from all over the world to Yiwu, so as to consolidate the systematic foundation of "coming to Yiwu and doing business for people on the earth".
According to the 2023 performance forecast released by the company on January 10, 2024, during the reporting period, the GMV of the Chinagoods platform exceeded RMB 65 billion, a year-on-year increase of more than 80%. Yiwu China Commodity City Big Data ***chinagoods operating entity) annual net profit of more than 80 million yuan.
Yiwu Pay, a subsidiary of Commodity City, obtained the cross-border RMB business qualification in 2022 and was officially launched in February 2023. According to the performance forecast of Commodity City, in just 10 months, Yiwu Pay has opened cross-border RMB accounts for nearly 20,000 merchants, with cross-border clearing funds exceeding RMB 8.5 billion, and the operating entity of "Yiwu Pay" (Express Payment Service*** achieved profitability that year.
It is worth mentioning that in 2024, Yiwu's first-class work report proposes to "build a market city", systematically plan the sixth-generation market, accelerate the construction progress of the main body of the global digital trade center market and business office block, and put into use the construction of supporting projects such as cross-border e-commerce industrial parks; further promote the action of market brands going overseas; Iterate on the Chinagoods platform, adding more than 80 billion yuan in new transactions.
At the same time, the 2024 Yiwu ** work report also proposes to "build a city of reform", strive for a new round of international comprehensive reform pilots, and take the lead in promoting 10 key reforms such as market procurement and import mechanism innovation; Accelerate the listing of state-owned enterprises, cultivate more than 8 listed reserve enterprises, plan to promote a new round of financial reform, and achieve full coverage of the professional market on the pilot of digital yuan.
In the exhibition room on the first floor of the headquarters building of the Commodity City, there are model drawings of the "Global Digital Trade Center" and the "Sixth Generation Market" under construction. "According to the plan, the market part of the global digital trade center is expected to be put into use in the second half of 2025. The relevant person in charge of the commodity city told reporters.
Editor-in-charge: Zhang Qianyao.
Photo courtesy of Li Xiaoping.
Proofreading: Gao Yuan.