An automated gantry crane operates at Qujiang Port in Quzhou. [Photo/People's Daily]

Qujiang Port in Quzhou – the city situated in East China's Zhejiang province – is understood to be pushing for the construction of a four provinces multi-modal transport port hub.

It is doing so by adopting of a "four ports into one" strategy – integrating airports, water ports, land ports and information ports.  

A key player in all of this is the Yiwu-Ningbo-Zhoushan economic corridor, whose construction was launched by the provincial government in 2016 as one of Zhejiang's signature mega projects, in response to the central government's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20).

The new economic corridor will center on Zhejiang's county-level city of Yiwu and the prefecture-level city of Jinhua, which administers Yiwu. A significant number of its new projects will be established in Quzhou, the westernmost prefecture-level city in Zhejiang.

In addition, efforts are being made by the city to attract digital economy giants. Wuhan-based Zall Holding Co Ltd plans to invest a massive 23 billion yuan ($3.55 billion) to build a digital economy demonstration zone in Quzhou – as well as an unmanned digital port – and help the city build an information port.