Yiwu, the world's largest small commodity market, has been developing various kinds of e-commerce and strengthening its ability to digitally connect online and offline in the face of the development of the digital economy and the effect of the COVID-19 epidemic.
A total of 370 Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe freight trains departed from Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province in the first three months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 10.1 percent, according to local customs.
Yiwu in East China's Zhejiang province launched a new international shipping method using TIR trucks on March 30.
Jinhua and Yiwu in East China, two of China's major e-commerce hubs, have delivered 5,886 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of cargo via China-Europe and China-Laos freight train services during the Spring Festival holiday.
The online retail sales of Yiwu, a county-level city in Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang province, reached 185.62 billion yuan ($29.09 billion) from January to November this year, a year-on-year increase of 10.8 percent and ranking first in the province for the 11th consecutive month, according to data released by the Department of Commerce of Zhejiang Province.
From January to September, the total volumes handled by express service businesses in Yiwu – a county-level city administered by Jinhua, in East China's Zhejiang province – hit 6.54 billion packages and parcels, for year-on-year growth of 38.4 percent.
Exhibition halls at the "Let's Go China" Rwanda Trade Services Center in Kigali, capital of Rwanda, have been displaying various kinds of made-in-China commodities and attracting numerous local purchasers.
By the end of 2022, 100 percent of the administrative villages in the e-commerce demonstration counties will have a separate e-commerce service station.
