The Seventh Plenary Session of the Twelfth Municipal Party Committee has determined that “Creating innovation and excellence to improve quality and efficiency” will be the work focus for the city this year as well as the upcoming period. Well implementation of this focus will effectively push forward the new progress of development of our city.

Recently, Huang Zhiping, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee of Jinhua and the Municipal Party Secretary of Yiwu, made a work report at the plenary session on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee; at the session, he advocated the whole city to “create excellence and innovation, improve quality and efficiency, strive to carry forward the two reforms and establish new advantages for the development of Yiwu”, so as to push forward the new round of development of Yiwu and ensure her leading position.

 In the last few days, Honesty and Cleanness Culture Construction Promotion Conference of Jinhua City was held in Yiwu. During the conference, the first-batch demonstration sites of the “Six-Entry” activity of honesty and cleanness culture construction in Jinhua were well commended, among which, the Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres of Jinhua, along with other 89 organizations entered the list of honor....

In the last few days, the assessment team from Jinhua that aims at checking the situation of new socialist countryside construction, under the lead by the group leader Hu Xinmin, the Municipal Deputy Secretary-General and Municipal Agricultural Office Director of Jinhua City, arrived in our city and inspected the new socialist countryside construction progress. The Municipal Party Deputy Secretary, Chen Xiuxian, and relevant department heads of our city attended the debriefing of the new socialist countryside construction. The Deputy Mayor, Fu Chunming, accompanied the assessment team during the inspection.
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 Recently, the presentation ceremony of the plaques, issued by the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination for the designated travel agencies of the experience trip of “Expo 2010 Shanghai China”, has been held in our city and Huaxia Tourism Company was the only designated travel agency selected in our city. On the same day, around 5,000 citizens of the city registered for the “Shanghai Expo Experience Trip”....

 Recent days are quite heart-warming as well as significant to the 61 elder citizens of Xue Village, Chian Town. Without joining the social security plan, they received RMB 70 of old-age pension for the current month from the government. 

Yiwu was among the latest list of Example City for Agriculture Machine Safety in Zhejiang, a list issued jointly by the provincial agriculture administration, the production safety bureau and the provincial public security administration, according to the municipal agriculture machinery administration.

The total retail market turnover in Yiwu reached 55.61 billion yuan in 2009, an increase of 12.96 percent from the previous year, according to the municipal industry and commerce administration. Turnover in the China Commodity City rose 7.8 percent to a new record high of 41.159 billion yuan in 2009.

The Yiwu Logistics Park has been very busy in these days despite the cold weather. Cranes and trucks have been working day after night, making noise around the clock.

Yiwu Phenomenon – from Small Stalls to Global Market, a book by Wang Shuzu, the former deputy chairman of Tianjin People’s Congress, was released recently at the Yiwu party school. The author as well as Yiwu municipal leaders, including Huang Zhiping, He Meihua, Tong Xiangdi, Yang Linzhang, Chen Xiuxian, attended the launching ceremony, in addition to party school students and business delegates.