"We will make Yiwu an assembly area of modern service and advanced manufacture industries in the future," said He Meihua, the deputy secretary of CPC Yiwu Municipal Committee and Yiwu mayor, in an interview in the Economic Forum of Pan-Yangtze River Delta held in Yiwu. He said that the global commodities supermarket would seize opportunities to further promote the market transformation and upgrading and explore new ways of development in the background of post-financial crisis. With a history of over 2,200 years, Yiwu was the stage of "Bartering Chicken Feather for Candy" and is now an open city and the largest commodities wholesale market in China. The city has a commodities trade net covering different parts of the world, thus honored as "the first market in China" and "the first market in Asia", winning its fame in the economic circle both at home and abroad.

"Yiwu is not near the ocean, nor is it a large city. Being the largest market in the world is inseparably connected with the industry support. Without the strong support of light manufacture industry, the market couldn't realize sustainable development. The support is strong so that the industry develops well. If the support is weak, the industry competitiveness will become weak, too. China is the world's factory and the market development in Yiwu benefits by the support of light manufacture industry in the Yangtze River Delta especially the manufacture and processing industries of daily consumer goods. Great importance should be attached to the industry development to make the market prosperous," He said. "We will make full use of the leading position of our market, further raise the proportion and improve the level of service industry. The service industry, especially the modern service industry, should be vigorously developed."

It is learned that the proportion of three industries in Yiwu last year was 2.8: 43.8: 53.4 and Yiwu was the first county-level city in Zhejiang with the industry structure of "321". The proportion of the tertiary industry was 10 percentage points higher than that of Zhejiang province. But it was far from being enough for the demand of modern economic development according to He. "Led by the market, Yiwu will construct an industry assembly area characterized by modern service industry and make ten platforms for trade, E-business, logistics, exhibition, finance, headquarters economy, innovation, shopping tourism, business and life service."

"Yiwu will speed up building modern logistic platform to promote the exhibition brand development," He said. Logistics is an important supporting system for the market. Without developed logistics the market couldn't realize sustainable prosperity. The further development of modern logistics could give enough support to the economic development in the future. On one hand, more businessmen and products could be introduced to the market and the grade of commodities could be enhanced through various brand exhibitions. On the other hand, the added value and competitiveness of commodities could also be raised by the new technology transfer, which help to form a mutually-reinforcing development pattern between trade and exhibition. At the same time, Yiwu will speed up to integrate the construction plan of "Yiwu Economic Development Area" and "Yiwu Industry Park", concentrate on the development of enterprise buildings for headquarters economy , assemble the advanced manufacture industries, stretch the industrial chain to innovation, R&D, detection and training, and make an assembly area for advanced manufacture industries.