9 with the Pudong New Area and other countries have been approved than comprehensive reform pilot area, Yiwu is the first county-level cities by the State Council approved a comprehensive reform, is the first national zhejiang comprehensive reform.

"Light" industrial breakthrough

More emphasis on the pilot at the strategic level radiation Yiwu Market.

Yiwu is granted before the test area, facing the local government is deeply difficult problem. 16 county in Zhejiang province in the economy, Yiwu, the increase in output value of enterprises above designated size behind many cities and counties, ranked first in more than 20 percentage points lower in Cixi.

"This Yiwu industrial growth and industrial structure of the environment." One expert said.

Over the past 30 years, Yiwu rely on the "Traveling Salesman" singled out the world's largest commodity distribution center, then that "trade and industry linkage" to trade-led industrial economic development, the formation of socks, jewelry, and other industrial clusters. Industrial output value of light industry output value accounted for more than 83%.

And its surrounding area's industrial structure has been achieved from the "light" to "heavy" changes. For example, since 2003, Jinhua heavy industry contributed to the total output value of more than a light industry, heavy industry Yongkang industrial output accounted for more than 80%.

"Last year in the first half, Jinhua light industry output value up 19.1%, heavy industry output value up 26.8%. Yiwu Industry is too 'light' has affected the overall growth of industry." Yiwu related personnel statistics department said.

Affected by peer competition, increase prices of light industry is not high. According to statistics, last year, only the first half of Yiwu light prices rose 1.5%, while the heavy industry rose 14.1%. This also affected the industrial growth of Yiwu.

To this end, Yiwu to the NDRC, NPC and other departments to submit "on the test area, yiwu international free trade proposal" put forward in the international economy, trade and personnel exchanges, etc. to Yiwu more special, preferential policies, especially in customs clearance, commodity inspection , financial services, intellectual property protection, etc., to give more foreign Yiwu management authority, promoting the bonded warehouse, bonded logistics parks, export processing zones and other aspects of the building. Proposal by the NPC Standing Committee, the State Council's full attention.

October 2009, Zhejiang Province, reported to the State Council formally requested the government to carry out "comprehensive reform of yiwu international trade" and instructions.

This year in March, the State Council formally approved a comprehensive reform of Yiwu International Trade.

A "first mover advantage"

Zhejiang overall economic reform will provide breakthrough experimental experience.

"Small horse-drawn carts." Policy Research Office, yiwu city, Yiwu Shi Wenzhen commented on the current economic structure.

Shi Wenzhen analysis, Yiwu facing many bottlenecks in the system. For example, although only one county-level city, but Yiwu has more than 1.2 million foreign resident. Due to the current policy constraints, most of them are not eligible to run.

In his view, Yiwu has been in many aspects of the system innovation breakthroughs. Yiwu is granted a trial break opportunity. Clear that the pilot program, customs, inspection and quarantine, taxation, foreign exchange, industrial and commercial departments to explore the implementation of the procurement trade and market regulation measures and corresponding measures, to achieve "a declaration, one inspection, a release" will change the commodity Trade and foreign exchange can not be written off for export tax rebates, foreign trade and other aspects of the qualification.

To foreign businessmen and business qualifications, for example, in the pilot approval, in order to tailor foreign resident "foreign natural persons registered as individual business model" has become possible to Yiwu to create "buy global, sell global," the International Trade Centre lay the basis for the most basic system.

Not only that, under the State Council, wholesale "Yiwu International Trade City, a comprehensive reform of the overall plan," proposed the establishment of new trade, optimize export structure, strengthen the construction of the Yiwu market, and explore new ways of modern circulation, promote industrial restructuring and upgrading, to develop the international market and accelerate the "go" pace, to promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade, barriers to international trade friction and other aspects of the main tasks of the pilot.

Yiwu City newspaper learned from both, 3 years, Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, will rely on comprehensive reform of international trade, reporting to the relevant state ministries and commissions of 17 institutional innovation. All of these institutional innovation, the future will benefit from Zhejiang Yiwu spread throughout, as is the development of strategic opportunities in Zhejiang, a new institutional mechanism to provide "first-mover advantage."