Recently, the State Council approved Zhejiang Yiwu Economic Development Zone was upgraded to national economic and technological development zone vigorously push forward the comprehensive reform of the international trade.
The State Council General Office said on it issued on March 2 this yeay to Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government and the Ministry of Commerce of the State Council r to upgrade to the reply of the National Economic and Technological Development Zone, Zhejiang Yiwu Economic Development Zone, after the upgrade,Yiwu Economic Development Zone named Yiwu Economic and Technological Development Zone,implement the policies of the current national economic and technological development zones. This will be the support major industry platform of city’s international trade comprehensive reform.
Yiwu Economic Development Zone was established in August 1992 approved by the provincial government in 1994 for the provincial economic development zone, adopted in 2006, the National Development and Reform Commission, the audit shall be maintained. In October 2009, approved by the provincial government, to be one of the 12 development zones integrate and improve  pilot across the province, integrated planning area of ??93 square kilometers.
After nearly 20 years of development, Yiwu Economic Development Zone work out  a road of  focusing on manufacturing Commodity, market and industry linkage, the secondary industry and tertiary industry integration, industrialization and urbanization promoted each other featured development, and fostered the clusters of arts and crafts, jewelry, knitting socks, zippers, and cultural goods industry, build a successful technological innovation service platform of the national post-doctoral workstations, the Virtual Institute, the technology industry gathering Park and Zhejiang University – Yiwu Incubation Center, electronic appliances, machinery manufacturing and other emerging industry booming. Existing high-tech enterprises, science and technology enterprises, enterprise information model 47, 35 city-level R & D centers, seven patent model enterprises at all levels; Chinese well-known trademarks and China Top Brand 16, National Inspection-free Product 6, Yiwu has become even the Zhejiang region’s most important industrial base and an important window of export-oriented economy.