The 31st China Yiwu International Commodities Fair - Export Goods Exhibition opened in Yiwu City, a global trading hub known as the "world's supermarket," on Tuesday with a record exhibition space.
Running from Tuesday to Friday at the Yiwu International Expo Center in east China's Zhejiang Province, the event features a record exhibition space of 110,000 square meters, and 4,799 standard booths, up 21.6 percent from last year.
More than 180,000 purchasers are expected at the event.
The over 2,900 participating enterprises are presenting a diverse range of products ranging from daily consumer goods, hardware tools, construction hardware, electronics, toys, to mechanical machinery, along with cutting-edge sectors like smart home appliances, 3C digital products, new energy products, and industrial electrical equipment.
For the first time, the fair has set a special exhibition area on foreign trade premium products.
31st China Yiwu Int'l Commodities Fair opens in Zhejiang
China has established more than 5,500 green mines at or above the provincial level, marking positive progress in the country's green mining development, an official from the Ministry of Natural Resources said at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday ahead of this year's World Earth Day.
According to Dong Qingji, deputy director general of the Ministry of Natural Resources' department of mineral resources protection and supervision, green mining requirements have been written into the Mineral Resources Law and the Ecological Environment Code, providing strong legal backing. A working system featuring government guidance, departmental coordination, enterprise leadership and public supervision is now largely in place.
China is accelerating the construction of green mines and will organize the selection of a new batch of national-level green mines. Currently, there are over 1,000 national-level green mines and more than 4,500 provincial-level green mines in the country.
Looking ahead, the ministry will continue to promote the construction and operation of all newly built mines in accordance with green mine standards, while speeding up the green transformation and upgrading of existing operating mines. For mines that have not yet initiated green transition, they are required to launch green mine construction as soon as possible, fulfill their obligations for ecological restoration in mining areas, and strengthen ecological restoration and governance in these areas.
China builds over 5,500 green mines, advances sustainable mining
