Yiwu is one of the "best cities" in the country to engage in the comprehensive conditions of e-commerce. One of the most important is that Yiwu has always insisted on taking the express logistics industry as an important focus to promote market transformation and upgrading and a breakthrough in reform and innovation, and has built a powerful logistics system with extensive roads, railways, sea routes, waterways, postal routes, and networks, achieving full coverage of important cities across the country, forming a logistics "depression effect", attracting more and more e-commerce companies to put orders and parcels in Yiwufa.
For many e-commerce companies, Yiwu has the advantage of supply that other cities do not have, and there are 2.1 million kinds of goods in the market for enterprises to choose from, even start-up e-commerce companies can quickly find products that meet their requirements. In addition, the cost of express delivery and warehousing is lower than that of first-tier cities, which invisibly reduces the logistics costs of small and medium-sized e-commerce enterprises, making Yiwu a fertile land for entrepreneurs and a "lakeside home" for strivers.
The first three quarters of 2021 are another critical time. After bidding farewell to the first half of the opening year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", Yiwu express delivery business volume continued to show "step-by-step" growth in the second half, thanks to the superposition of policies such as the pilot free trade zone, the comprehensive bonded zone, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone, and the import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zone.
According to the data provided by the Yiwu Postal Administration, from January to September, the business volume of the city's express delivery service enterprises reached 6.54 billion pieces, an increase of 38.4% year-on-year; the business income reached 16.92 billion yuan, an increase of 24.3% year-on-year. The volume of express delivery business continues to rank second in the country, maintaining a high-quality development trend.