"Yiwu Port" officially upgraded to international inland port

Learned from the City Transportation Bureau, Yiwu port "was upgraded to a" world-class "inland port.
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) (hereinafter referred to ESCAP) 69th Annual Meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand on May 1, formally adopted by resolution of the intergovernmental the dry ports Agreement "(hereinafter referred to as the" Agreement "). By the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the General Administration of Customs of the Chinese delegation to participate in the deliberations of the Agreement, Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, China's first dry port cities included in the Agreement.
Yiwu international trade comprehensive reform pilot program proposed to support the construction of modern logistics and collection and distribution platform, a comprehensive full-featured 'port of origin' and 'destination port' "'Yiwu Hong Kong'. "Yiwu Port" upgraded, the city in the Asia-Pacific region will enjoy more preferential, more convenient customs clearance policies, in particular the Trans-Asian Railway, the relevant preferential policies of the Pan-Asian highway, is conducive to further improve Yiwu international influence in the international trade status, a positive and far-reaching impact on international trade comprehensive reform pilot.

It is understood that the city's development and ports, aviation, inland ports associated roads, waterways and other integrated transport network system as a priority, and actively reporting to the Ministry of Transport International Inland Port City. In June 2012, ESCAP held in Bangkok the dry ports agreements ad hoc intergovernmental meetings, Yiwu, as China's first dry port cities have been briefed. In October of the same year, ESCAP convened the third session of the Traffic and Transport Committee approved the draft text of the Agreement.