A businessman from Bangladesh talks about business on the phone at the Yiwu International Trade City in Yiwu, a city famous for selling small goods in East China's Zhejiang province Sept 13, 2018. [Photo by Tan Jin/Xinhua]

Figures released by the Hangzhou Customs showed that the trade volume between Zhejiang and countries involved in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2018 stood at 896.66 billion yuan ($132.3 billion), growing by 12.3 percent year on year, accounting for 31.4 percent of the province's total foreign trade volume and 10.7 percent of China's trade with BRI countries.