Yiwu in East China's Zhejiang province was listed among the first bunch of national logistics hubs, according to a document jointly issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Transport.

The city of Yiwu boasts unique commerce and logistics advantages, developed distribution channels, and a lot of logistics service providers.

The Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe train service, which made its maiden journey from Yiwu to Madrid in Spain in 2014, now travels along nine international routes to over 30 countries.

These nine routes include trains between Yiwu and Central Asia, Spain, Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Belarus, UK, the Czech Republic and Poland.

So far, Yiwu has launched an overseas sub-mart, five logistic distribution centers and eight overseas warehouses to better serve the growing logistics needs arising from the YXE trains.

The city has also cultivated business connections with more than 210 countries and regions. And according to Yiwu customs, 1.08 million TEUs of goods were exported from Yiwu in 2021, up 15.9 percent, accounting for one-seventh of the containers leaving the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, another city in Zhejiang province.