Municipal functions are improving increasingly. The government invests more than 10 billion each year in the infrastructure construction in the urban and rural areas. A framework of road building project for 100 km² city area is under construction and a series of municipal engineering and public projects have been completed. Up until 2004, the construction area in central urban district had already surpassed 52 km².

      Municipal management makes new steps forward. The government has established General Administrative Bureau of Law Enforcement to consolidate administration. Environment building and reconstruction has been strengthened. Yiwu is making its best to mold itself into an eco-city, an environment-friendly model city, a state-level garden city and a state-level garden city and a state-level civilized city. In 2004, Yiwu was honored as National Hygiene City.

      Integration of urban and rural areas develops smoothly. The government was the first in China to establish program of action for integration of urban and rural areas and the first city in Zhejiang to finish its integration layout of urban and rural communities. The government has implemented 10 agriculture-supporting policies to actively advance the industrialization of agriculture. It has also carried out activities such as “driving the rural economy by the market” and “village tourism”. With these effective efforts, farmers’ income has been growing remarkably these years.

      Regional exchanges and cooperation advance continuously. The government has shaped the theory of “develop Yiwu through exchanges and cooperation with others” and has successfully held “Yiwu Forum”. A mechanism of proceeding with all the neighboring regions to help each other with its own particular advantages for mutual benefit and development is gradually taking shape.