an international-oriented commercial city as a rising commercial city in the center of zhejiang province, covering an area of 1,105 square km, yiwu boasts a total population of over 1.6 million in its 7 boroughs and 6 towns, including 680,000 native population, 750,000 temporary population and 200,000 floating population. more than 6000 foreign businessmen from near 100 countries and regions and 26,000 of 40 domestic minorities stay in the urban area. always stick to the scientific development outlook as our theme. in 2004, with the guidance of the scientific development outlook, yiwu deepened the development strategy of “building the city on commerce”. economy and society maintained a comprehensive, harmonious and sustained development. according to the statistics, in 2004, the gdp of yiwu reached 28.2 billion yuan, a 17.3% increase of that in last year; fiscal revenue 2.954 billion (local, 1.51 billion), 109.6% of the adjustment plan; social capital assets investment 12.088 billion, an increase of 20.4%; saving deposits 48.277 billion, an increase of 21.32%; social retail value 6.005 billion, an increase of 14.4%; disposable income of urban resident 17,153 yuan per capita and net income of farmer 6,969 yuan per capita, an increase of 15.3% and 13.4% respectively, taking out the rise in prices. in the terms of comprehensive development level of economy and society, yiwu ranked the 17th in the top 100 counties of the country and the 1st of the 22 county-level cities in zhejiang province in 2003. in 2004, yiwu ranked the top among the most favorite cities of county level in the eyes of domestic and overseas public. in 2004, the “five insist” is attached most importance in carrying out scientific development outlook and striving to construct a harmonious society, namely, insist on regarding economic development as the central task, insist on developing in an all-round way, insist on considering human-oriented, insist on reform and innovation and insist on strengthening party building. insist on regarding economic development as the central task yiwu constantly believes that, in order to implement scientific development outlook and achieve rapid economy development, we should unremittingly insist on regarding economic development as the central task. yiwu has persisted the strategy of “building the city on commerce” and the development strategy of regarding the market as the core for 23 years with 7 alternations of leadership and continuously endows it with new meaning. in 2004, yiwu kept pace with the times, upgraded quality of products, optimized economic structure and intensified industry quality. aiming at building an international-oriented commodities circulation center, yiwu speeded up the plan and construction of the international trade mart. the first phase of the second part of the project was completed and open for business. the second phase with auxiliary facilities are under construction smoothly. at present, the market of yiwu boasts an area of 2.6 billion square meters with 50,000 booths and 200,000 persons engaging in business. the market gathers 320,000 varieties of goods of 1,502 categories from 34 trades. the annual trade volume of the china commodities city ranks the top among the specialized markets of china for 14 years successively. the first and second parts of the international trade mart are put to operation, which enables yiwu market a new span. the market of yiwu has not only become the biggest modernized market in the world but also brings along the fast development of the emerging tertiary industry, such as exhibition, shopping and tourism, logistics, etc. with a view to strengthening pillar industry, yiwu continued the strategy of “trade industry promotes manufacturing industry”, stressed structure adjustment and industry upgrading, vigorously pushed technical innovation of enterprises forward and persisted in the road of new-pattern industrialization. improvement and rectification of the development zones and the land market produced a marked effect. and we also achieved remarkable success on intensive development of land, construction of standardized factory buildings, technical innovation of enterprises, listed stocks and setting up of brands. the industry construction was continuously optimized and the building of the international commodities manufacturing base was speeded up. in 2004, the industrial gross turnover reached 49.25 billion yuan, including industry of large scale 18.67 billion yuan, 20.1% and 33.3% of increase respectively. 118 technical innovation projects had started (including 23 projects with an investment larger than 20 million yuan) with a total investment of 3.1 billion yuan, 40% more than that of last year. there are 32 famous brands and 11 famous products of or above jinhua municipal level, including 2 china famous products, making a new breakthrough. 2 more limited joint-stock companies were set up. zhejiang nengdali group co., ltd was listed on the singaporean stock market.