NDRC and Other Departments: Push for Upgrading Daily Necessities, Food, Apparel, Home Appliance, and Automobile Industrial Consumer Goods Markets

36Kr learned that the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have issued the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Consumption Infrastructure Construction and Promoting Positive Interaction Between Consumption and Investment. The opinions call for strengthening the construction of urban and rural commodity trading markets. They urge upgrading agricultural product wholesale markets, farmers' markets, rural fairs, township commercial centers and other agricultural product markets, and improving supporting facilities such as market stalls, water supply and drainage, power supply, lighting, and waste treatment. They also call for upgrading markets for daily necessities, food, apparel, home appliances, automobiles and other industrial consumer goods, and enhancing supporting facilities for warehousing, sorting, packaging, and fire safety. In addition, they promote smart upgrades of urban and rural commodity trading markets, including wider use of digital applications such as electronic settlement, smart weighing, contactless payment, and traceability management, aiming to build modern commodity trading markets that integrate online and offline channels, combine wholesale and retail, and offer convenient services.