Yongkang, Zhejiang Province, the largest professional hardware market in China, deals with tens of thousands of hardware and related products, radiating across the country and dozens of countries and regions in the world.
The history of Chinese hardware is in fact a history of human civilization and social progress, starting from the legendary Emperor Xuanyuan casting tripods on Shicheng Mountain in Yongkang, to the casting of swords in the Spring and Autumn and the making of crossbows by Han Dynasty, the industrious Yongkang people embarked on an arduous and brilliant road of hardware. "Sweat is reflected in the fire of the furnace, and we walk along the streets and lanes to break into the four directions". Five thousand years of hardware history, casting a famous "hardware capital - Yongkang."
In the 1990s, history once again favored Yongkang. The small hardware has nurtured a big market, and the good products have climbed up the high-tech, building a unique color of the world's famous hardware city--China Science and Technology Hardware City.
China Hardware City (China Science and Technology Hardware City) was founded at the end of 1992, after years of development and construction, has become the largest professional market of hardware, the State Economic and Trade Commission key contact wholesale market, the key market in Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Provincial star civilization standardized market, Zhejiang Province, the quality of the standard market, the National Hardware Professional Market Committee chairman of the unit. Up to now, China Science and Technology Hardware City has invested 370 million yuan in construction funds, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, with a building area of more than 670,000 square meters and 4,630 store stalls. The city is well equipped with hardware and software and perfect service facilities, including industry and commerce, public security, technical supervision, power supply, water supply, taxation, finance, transportation, postal service, school, medical service, information network and other service institutions. The city mainly deals with daily-use hardware, tools and hardware, construction hardware and electromechanical products, metal materials, machinery and equipment, decorative materials and other tens of thousands of products and related products, attracting more than 20 provinces and autonomous regions of the country and overseas merchants to come to do business and trade.
In recent years, China Science and Technology Hardware City, the transaction continued to grow, a variety of hardware products are not bad, in and out of the market traffic, logistics and increasing day by day, the market daily flow of passengers reached 10,000, the daily flow of goods has been more than 1,000 tons of hardware commodities are not only selling well domestically, but also sold to Southeast Asia, Central Asia countries, Europe, the United States, Russia and other 30 countries and regions. According to statistics, in 2000, the market turnover of China Science and Technology Hardware City realized 8.145 billion yuan (including the Fifth China Hardware Fair turnover of 2.23 billion yuan), the first half of the market turnover of 4.457 billion yuan, an increase of 14.5%. 2007 market turnover of 30.085 billion yuan, its turnover and growth has been for many years ranked first in the country of the same kind of market.
The development and prosperity of the Hardware City, Yongkang Hardware industry has played a booster role in the take-off, promote the development of the local economy, and realize the economic and social benefits of double harvest.