On February 22, with more than 200 domestic and foreign purchasers, business owners and guests, the "sweet potato economy" global trade sharing platform hosted by Lishui Municipal People's Government and organized by Lishui Municipal Bureau of Commerce was officially launched in Lishui, which is an important innovative measure for Lishui to implement the provincial party committee's decision and deployment, and to further implement the "sweet potato economy" to upgrade the "No. 1 open project".

As a national key overseas Chinese township with 415,000 overseas Chinese, Lishui has its own characteristics of "sweet potato economy". In recent years, Lishui has made every effort to develop an open economy based on its unique advantages. It has not only cultivated and formed many national foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases such as Qingyuan Pencil and Edible Fungi, Yunhe Wooden Toys, Longquan Auto Parts, etc., but also abounded with excellent manufacturing enterprises developed by the "potato economy". At the same time, in order to continuously cultivate the fertile soil for the development, Lishui has held fifth China Rural E-commerce Conference, fourth World Overseas Chinese Import Commodities Expo, and second Coffee Expo to speed up the backflow of nutrients from "vines" to "roots" and promote the transformation of "Lishui people's economy" into Lishui economy.

"We hope that by building this platform, customers around the world can understand and connect Lishui at a higher level and larger platform, and promote the return of projects, headquarters and talents. Like sweet potatoes, the roots are rooted in Lishui, and the vines extend to all directions." Pan Yahong, secretary of the party group and director of Lishui Municipal Bureau of Commerce introduced that it is an important measure to build it, by which Lishui will further carry out actions such as the double cycle of Lishui people's economy, the expansion of domestic demand by 10 billion platforms, the visit of thousands of foreign businessmen to Lishui, the sale of thousands of products to the world, the upgrading of open platforms, and the cultivation of key players. Each of these actions has formulated highly targeted implementation measures. For example, Lishui will not only implement the cultivation project of "100 global trade ambassadors and 100 global trade bases" to build overseas sharing network this year, but also carry out more than 100 consumption-promoting activities to drive consumption of more than 10 billion yuan, build 100 Lishui Mountain Broadcasting "common prosperity workshops", and two 10-billion-level e-commerce industries. The "government+enterprises" group participate in overseas exhibitions will also be carried out as scheduled, and the policy support will be strengthened.

In addition, Lishui will invite thousands of purchasers and investors every year. Through the implementation of the 195 action plan for the cultivation of foreign trade entities, the proportion of foreign trade enterprises in manufacturing projects with a total investment of more than 100 million yuan per year is expected to be more than 27%. "We will also make efforts in three other areas." Pan Yahong said that in order to build a more resilient, more dynamic and more competitive "sweet potato economy", will focus on promoting the optimization and upgrading of the ecological industry, building supporting structure of the open economy, and strengthening the supply of open policies, so as to build the industrial, ecological and institutional system and explore the latest development path.

"Thanks to Lishui Municipal Party Committee and Government for building the platform, so that more overseas Chinese, industry experts and international friends can enjoy the business opportunities of Chinese engineer bonus and digital economy bonus." After being employed as the first batch of "global trade envoys", Zhou Lingyi, chairman of Hangzhou Yunzhu Technology Co., Ltd., said, he will attract investment and bringing more upstream and downstream enterprises of cross-border trade ecology to settle in Lishui. Lishui will hire 100 "global trade ambassadors" this year to make "sweet potato" stronger and more extensive through wisdom and strength.

After the launch, the Key Industry International Sourcing Fair attracted many famous domestic and foreign buyers and suppliers immediately attend. From cultural and creative products, office supplies, to massage machines, folding cars, the colorful "Made in Lishui" attracted the attention of many merchants. "The 'sweet potato economy' is very vivid. It can also be seen that Zhejiang is a place of constant innovation and vitality, and we are looking forward to this trip." A buyer from Yemen said that he was surprised and excited about the scale of the pencil industry in Lishui, and hoped to gain more business opportunities by further expanding the "business circle of friends" in Lishui.