Zhejiang: Enhance and strengthen the Zhejiang Bulk Commodity Trading Center and actively promote the expansion of Zhoushan Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone

People’s Financial News, March 19 — According to “Zhejiang Release,” on the morning of the 19th, Liu Jie, Deputy Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Governor, presided over a meeting to specifically study the construction of a major commodity resource allocation hub and the high-quality development of foreign trade and economics. The meeting emphasized the need to raise political awareness, accelerate project construction based on overall interests, improve the infrastructure system for bulk commodity reserves, and enhance strategic reserves and supply capacity for oil and gas, ores, grains, and other key resources to strengthen the security of the industrial and supply chains. It also called for strengthening reform and innovation, continuously promoting the deep integration of storage, processing, and trade of bulk commodities, and further advancing the liberalization and facilitation of investment and trade in bulk commodities. Additionally, efforts should be made to optimize the ecological environment, strengthen and expand the Zhejiang Bulk Commodity Trading Center, increase the scale of bonded ship fuel refueling, actively promote the expansion of the Zhoushan Port Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and continuously improve services in trade, maritime affairs, and finance to better support high-quality local economic development.