OREANDA-NEWS. New Zhougudui Market, situated at Daxing Town, opened for business yesterday morning. After the opening ceremony, nearly 300 fruit shops started their business.

Song Yanjun, deputy general manager of Zhougudui Market, said " the daily trading volume in the past was about 1000 tons, but the trading volume reached 1200 tons in the morning alone and the trading volume of the whole day is expected to surpass 2000 tons."

New market covers an area of 103 mu and is three times as large as the old one. Song said the shop owners can build their own freezers to store more kinds of fruit and it is expected that the daily trading volume will hit 3000 to 5000 tons in the coming 3 to 5 years.