Huge Markets
1. Changsha Red Star Market
Red Star Industry Farm and Sideline Products Market is a state-level, city standard industrialized agriculture leading enterprise, a state-level key farm products wholesale market and the key construction project in ¡°the eleventh five-year plan¡± certified by the agriculture ministry of China and municipal government. It is the largest-scale comprehensive farm products market in central south region, incorporating 11 operations such as vegetables, animal products, fruits, marine products, eating oil and grains, dry food, sugar & wine non-staple food, groceries, flowers, computers and electrics, building facilitates etc.. With principle being big wholesale volume, big goods circulation, it has become the collecting and allocating centre of farm products trade in central south area. Now there are 12,000 businessmen in the market and its logistics radiates 26 provinces, cities, autonomous region, and more than 2,000 towns all over China .
It makes use of its rich farm products resources and perfect marketing network and build some 100, 000 acres sales bases matching agricultural products production for fresh and living products item construction, like vegetables, fruits, animal products and marine products to make efforts to put ¡°market+ base+ farmer¡± mode into practice, to call the example effect of bases into full play and to forge the golden brand of ¡°Red Star¡± agricultural products.
It has long integrated market resources in large scale way, expanded and enhanced current advantages of farm and sideline products, place great emphasis of the market development in agriculture industrialization job like developing farm products production leading force and farm products deep processing and particularly the processing industry of farm and sideline products is treated as the key line to expand, strength, deep develop and further explore agriculture industry of Hunan. The Red Star Meat Processing Centre entered the first group of organizations who got the 10 billion Agriculture Development Bank loan signed by the People's Government of Changsha and Agriculture Development Bank in December of 2005 and then came into operation at the end of 2006.
With market developing and improving marketing- sale system unswervingly, it always devotes itself to expanding and strengthening various operations of farm products, further boosting regulations construction, enhancing the enterprise culture, human resources and enterprise inner control in a complete way and integrating different resources inside and outside enterprises, trying to make market construction and development keep pace with time and start another leap.
2. Gaoqiao Market
It stands in the juncture of Jingzhu Highway and Chengxia (Chengdu-Xiamen) Highway, and is ¡°95 Key Task¡± and the important market construction project supported by the state. In addition, it is the largest-scale comprehensive wholesale market of state level in central south area and the fourth biggest market.
It takes 1,000 acres, has a capital accumulation of over RMB 800 million, and builds 500 thousand sq.m. houses used for operation, storage and related usages with 6,000 stalls and 50,000 operators. It does major business in fields of sugar, wine, non-staple food, daily make-up, household electrics, groceries, feather articles, stationary, Chinese and western medicines, farm and sideline products, and building materials and is now building modern trading city with brand-new concept, bringing in dry food market of bird's nest, fin, abalone and haslets, further improving operating goods and enhancing market taste. It now owns fixed assets worth over RMB 2 billion and performs a trade volume over RMB ten billions and thus is titled as advanced organization in provincial financial and trading system.
Now it has established purchase and sale relation with thousands of commercial enterprises in Hunan . There are about 2,000 Hunan regional chief agents, chief distributors from 1,400 famous quality products like Wuliangye and Jiugui wine in this market. Since its opening, it has particularly carried out the ¡°formal management, key introduction, invigorating from section to section, focusing development¡± and ¡°promote commerce by culture, refresh market by culture¡± development strategy and gradually introduced some 10 large special wholesale markets, such as Fujian Food City, Guangdong Food City, Daily Makeup City, Fine Wine & Beverage City, Farm and Sideline Products City, Tea City, Medicine Circulation Park etc., its sale covering all Hunan cities, radiating over 10 cities and provinces in central south area and surrounding area. It has held successfully ¡°98 Autumn National Sugar & Wine Trade Fair¡± and successively sponsored 9 sessions ¡°Hunan Spring Festival Goods Fair¡±. Ten thousands of manufacturers are come happy and return satisfied. The total trade volume reached RMB 30 billion in 98 Autumn National Sugar & Wine Trade Fair, surpassing past records and further accelerating market development and prosperity.
3. Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market
Changsha Mawangdui Farm Products Co.,Ltd is the leader in Hunan agriculture industrialization. Locating beside Mawangdui in Changsha , 1.5 km away from Changsha Railway Station, its geographic location makes its traffic very convenient. So far, it is a state-level huge market and a center wholesale market for fresh and living farm products appointed by the Agriculture Ministry. The 24-hour market has become a comprehensive market group, doing businesses more in vegetable wholesales and less in farm and sideline products wholesale.
It takes 107,000 sq.m. floor area. and 49,000 sq.m. construction area. It has 6 branches, that is, vegetable wholesale market, dry food and ingredients wholesale market, seeds wholesale market, fruits wholesale market, frozen operation company and information inquiry company. With marketing network covering over 20 provinces and cities and over 400 towns and areas, it has become the vegetable collection and allocation center serving Changsha, facing Hunan and even the whole country, the price guide center, the information release center and is also the center wholesale market for fresh and living farm products appointed by the Agriculture Ministry. 
