Large agricultural wholesale markets play an important role in stabilizing market supply. On November 28th, the first phase of Hubei's largest agricultural product trading center project was put into operation in Xiaogan, with a total investment of 30 billion yuan and an area of 8000 acres. After completion, it is expected that the annual transaction volume will exceed 100 billion yuan. The variety and quantity of various agricultural and sideline products will greatly enrich the dining tables of residents in central China. Early in the morning, in the agricultural product trading center, trucks of all sizes came and went, and various goods were quickly and orderly entering the market. The reporter saw in the fruit trading area that carts of apples, longans and other fruits were unloaded from trucks, and merchants were busy loading and storing them. Merchant Wang Xianyu: We have prepared 12 standard containers of goods, including pineapple from the Philippines, durian and longan from Thailand, as well as some domestically produced melons and some fruit sweet corn. To ensure the freshness and sufficient supply of goods, from November 23rd to 27th, all goods in the four major trading areas of fruits, vegetables, aquatic products, and frozen products of the Agricultural Products Trading Center will be centralized and stored, and all 3000 merchants will be fully stocked. On November 28th, 42000 tons of agricultural products entered the market, attracting about 2600 buyers, with a trading volume of 20000 tons and a trading volume of 170 million yuan. Xia Qiyong, Secretary of the Xiaonan District Committee of Xiaogan City, Hubei Province: Drawing a circle around Xiaogan, within a radius of 500 kilometers, except for Wuhan, major cities such as Zhengzhou, Changsha, Nanjing, Hefei, and Nanchang are all included. In the future, this will be a transfer and distribution center for agricultural and sideline products facing central China and even the whole country. (Lai Xin She)