Market overview of Zhanjiang Xiashan Aquatic Products Wholesale Market

Zhanjiang Xiashan District Aquatic Products Wholesale Market was founded in 1996. It is located in Shengli Changdi Road, a prosperous area in the center of Xiashan District, Zhanjiang City. It is close to Haibin Avenue and has a 300-meter-long, can The deep-water fishing port terminal where thousands of tons of ships dock is only 15 to 20 minutes' drive from Zhanjiang Airport. Land, water, and air transportation are very convenient. Especially after several years of careful cultivation, today's Xiashan Aquatic Products Wholesale Market has developed into one of the four major professional aquatic product markets in Guangdong Province. It is the largest and most active aquatic product wholesale market in western Guangdong; it covers an area of 70 acres, construction area of ??37,000 square meters, 12,000 square meters of high-standard parking lot, 1,500-ton ice storage, 300-ton ice factory, 5,000-square-meter trading hall, more than 700 various aquatic product stalls, 3,000 tons Cold storage (2 buildings), underground water supply with a daily water output of 100 tons, seawater supply system and purification facilities with a capacity of 500 tons, and more than 50 quick freezing and processing production lines; in its specially designed business center, you can also enjoy complete Internet information, banking, postal and telecommunications services. It is precisely these good "hardware" and the reputation of being the hometown of "prawns" that make today's Xiashan aquatic products wholesale market increasingly active. The daily transaction volume can reach 500 tons at its peak, and the annual transaction volume is more than 400,000 tons. The turnover is billions of yuan.

The mainstream of market transactions is shrimp trading. Over the years, the transaction volume of shrimp has accounted for about 70% of the total market transaction volume. According to relevant statistics, the total national shrimp production in 2004 was about 300,000 tons, and the Xiashan Aquatic Products Wholesale Market’s transaction volume reached 220,000 tons, accounting for more than 2/3 of the national shrimp production. It is the largest shrimp trading center in the country, and the national processing center. The vast majority of exported shrimp comes from this market. So someone said that this is how to describe the shrimp trading volume in the market: "When Chinese people eat, at least three of the five shrimps on their plates come from the Xiashan Aquatic Products Wholesale Market in Zhanjiang; when Americans eat, at least one of the five shrimps on their plates comes from Xiashanshui." Product Wholesale Market”. This statement is by no means an exaggeration.