On the side of pretty Pearl River, Qingping Market is located at the crossing of Qingping Road and Tiyun Road. It spans about 1000 meters, covers an area of 11200m2, with 1200 sales counters. It is a market special for agricultural and sideline products and traditional Chinese medical materials, famous in the whole country for large scale, complete variety and good service.

This market was built in 1979. During the over 20 years since the reform and opening-up its transaction volume has increased year after year and become a significant distribution place for agricultural and sideline products and traditional Chinese medical materials with large scale, flexible transaction and broad coverage in Guangzhou. It deals in more than 600 varieties, including Chinese medical materials, fresh and dried fruits, fresh meat, eggs, poultry, aquatic products, seafood, preserved foods, vegetable, ceramic, jadeware, arts and crafts, flowers, birds, insects, cereals, oils, oilseeds, bran, and flour. It stands in fore rank of agricultural and sideline products markets of Guangzhou in market scale, stall quantity, listing goods quantity, business variety, quantity and volume of transaction. The Chinese medical materials market was approved by ¡°1 ministry and 3 bureaus¡± of the State Council in July of 1996 to become the first batch designated special market of Chinese medical materials.

Qingping Market attracts political VIPs and visitors all over the world to come by its various agricultural and sideline products and distinct oriental flavor. Leaders of China central government once inspected Qingping Market, officers of over 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, and many government officers, councilors, consulates, professors, journalists, and social celebrities from Britain, USA, Germany and other countries, such as former Prime Minister of Japan Toshiki Kaifu, ministers of Commerce, Transportation and Territorial Regulation of France, visited this market.

Qingping Market is a unique window in the southern gate of our country. Its continuous growth and vigorous vitality represents the prosperity of our socialist market economy and transfer information of increasingly abundant life of the Chinese people.