Hunan Gaoqiao Grand Market, opened in 1996, is under the unified investment promotion, operation and management of Hunan Gaoqiao Grand Market Co., Ltd. with a total area of 667,000m2, over 9,100 business owners and above 200,000 relevant managerial personnel and employees engaging in businesses of 1.7 million kinds of commodities. The annual visits to Gaoqiao are more than 500 million, and the total annual trade volume of the market in 2021 has exceeded RMB 162 billion yuan. Gaoqiao is the 2nd biggest comprehensive market in China, the hundred-billion-level business and trade industry clusters, the key block of China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone Changsha Area, Chinese National Market Procurement Trade Pilot Market and Permanent Exhibition Hall of China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo.

Gaoqiao has developed 8 large specialized markets namely Beverages and Food Market, Modern Trade Market, Hotel Products Market, Stationary and Sports Goods Market, Agricultural Products Market, Tea and Tea Ware Market, Big Health Medicine Market, Clothing and Textiles Market as well as import and export trade platforms including China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Promotion Innovation Demonstration Park, Export Products Cluster Zone. 

Gaoqiao Grand Market is committed to achieving the sustainable development in Chinese business and trade field. Grounded on the developing trend of Chinese and international consumption and the reforming direction of the industries, Gaoqiao has explored the upstream and downstream channels in depth, adopted the development model of online and offline integration, domestic and foreign trade integration, and commercial industries interaction, built a Gaoqiao Global Business Value Sharing Platform, in order to serve consumers, traders and producers in China and the world and eventually to develop into a domestically first-class and internationally leading modern business and trade industrial cluster.