Xinfadi Wholesale Market, Agricultural wholesale market in Fengtai District, Beijing, China
Xinfadi Wholesale Market is a covered wholesale food market in Xinfadi Village, Fengtai District, Beijing. It opened on 16 May 1988 on one hectare enclosed with wire netting by 15 villagers led by Zhang Yuxi, using 150,000 yuan. By 2017 it covered 112 hectares, with three floors above ground and two underground in 2018.
The market was established in 1988 as a major distribution point for the city's food supply. Its creation marked the beginning of a centralized system that would become essential to how Beijing feeds itself.
Locals call Xinfadi the city's "vegetable basket" and "fruit bowl". The name of the village itself was once written 新坟地 ("new grave land"), after a graveyard leveled in 1958 to make farmland; it later became 新发地, roughly "newly developed land". Since August 2020 the market has been wholesale-only, closed to individual shoppers.
Since August 2020 the market has no retail function and is closed to individual shoppers; only wholesale buyers are admitted. The main market south of the railway reopened on 15 August 2020, the northern section on 6 September 2020. Pork wholesale resumed on 28 September 2020 for buyers only, with no imported frozen pork traded.
The market's site was once called "Xinfendi" (新坟地, "new grave land") because a graveyard there was leveled in 1958 to create farmland; the name later changed to Xinfadi, roughly "newly developed land." The village's sandy loam soil suited vegetable growing.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 93,152 contributors worldwide.