Officially founded in 1996, Hunan Gaoqiao Grand Market is solely-owned and independently developed, unified positioned, and carries out investment attraction, operation and management by the Hunan Gaoqiao Grand Market Co., Ltd. Covering an area of 1000 mu (equals to about 666,667 square meters), with over 6 thousand superior business tenants and annual turnover of more than 100 billion RMB, it is honored as the Excellent Demonstration Market in China and China's Third Largest comprehensive Market. The Market has 8 professional sectors, including Food and Beverages Market, Agricultural and Sideline Products Market , Tea and Tea Ware Market, Hotel Supplies Market, Modern Trade Market, Stationery & Sports Goods Market, Medical & Pharmaceutical Market and Clothing and Textiles Market.

Business majors in nine categories include hotel supplies, drinks food, agricultural and sideline products, staionery and sports products and toys, household appliances, leather products and ornaments garments, drug and medicine, boasting more than 1.7 million types of products. Gaoqiao Grand Market is committed to build a global trade service platform. It has introduced several professional foreign trade service companies, set up the first trade incubator for overseas talents, and signed strategic agreements with multiple international (regional) enterprises.

By getting through the channels among international buyers, suppliers and commodity circulation, the market has become a development highland for domestic and foreign trade in central China. Gaoqiao Grand Market aims to become the [International Gaoqiao, Global Commercial Port". Based on constructing the fifth generation market, with e-commerce, and Modern Ecological Logistics Park and international trade as its main focus for development, the market will develop into a new Internationale informationize, and professional market with capabilities of [buy from the world and sell to the world".