A view of the Shiwa farm produce market in Dalang Subdistrict, Longhua District. The renovated market, which was shut down in March due to incompatible infrastructure and lack of standardization in management, has since invested more than 7 million yuan (US$1.03 million) to carry out an overhaul.

A testing center for commodities will be operating at the market after it is put into use Sunday, allowing for spot checks and stricter control of food safety. Traceable barcode printing electronic scales will be assigned to each store owner at the market, so that each transaction is transmitted to the market’s data center in real time. Customers can use touchscreens or mobile terminals to check all of the commodities available at the market, which reportedly will be Longhua’s first, and even Shenzhen’s first, intelligent farm produce market to tap into information technology. Lin Xiaobin