Yiwu is the largest small commodity wholesale market in the world. You can find almost anything in this county-level city in China's Zhejiang province. Over 75,000 stores in Yiwu International Trade Market are filled with merchants from all over the world, who try to dig business opportunities from over 1.8 million kinds of commodities here.
People say that if you spend 8 hours a day roaming the market and only 3 minutes in each store, it would take you a year and a half to finish your shopping-adventure here.
“This is massive. I’ve never seen anything like it." said Yahye Dineh, a merchant from Seattle, United States, who was doing business at Yiwu International Trade Market for the first time, "This is the first time I had to take a cab ride from one side of the district to another just to find something else.
During the first nine months of the year, Yiwu exported 168.9 billion yuan worth of goods. That’s $25.6 billion, a year-on-year growth of 5 percent. Today, Yiwu has trade ties with over 219 countries and regions around the globe.
If you are about to receive your Christmas presents, chances are they are made in China, exported from Yiwu. Around 60% of the world's Christmas decorations and presents come from factories surrounding Yiwu. But inside Yiwu International Trade Market, everyday feels like Christmas.
"For Christmas, foreign traders come to our shop to select our products or make orders online." said Cao Xiaogang, chairman of Xie Xin Toys Co., Ltd, "Thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative and the Yiwu-Europe freight trains, our Christmas sales have increased by 20-30% this year."
Remote control cars designed by Chinese companies. (People's Daily Online/Kou Jie)
Cao started selling toys about 30 years ago. At first, he only had one square meter of space to do business. Later he got a bigger shop. He said Yiwu International Trade Market supports vendors like him in expanding his small businesses internationally. Now he has over 120 employees doing sales.
The trade market is also expanding internationally. According to Lou Yuanbin, director of supply chain and foreign cooperation of Zhejiang China Commodities City Group Co., Ltd, the trade market has plans with Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Moscow-based company Kiev Square to collaboratively open branch markets overseas. "We are also planning to open markets in Southeast Asia." said Lou, "The Belt and Road Initiative has been guiding companies like ours to actively expand overseas.”
人民網(wǎng)外宣融媒體團隊，日前探訪義烏小商品市場,。我們看到,，這個馳名中外的小商品批發(fā)市場，已不再是廉價商品的海洋,，創(chuàng)意,、創(chuàng)新、開放,、融入世界,，正在重新定義這個著名小商品經(jīng)濟中心，也重塑著“中國制造”的形象,。
在義烏國際商貿城,，7.5萬家商鋪一家接著一家,鱗次櫛比，超過180萬種商品，琳瑯滿目,。如果一個人每天花8個小時在貿易市場里挑選,，哪怕每家店只停留3分鐘，也需要一年半的時間才能逛完整個市場,。
2014年開通的“義新歐”班列,，將義烏和世界進一步緊密相連。來自世界各地的客商,，云集義烏,，從多達180 萬余件的小商品海洋中挑選滿意的商品，運往他們的國家,。
如今的義烏,，與世界上219個國家和地區(qū)建立起活躍的貿易關系。“每天都是圣誕節(jié)”是對義烏的工廠的生動描述,。圣誕節(jié)臨近，世界上60%的圣誕商品都來自這座手工藝大城,。隨著 “一帶一路” 的推近和中歐班列運行效率的提升,，今年義烏的圣誕商品銷量比去年提高了三成。
今年前九個月,，義烏市商品出口額高達1689億元,。
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