Currently, Yiwu to Beijing, Yiwu to Guangzhou and other major cities ,the flight route network has improved steadily, amounted to more than 60 flights per week.

But this year the situation is different, influenced by the European and American countries ‘s economic down-turn, and the market’s demand shrink, the orders of the international purchasers gived to China were drop dramatically compared with previous years. Yiwu international trade city gift foreign trade company miss Lin revealed that because of the downturn of the market,lead to the buyers can’t block order, at the same time the price is pressure more severe.

Opened on 22 October, 2004, Yiwu International Trade City District 2 (Section F & G) occupies 483 Mu, over 600,000 m2 building area, above 8000 booths and the business entities exceed 10,000.  The first floor deals in suitcases & bags, umbrellas and raincoat; the second floor deals in hardware tools & fittings, electrical products, locks and vehicles; the third floor deals in kitchenware & sanitary ware, small home appliances,telecom facilities, electronic instruments & equipments, watches & clocks etc; the fourth floor is manufacturer outlet center and other high-class business area such as HK Hall, Korea Hall, Sichuan Hall etc; on the fifth floor, there is sourcing & service center of foreign trade; on floor 2-3 of the central hall, there are tourism & shopping center and Historical Museum of China Commodity City. There are supporting facilities, including industrial & commercial bureau, tax bureau, local police station, banks, restaurants, logistics, post office, telecom companies and other functional departments and service organizations, in the east subsidiary building. And the market has business building, office building, four-star hotel, east and west square as well as sightseeing bus around the market. In 2005, the China Yiwu International Trade City District 2 ISO9001 quality management system certification, ISO14001 environmental management system certification and the assessment of national AAAA Tourist Attraction.

The main products list show in Yiwu International Trade City District 2: Hardware and electric appliance, Electric, Luggage, Clocks & Watches, Hardware Tools & Fittings, Home Appliance(Shaver), Electronicdevice, Photographic supplies, Battery flashlight,Telecommunication equiment, Clocks & watches, Lockset, Electric Products, Hardware Tools & Fittings, Vehicle,Raincoat & Umbrellas,Suitcases & Bags(Schoolbags, Poly Bags) etc.

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Yiwu International Trade City District 1

Yiwu International Trade City District 3

Yiwu International Trade City District 4

Yiwu International Trade City District 5

Founded in October, 2001, the International Trade City District 1 is officially put into operation on 22 October, 2002 which occupies 420 Mu and a building area of 340,000 m2 with a total investment of 700 million. It is divided into five main business areas: subject of the market, manufacturer outlet center, shopping center, warehousing center and catering center. There are more than 9000 booths and over 10500 business entities in total.

The 1st floor deals inartifical flowers and toys, the 2nd floor for jewelryand hair ornament; arts & crafts and jewelry accessories on the 3rd floor, manufacturer outlet center on the 4th floor and sourcing center of foreign trade companies in the east subsidiary building.It divide to A,B,C,D and E sections.

The International Trade City District 1 is a commodity trading market integrating modernization, internationalization and informatization. It hsas realized several transformations since it was put into service: firstly, it has transformed from the traditional trade to modern business mode which is mainly of commodity exhibition, negotiation, order fulfillment and E-commerce. The International Trade City is honored as “Expo that Never Drop the curtain” by foreign customers; secondly, it has realized the transformation that foreign trade exceeds domestic trade, the daily customers reach 40,000 and 5,000 of which are foreign customers, the export rate of commodities is above 60%, more than 95% of the booths accept foreign trade business and the commodities are exported to over 200 countries and regions; thirdly, it has realized the intellectualization of hardware facilities in the market. The whole market has easy accessibility of crowd passage, logistics service and information. It is equipped with 37 elevators and escalators, the automobiles have access from floor 2-4 and over 13,000 broadband interfaces in the market enable every booth to realize online business and consult information on the net.

The Yiwu International Trade City 1 is an appointed shopping & tourism spot by Zhejiang Tourist Bureau and is titled the first “Five-star Market” of Zhejiang province by Provincial Industrial & Commercial Bureau. In 2005, the market passed the assessment of national AAAA Tourist Attraction.

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Yiwu International Trade City District 2

Yiwu International Trade City District 3

Yiwu International Trade City District 4

Yiwu International Trade City District 5

China Yiwu International Trade City, i.e. Yiwu International Trade Mart, Yiwu International Trade Center, China Commodity City, Yiwu market, Yiwu Futian Market.

A Bit Of History:

In recent 30 years, the local people and government have been doing ONLY one thing – building this International Trade City.

Now they finally put 70,000+ shops and around 10 million products inside this city, all under one roof! And attract 150,000+ visitors from all over the world into this hall each day.

This is something like building Pyramid in ancient Egypt. They only did one thing and that thing made them famous all over the world!

For more details about what’s inside this huge mall, I’ll write one more article – YiwuFutian Market, as that name is more close to a market.

Yiwu International Trade City – District 1

This is the big brother of all the other districts. It was built in October, 2001 and put into use on Oct.22, 2002. Now already 7 years old.

The 4-floor-building occupies a total area of 340,000 m2, and holds 10,500+ shop fronts. Over 95% of the shops can do export.

Most of them can speak some English. They definitely understand “how much?” and can show the price on their calculators with no difficulties.

Shipping agents, fast serving restaurants, resting lounge, banks, and internet are all put inside. It’s actually pretty easy for buyers sourcing here.

1st floor is filled with toys and artificial flowers. 2nd floor is for jewelry. 3rd floor is for jewelry accessories, art & crafts.

4th floor is different. It’s only for factories to set up their own outlets centers, so you will only find outlets center on this floor. They are real factories, but the variety is also limited.

This district is also the busiest one, as it’s mainly for ladies and kids.

Related links: Yiwu International Trade City District 1 Yiwu Jewelry Market Yiwu Artificial Flowers Market Yiwu Toys Market YiwuArts & Crafts Market Yiwu Jewelry Accessories Market Yiwu Hair Ornament Market

Yiwu International Trade City – District 2

This District was put into use on Oct.22, 2004. It’s a 5-store- building and has an area of 600,000+ m2. Over 10,000 shop fronts are cubed from floor one to floor three.

Industries of bags & brief cases, umbrellas, rainwear are located on floor one.

Hardware and hardware accessories, electrical accessories, locks and auto products are on floor two.

Floor three is for home appliances, electronics & telecommunications, watches and clocks.

4th floor is also for factory outlets centers. Hong Kong Mall, South Korean Mall, Sichuan Mall are also located on this floor.

Like District one, this district also has shipping agents, banks, restaurants, telecom companies… And there is a four start hotel and two squares at both sides.

Another special thing about this district is that it’s an AAAA tourist destination with ISO9001 and ISO4001. So it’s much clean and modern-looking, with sightseeing lifts up and down.

Related links:Yiwu International Trade City District 2 Yiwu Suitcases & Bags Market Yiwu Sanitary Ware Market Yiwu KitchenwareMarket Yiwu Home Appliances Market Yiwu Telecommunication Appliance Market Yiwu Clocks & Watches Market Yiwu Locks MarketYiwu Electric Products Market Yiwu Hardware Tools & Fittings Market Yiwu Vehicle Market Yiwu Rainwear & Umbrellas Market YiwuElectronics Market Yiwu Clothing Accessories Market

Yiwu International Trade City – District 3

District 3 is also a 5-store-building of 460,000 m2 with 7000+ shop fronts.

Different industries are put into different floors:

1st floor and 2nd floor are for glasses, pens, office articles, sports products, paper products.

3rd floor and 4th floor are for cosmetics & cosmetics accessories, buttons, zippers, and other fashion accessories.

All necessary facilities like logistics, banking, accommodation, catering and entertainment are also included inside.

Related Links: Yiwu International Trade City District 3 Yiwu Pens Market Yiwu Paper Products Market Yiwu Eyewear & SunglassesMarket Yiwu Office & School Supplies Market Yiwu Sports & Outdoor Market Yiwu Cosmetics Market Yiwu Mirrors & Combs MarketYiwu Imported Commodities Mall

Yiwu International Trade City – District 4

This is the youngest, but the best-bred strong brother. Opened on Oct. 21, 2008, the total area reaches 1,008,000 m2, has over 19,000 shops.

This district is greener, more environmental friendly and energy saving than the previous ones. It has modern facilities like automatic roof windows, rainfall collection system and solar energy generators, even a 4d cinema and a nice coffee shop.

1st floor is for socks. 2nd floor is for textile, gloves, and hats. 3rd floor is for shoes, ribbons, laces, ties, thread, and towels. 4th floor is for bras, underwear, belts, and shawls.

Yiwu International Trade City is the most innovative, largest wholesale market complex in China, and also one of the most advanced wholesale markets in the world.

Yiwu International Trade City – District 5

District five founded on 5 may,2011. market located in the south of  Yiwu  integrity Avenue, west and connecting International Trade City four districts, convenient traffic, unique location. Market area of 266.2 acres, building area of 640,000 square meters, total investment of 1.42 billion yuan, five points on the ground, two basements,It has more than 7,000 commercial spaces and mainly doing imported goods, bedding,textiles,knitted materials, automotive supplies and accessories industry.

Related links: Yiwu International Trade City District 4 Yiwu Socks Market Yiwu Belts Market Yiwu Bras & Underwear Market YiwuNeckties Market Yiwu Towels Market Yiwu hoes Market Yiwu Daily Use Products Market Yiwu Gloves & Mittens Market Yiwu Hats & Caps Market Yiwu Scarves & Shawls Market

Yiwu International Trade City Visiting Tips:

Wear comfortable shoes like trainers, business casual style clothes.

Take a pulling luggage for samples, a backpack for other stuff, and a bottle of water with you.

Browse according to the stall numbers, block by block, to cover as much as possible.

Ask for permission before taking photos.

Ask for new models if you think they might have.

Do not smoke outside of the smoking room.

Hiring a translator is necessary, but not a must-do if you just want to browse.

Welcome to China Yiwu International Trade City!

What is main markets in Yiwu market? When Yiwu market opens? What is the population of yiwu market every day? What is the products features in Yiwu market? What is the product range?

Main Markets: International Trade City.

The china international trade city is the most visited one. Some buyers go to yiwu BinWang market for textiles and fabrics.

Huangyuan market, also known as the socks market, was tore down and being on rebuilt now. If you find some webs still have that information, leave that web. The boys are not doing their homework.

Opening Hours: 8:00am-5:00pm, 7X365, except Spring Festival.

As most of the shop are not that on time, you won’t find many shops open even after 9:00. To avoid the traffic jams, the best visiting time would be 09:30-16:30. Many shops also close pretty early in the afternoon.

Population: 300,000+ Visitors/Day.

No including people inside shops like shop assistants,of course. There are definitely traffic jams around 9:00am and 05:00pm around the oldmarket districts.

Products Features: Cheap, OK Quality, Daily Using, Bulk Sale.

As around 70% shops are factory outlets, so for the same quality, you can always expect a cheaper price in Yiwu.

Most of the products are daily petty items like straws, hair clips, and plush toys. All produced in very large quantity and wholesaled in bulks.

You may hear questions like: how many containers of ribbons do you want? How much a kg of this kind of rings?

But don’t be scared away, almost all of them start accepting small orders because of this world economic turndown.(Each coin has two sides, ah?)

Products Range: Extremely Broad

Yiwu market covers up to 17 main industries, 9,000+ sub-industries, 420,000+ different products.

The strongest industries are: gifts & crafts, jewelry & jewelry accessories, toys, hardware & tools, Watches & Glasses, Office supplies, Electrical supplies, socks, needles, zippers, ribbons, shoes…

Segmentations: Extremely Good.

80,000+ shops do extremely well in marketing segmentation.

Even for items like hair band, the segmentation is beyond your imagination if you do not visit the market by yourself. And you can also expect to see dozens of shops just specialized in zipper heads.

Services: OK

Because of no weekends, no holidays, everyday 08:00-17:00, most shops only do wholesale. So you may find many of them are not that warm. The only time they start show great interests is when you begin to place orders.

But now as the hard time goes on and on, they do show more and more smiles and patience. Some even start greeting you at the entrance door and offer free bottle waters.

If you need top notch yiwu agent services, please feel free to contact us.

The history of Yiwu Market. Yiwu market has grown out of nothing and expanded from small to large, from quality accumulation to qualitative leap.

Sugar-For-Chicken Feathers

Yiwu is a mountainous region with large population but poor land. The land was so poor that the local peasants had no others choices but got into trade for a living even before 1600s.

It’s a very old trading way.

Being lack of money, they had to use something else to trade for what they wanted – chicken feathers. Because chicken feathers were a superb material to make fertilizer, and fertilizer could make their poor land grow more grains.

Moreover, the good-looking feathers could also be made into feather dusters for exporting.

So they chose one of their native products – brown sugar, then cooked with ginger and shaped in big chunks. These sugar chunks were welcomed by people of all ages and regions.

This is the famous sugar-for-chicken feathers pattern.

Sugar Shoulder-pole Man

Each year between October to April next year, when there wasn’t much to do on farmlands, and there wasn’t enough food on table, these Yiwu men carried sewing needles, threads, and sugar chunks… in their bamboo baskets, using a shoulder-pole, and travelled extensively near and far to trade with rural villagers for chicken feathers.

To attract customers, they also used a rattle drum.

Rural villagers called these Yiwu men: Sugar Shoulder-pole Men (SSM).

The first group of Sugar Shoulder-pole Men (SSM) came in 1600s. They were a group of brave solders under a famous general fighting back pirates, after winning the battle and cleaned the invaded pirates. They went back home.

These solders were more used to travelling like an army than staying on poor farmland as a peasant. So they became the guru of Sugar Should-pole Men!

Years after, Sugar Shoulder-pole Men (SSM) reached a very large number, so there had to be wholesale markets to supply them.

So the earliest wholesale markets came out around 1700s in Yiwu. This kind of business went on and on for centuries until PRC was born in 1949.

Planned Economy VS. Sugar-For-Chicken Feathers

As PRC is a communist country, no free trade was allowed. Sugar Shoulder-pole Men (SSM) were considered as being capitalism and was harshly pressed down.

But the mountainous Yiwu still remained unchanged, poor land still remained unchanged, people still remained starved, even it was already communist country.

People still needed food, so many of them were still in this business secretly, or in a way that could not be easily caught up by government.

As long as there were SSM, there had to be wholesalers to supply them. Wholesalers were also capitalism, big trouble. But they managed to trade along the streets or in some secret places.

It was too risky for both SSM and wholesalers. Each time they got caught up, all their goods and earnings would be confiscated, some were even put into prison.

This kind of dangerous cat-and-mouse game lasted for 33 years until some day in April. 1982.

Someone Pulled The Trigger!

After her goods were confiscated again, Mrs. Feng Ai Qian, a young woman with 5 kids to support, had no choice but went directly to the then Yiwu Mayer, Mr. Xie Gao Hua, and told him that she desperately wanted to do business, other poor people also wanted to do business. Why they could not do business? Why the governor didn’t care his people’s living?

After a short but intense argument, she slammed the door and went out!

This slam also slammed the mayor went into a-several-month investigation. After his investigation, he found that the secret wholesales were all in a better living condition than those peasants. So he finally made a very brave decision: let the ball roll!

That was a very brave decision, as he could easily lose his job or even be put into prison for supporting capitalism.

But he did that, only for the wellbeing of his people. And it was very lucky that Mr. Deng Xiao Ping (the China president who shot the gun for Reform and opening-up) was also considering free economy then.

One of the First Free Marketplaces In PRC’s History

Then the local government put cement boards over a stink ditch nearby Huqingmen street, and set up around 700 stalls on September. 1982!

That was one of the first free marketplaces in PRC’s history. The first Yiwu market (also wholesale market) was born!

According to the development history of Yiwu market, market expansion and building has happened nearly every 2 years.

The second generation of Yiwu market which was called “Xinmalu market” replaced the first one “Huqingmen market” in 1984.

In 1986, “Chengzhong Road market” replaced “Xinmalu market” which was the third generation of Yiwu market.

In 1988, this marketed expanded constantly which had extended to Huangyuan Road.

Then Yiwu Municipal Party Committee and the Government decided to build a large-scale indoor commodity market in 1991.

Phase I and Phase II of the fourth generation market finished every 2 years. After the completion of Binwang market in 1996, all the rebuilding of booths and shacks were finished.

In 2001, Yiwu started building the fifth generation market – International Trade Mart Phase I, II and III. Yiwu had created such amazing and significant achievements in such a short time which has attracted a lot of people’s attention from all over the world. Since 30 years of reform and opening up, Yiwu has seized the commercial opportunity of development and has been expanding and promoting all the time. By changing location 5 times and expanding 10 times, Yiwu has experienced a lot of transmutations.

Now Yiwu has been named “The biggest global wholesale commodity market” by the United Nations, World Bank and other world authoritative organizations.