Where is Yiwu

Where is Yiwu?Many foreigners often ask the question.Yiwu is a city in central Zhejiang Province in China. It lies in the south of Shanghai and Hangzhou, the distance from shanghai to Yiwu is 300 km,the distance from Hangzhou to Yiwu is only 120 km. one-hour trip to Hangzhou International Airport. Guangdong Province and Fujian Province is to the south, Shanghai Economic Zone is on the north, Ninbo port is near on the east. It is adjacent to the Oriental Super Port – Ningbo Port. Yiwu enjoys a favorable place for developing and investing of economy.  It is in the middle of the west pacific coast and also adjacent to Shanghai and facing the pacific shipping channel. The city enjoys great geographical advantages.

Yiwu is the biggest supermarket in the world, but also the most important exhibition center for small commodities. Today,there are about twenty markets,fifty Specialized commerce Street,and cover an area of aroud 2.6 million square meters,with more than 400000 items classified in 1900 different categories,and had export to more than 212 countries and regions.Since the reform and opening policy, Yiwu has resolved to execute the development strategy of building the City by Prospering Commerce unswervingly, using the commodity industry as a leader to drive regional economy, and become a large market city and strong economy city from a traditional agricultural small county. In 2002, the whole city realized a domestic gross value of production of RMB15.6 billion Yuan and a total financial revenue of RMB1.66 billon Yuan. Financial institutions have outstanding of deposits of RMB29 billion Yuan, and farmers average net incomes of RMB5688 Yuan. In 2001, the Yiwu general economic index was 19th of all cities of the whole country. Furthermore, in recent years, Yiwu has been listed as one of the cities of leading the modernization in Zhejiang, one of the key regions of boosting urbanization in Zhejiang, and one of the first groups of strong cities of the expanding economic management authority. Currently, Yiwu is one of the regions with the most development active in Zhejiang. Even in the whole country, Yiwu have successively gained such honors as being the National Technical Project Advanced City, National Sports Work Advanced City, National Culture Work Advanced City, Zhejiang Civilized City, Zhejiang Educational Strong City, etc.. Furthermore, it has been awarded the National Double Support Model Cities Award four consecutive times

Yiwu scarf industry is one of the advantages of industry, mainly focused on the International Trade City, the fourth floor of the west side of the market in four districts, there were scarves operating more than 1,400 households, operating more than 1,000 stores, the business selling a variety of square, strip towel, scarves, silk, wool, cashmere, linen, rayon, polyester and other products readily available materials has attracted Tongxiang, Jiande, Linping, Huzhou and other enterprises in Yiwu market gathering, the annual production and sales of scarves Yu Yi, accounting for National scarf 70% of total sales, has become a national and global scarf wholesale main base. Outward up to 80% degree of industry, products are mainly exported to the United States, Japan, Korea, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and other countries and regions

Now you know Where is Yiwu?All in all,though Yiwu is not a city like shanghai,beijing or shenzhen but Small as it is, the sparrow has all the vital organs.no matter what you wish to do , Yiwu will be the best choice for you.