Some basic statistics capture the scale of the Yiwu International Trade Market: 6.4 million square metres, 75,000 stands, over 2.1 million product lines, and around 220,000 visitors a day. Nearly 600,000 containers are loaded here every year and shipped to more than 200 countries or territories.
Yiwu doesn’t showcase flashy innovations but instead comprises a reliable manufacturing network dedicated to the large-scale production of everyday goods. An order placed at a stand goes out to decentralised clusters of factories spread across the Zhejiang countryside and beyond.