Everything about Yiwu totally explained
Yiwu City is a city of about 1,000,000 people in central
Zhejiang Province in the
People's Republic of China.
History
Yiwu was founded in the
Qin dynasty, at or about
222 BC. Yiwu's long history flourished as early as the Neolithic Age. Yiwu first became a county in 222BC and was renamed Yiwu County in the year 624 AD. In May 1988, the former Yiwu County was upgraded to a county-level city. In 1995, Yiwu ranked the 47th among China's 100 most powerful counties/cities regarding comprehensive economic strength and in the same year listed as Zhejiang's sole city among the nation's experimental counties/cities of comprehensive reform. In 2001, the Yiwu overall economy ranked 19th of all counties (cities) of China.
Yiwu's early culture has given birth to many great figures in the fields of literature, art military, education, and engineering. Among these were
Chen Wangdao, China's first translator of the
Communist Manifesto;
Wu Han, historian and former deputy mayor of
Beijing;
Zhu Zhixi, the meritorious engineer in harnessing the
Yellow River, and
Zongze, a well-known general from the
Song Dynasty who resisted aggression by the
State of Jin.
Geography
Yiwu is located 100 km south of the city of
Hangzhou, the capital of
Zhejiang Province. The nearest city to Yiwu is
Dongyang. The area, as in most of the Province of Zhejiang, is in a mountainous region.
Administration
Yiwu is technically part of the greater Municipal region of
Jinhua, although it has a distinct urban core. It has under its jurisdiction 15 towns and 8 villages, which covers 1102.8 square kilometers, 15 square kilometers of which are urban area of 650,000 people (2005 estimate).
Economy
Yiwu is famous in China as a
commodities center. People from all over the world come to Yiwu City to buy commodities for resale in other parts of China or abroad. Yiwu's China Small-Commodity Market has for 6 consecutive years topped China's 100 top open markets and was for successive years listed as China's civilized open market. It has been named as the banner of China's market economy and with a large variety of quality but cheaper commodities, the market has become a shopping paradise for tourists. The Yiwu wholesale market concept habe provided the basis for the controversial in
Kalmar,
Sweden.
Its 4C-grade airport has opened over a dozen of air routes to such cities as
Beijing,
Guangzhou,
Shantou,
Weifang and
Shenzhen. The
Zhejiang-
Jiangxi Railway and
Hangzhou-
Jinhua Expressway pass through the city, making Yiwu an important local transportation hub. Express trains from
Shanghai South Railway Station take less than three hours.
Miscellaneous
Yiwu boasts an
Olympic quality stadium and a large
Christian Church. Many events associated with trade take place in Yiwu City. Yiwu also has a sizable
Korean and Muslim (both foreign and Chinese) population, mostly working in the import and export businesses. Yiwu is also known as the "sock town" as it produces over three billion pairs of socks for Wal-Mart, Pringle and Disney annually. Yiwu is also known as China's number one producer of fashion jewelry.
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