Yiwu is embarking on a journey to be the center of the world's small commodity business.

As it is known to many, Yiwu is filled up with markets and clusters that are thousands of hundreds of businessmen. It was vitalized by and famous for its market mechanism with Chinese characteristics. From January to February this year, Yiwu has speeded up exports to Laos, South Korea, and many other members of the RCEP. In the first quarter, the "Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe" cargo train hit a historic record of dispatching 11 round-trip trains in a single day.

On April 3, a wholesaler in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, gives out new commodities to downstream retailers. Half a month ago, he made his order in Shopee, a cross-border e-commerce platform in southeastern Asia. Through custom clearance, air transportation, and other processes, they will reach their destination 3000 kilometers away.

Guohao receives 30 thousand deals like this every day. "No matter wholesale or retail, big or small orders, all can be directly delivered from Yiwu." Now, Guohao is planning to make its way into the Latin American market.

People in Yiwu know that market always has the newest game. Yiwu, the big market, is home to 2.1 million micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and approximately 32 million employees, which have been closely connected to form the trade sphere.

On November 18, 2021, the X8020 "Yixinou" China-Europe freight train, loaded with Yiwu small commodities, set off from Yiwu West Railway Station and headed for Madrid, Spain, which is 13,052km away. On the same day, the Yiwu-Xinjiang-Europe Freight train marked its seventh anniversary. (Photoed by Gong Xianming)

Remaining the hub of the world's small commodity trade, Yiwu is stepping up its development. By means of digitalization, the port function and shipping resources of Ningbo Zhoushan Port are advancing and more inclusive than ever before.

Industry insiders predict that in the future, goods from Yiwu will go out of the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea and be unloaded at the Piraeus port of Greece, which is an important node of the Belt and Road cooperation between China and Greece and can go directly to the inland of Europe by railway

Editor: Fan Wenwu