Yiwu is the largest and most famous one is “International Trade City”

Yiwu Wholesale Markets

Over the years, Yiwu has formed a unique “market cluster” with international trade city as the core and multiple professional markets and specialized streets supporting each other. People outside Yiwu call all those small commodity markets as Yiwu wholesale markets. In this sense, there are over 10+ small commodity wholesale markets in total.

Among all the Yiwu wholesale markets, the largest and most famous one is “International Trade City”. Its current location is just in the Futian Village in the old times, so people would also like to call “International Trade City” as “Futian Market”, or Yiwu Wholesale Market, as it is the name card of all wholesale markets.

Rest of other markets and Futian market supplement each other, in terms of product categories. Other markets specialize in categories that Futian market does not have, such as furniture, production materials, machinery, etc.

Besides the markets, the specialized streets are also an important part of Yiwu wholesale business. The specialized streets came into shape naturally when more and more business owners chose to do business along the streets near the wholesale markets. As there were even not enough booths available in the markets for businesses to operate there or the booths are rather too small. We’ll introduce them in more detail in the following.