Yiwu

Yiwu is a city of about 1.2 million individuals in focal Zhejiang area, China. Its developed region made of Yiwu and Dongyang urban areas was home to 2,038,413 occupants at the 2010 evaluation. The city is renowned for its little product exchange and energetic market and as a provincial visitor goal. Authoritatively, Yiwu is a district level city under the locale of Jinhua. Yiwu was established as Wushang County in 222 BC, amid the Qin line. It was renamed Yiwu County in 624 AD. Exchange has been verifiably imperative in Yiwu since the encompassing region has minimal arable soil.
Indeed, even before 1600s, Yiwu men would convey sewing needles, strings, sugar lumps and other little wares in their bamboo bushels, utilizing a shoulder-post, and travel to encompassing country towns in return for chicken quills. Chicken quills could be either utilized as a manure for their very own territories, or made into plume dusters for trading. This "Sugar-For-Chicken Feathers" convention had moved toward becoming piece of Yiwu culture. As the exchanging populace became bigger, the most punctual discount markets developed in Yiwu around 1700s. After the establishing of People's Republic of China in 1949, the free market was once viewed as industrialist and henceforth authoritatively stifled, constraining Yiwu individuals to proceed with their exchange subtly.