Yiwu is a population of about 1.2 million inland cities. According to the monthly record of Hangzhou Customs, between September 2016 and August 2017, more than 600 factories and workshops around Yiwu produced Christmas-related products worth US$3 billion.

2/3 of the world's Christmas ornaments come from here

According to relevant data, there are more and more Christmas decorations shipped from Yiwu, Zhejiang. Today, nearly two-thirds of the world's Christmas ornaments come from Yiwu Cihna.

Some manufacturers of Christmas products claim that at least 30% of their orders are from the United States, while other goods are shipped from Yiwu to Russia, Latin America, and China.

Wang Min is a procurement organizer of Piaoma Exports Hong Kong Limited. She has to travel back and forth between Yiwu and China every year. This time, she accompanied Christmas purchaser Aneesh from India to purchase Christmas decorations. Wang Min said that this time mainly replenishment, purchasing Christmas decorations for a Marriott hotel in India, probably purchased 50,000 yuan of goods
"Christmas hot"

Although Christmas is not an official holiday in China, more and more people are beginning to accept this festival. According to the British "Economist" report, Santa Claus has become more famous in China than Jesus.

“My children really like Christmas. It feels like Spring Festival,” says Huang Aijuan, owner of a company that makes artificial Christmas trees.

Cai Qinliang is vice president of the Christmas Goods Industry Association of Yiwu City and has been in the Christmas industry for 15 years. In 2001, Cai Qinliang, whose sense of smell was a little spiritual, switched from buying small household appliances to doing Christmas things. At that time, his small workshop had only 7 workers. Now, the factory buildings have been expanded, workers have basically stabilized at more than 40 people, and more goods have been outsourced to rural areas such as Jinhua and Wenzhou. He said that the peak season for foreign orders lasted from April to October. In recent years, the buoyancy of domestic orders has continued until December 20th.

Cai Qinliang said, "This year is not bad." Although foreign orders have declined, domestic orders have increased.
In recent years, people’s enthusiasm for the celebration of Christmas has continued to heat up, surpassing the celebration of Chinese traditional festivals. "Christmas fever" is not only a cultural phenomenon, but also reflects many social and economic issues.

According to reports, in order to receive goods in a timely manner, yiwu Christmas supplies traders around the world travel to Yiwu several months in advance each year. Their first stop is often Yiwu International Trade City.

Yiwu International Trade City is located in the center of Yiwu and is a multi-story wholesale market. This complex commercial entity was declared by the United Nations as "the world's largest small commodity market". It was divided into five different regions. Christmas-related decorations belonged to the second district. These stalls sold almost all Christmas goods at a relatively low price.

this is yiwu market