In the early years of this "reform and opening up" age in the early 1980s, the Yiwu market started to take shape. Ever since then, the city has started to deliver the planet with a wide array of toys, accessories, home furnishings, panties, umbrellas, and automotive parts. Yiwu additionally opened direct cargo trains to Madrid, London, Prague and Tehran.
According to the report, so as to keep its standing as a mill in the world, Yiwu's suppliers are under pressure to keep low prices and compete with other emerging economies whose labor is cheaper.
The majority of the employees from the mill visited with the ABC News website at the end of August were migrant workers from all around China. They said that they work 13 hours per day and operate seven days per week. A worker earns roughly $30 a day (roughly 198 yuan). A factory owner told that the ABC News website that the local government had requested her to improve her working conditions, so she planned to move to a larger place.
Yiwu has 13,000 permanent residents living in foreign countries and a large number of dealers in Yiwu and Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Due to the civilization they attract, Yiwu can be thought to have become among the most varied areas in China.
Together with the world's requirement for Christmas decorations continued, Yiwu appears to be poised to become a real-world Christmas workshop for the near future.
