Yiwu Introduction

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Yiwu Cuisine:
YiWu is well known for the "Three Big Treasures"; brown sugar, ham, and Nan dates. Local specialties are dried bean curd, Baizi wine, and Shanhua pears.

Yiwu Culture:
The beautiful natural landscapes of Yi Wu have inspired scholars and poets for centuries. The Shuanglinsi Temple is a sacred Buddhist place in Yunhuangshan Mountain. The YiWu and Dachen Rivers, Songpushan Roaring Waterfall, and 20 other summer resorts of lakes and springs attract tourists.

Yiwu City Flower--China rose
Yiwu is the hometown of sweet osmanthus, First class flower; sweet osmanthus is one of the ten biggest precious flowers in China. In the Spring, the pavilion bund China rose with its flowers blooming.

Yiwu City Tree-- Camphor tree
Yiwu, elusive rusticity and optimal moisture, is rich of scented camphor trees. The ancient camphor trees are elegant in groups; thousands of leaf layers, falling their shade everywhere. At the cusp of spring and summer,the green small flowers split the full branches. The light breeze delivers the fragrance and gladdens the heart. That tranquilness, that warmth and that smooth have sublimated this gentle cultural old city. That intensity, that fearless and that share thrive have revealed this fast moving cultural old city as well.

   
Yiwu City Flower - China rose               Yiwu City Tree - Camphor tree

Learn more about Yiwu From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The link is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiwu

Yiwu City is a city of about 1,000,000 people in central Zhejiang Province in the People's Republic of China.

Yiwu History
Yiwu was founded in the Qin dynasty, at or about 222 BC. Yiwu's long history flourished as early as the Neolithic Age. Yiwu first became a county in 222BC and was renamed Yiwu County in the year 624 AD. In May 1988, the former Yiwu County was upgraded to a county-level city. In 1995, Yiwu ranked the 47th among China's 100 most powerful counties/cities regarding comprehensive economic strength and in the same year listed as Zhejiang's sole city among the nation's experimental counties/cities of comprehensive reform. In 2001, the Yiwu overall economy ranked 19th of all counties (cities) of China.

Yiwu's early culture has given birth to many great figures in the fields of literature, art military, education, and engineering. Among these were Chen Wangdao, China's first translator of the Communist Manifesto; Wu Han, historian and former deputy mayor of Beijing; Zhu Zhixi, the meritorious engineer in harnessing the Yellow River, and Zongze, a well-known general from the Song Dynasty who resisted aggression by the State of Jin.

Yiwu Geography
Yiwu is located 100 km south of the city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province. The nearest city to Yiwu is Dongyang. The area, as in most of the Province of Zhejiang, is in a mountainous region.

Yiwu Administration
Yiwu is technically part of the greater Municipal region of Jinhua, although it has a distinct urban core. It has under its jurisdiction 15 towns and 8 villages, which covers 1102.8 square kilometers, 15 square kilometers of which are urban area of 650,000 people (2005 estimate).

Yiwu Economy
Yiwu is famous in China as a commodities center. People from all over the world come to Yiwu City to buy commodities for resale in other parts of China or abroad. Yiwu's China Small-Commodity Market has for 6 consecutive years topped China's 100 top open markets and was for successive years listed as China's civilized open market. It has been named as the banner of China's market economy and with a large variety of quality but cheaper commodities, the market has become a shopping paradise for tourists. The Yiwu wholesale market concept habe provided the basis for the controversial Sweden Chinese Commodity Wholesale Market in Kalmar, Sweden.

Its 4C-grade airport has opened over a dozen of air routes to such cities as Beijing, Guangzhou, Shantou, Weifang and Shenzhen. The Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway and Hangzhou-Jinhua Expressway pass through the city, making Yiwu an important local transportation hub. Express trains from Shanghai South Railway Station take less than three hours.

Yiwu Miscellaneous
Yiwu boasts an Olympic quality stadium and a large Christian Church. Many events associated with trade take place in Yiwu City. Yiwu also has a sizable Korean and Muslim (both foreign and Chinese) population, mostly working in the import and export businesses. Yiwu is also known as the "sock town" as it produces over three billion pairs of socks for Wal-Mart, Pringle and Disney annually. Yiwu is also known as China's number one producer of fashion jewelry.

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