“If you spend 3 minutes in a shop in Yiwu market, one year will be finished”, this is an old saying that you may heard of many times.
In fact, after putting up 15,000 more shops inside the new building – building 4 & 5, and a huge new raw material market around 2010. This saying needs updated. But now seems no one cares about it. Or maybe another saying can describe the variety of products here – “an ocean of commodities”
“This is huge!” “I never thought of such things exits” These words are out of Yiwu market first time visitors.
If you want to know the exact numbers of how many products are available in Yiwu, well, you will never get an accurate number.
Take shawls for example, there are about 1,400 shops only for shawls & scarf. Within one shop, there are at least hundreds of thousands of different products. You can imagine how many different shawls are there. Of course, these shawls cannot sell exact same shawls, otherwise, they can’t survive.
To classify these products, they mainly go to:
1、Fashion accessories for women and men: fashion jewelry, bags, scarf&shawls, hats&caps, gloves, belts, cosmetics and beauty accessories…
2、For kids & students: toys, sports, stationary.
3、For party and events.
4、Electronics & office supplies.
5、Home, kitchen, outdoor & travel.
6、Promotion, dispaly and package of above items.
7、Parts, accessories, raw materials, tools, machinery for above products.
Or we say, the products you see in most supermarkets, dollar stores, online stores, home stores, even concept stores are available in Yiwu market. Most of them are small.