Foreign trade still flourishes at 'World's Supermarket' Yiwu
2021-01-15
A Yemeni merchant chooses teapots and introduces the price and stock of a teapot to a customer from Saudi Arabia in the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
Dubbed the "World's Supermarket", Yiwu in East China's Zhejiang province has witnessed the resilience and vitality of China's foreign trade economy.
The city has seen well-coordinated COVID-19 prevention and economic development and has also accelerated the active transformation in the face of the impact of the epidemic.
From January to November 2020, the total value of imports and exports in foreign trade in Yiwu was 285.99 billion yuan ($44.2 billion), up 6.9 percent compared with the same period in 2019, according to customs statistics.
A Yemeni merchant chooses teapots and introduces the price and stock of the teapots to a customer from Saudi Arabia in the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A Yemeni merchant (right) chooses teapots in the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A Kenyan merchant chooses cooking utensils in the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A woman sells clothes via livestreaming at a livestreaming industrial park in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A Kenyan merchant (left) chooses cooking utensils in the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
A foreign merchant stands at a health checkpoint at the entrance of the Yiwu International Trade Market in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang province, on Jan 14, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
