Source: Yiwu sourcing agent Author: Date: 2009-09-15
A few days ago, an arts and crafts firm in Yiwu loaded a batch of Christmas trees into containers and delivered them to Port Beilun in Ningbo . 20 days later, this batch of Christmas trees will be displayed in the shop windows in Santiago, waiting to be picked home for Christmas by Chileans . Chilean families may not find the Christmas articles such as Christmas trees and Santa be produced by common Yiwu villagers in Zhejiang, China .
Yiwu started Christmas articles manufacturing since 1980s, almost every family has a workshop to make Christmas streamers, Christmas trees and Christmas balls . Each article may bring profits of a quarter or even a few cents . Nowadays, Yiwu has become the largest export base of Christmas articles in the world with an annual output value of 2 . 5 billion yuan and an annual export sales volume of 2 billion yuan.
"The opening up policy exploited the international market and brought us marketing information. The toy industry developed extremely fast in recent 2 decades ." Chen Jinlin, the secretary of Yiwu Christmas Articles Association said . Half of the Christmas articles in the world,70% in United States market and 40% in European market are coming from Yiwu .
The development of Yiwu Christmas gifts and toy sisare flection of Zhejiang economic development . In 1952, the total volume of export in Zhejiang is 120 million yuan, a 4.7%in GDP.In 2008, the turnover of export and import in Zhejiang is $ 211 . 1 billion, among which the export volume rises from $ 17 million in 1958 to $ 154 . 3 billion with an annual increase of 20%.
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