Yiwu is located in the center of Zhejiang Province, neighbored by Guangdong and Fujian to the south, Shanghai Economic Zone to the north, facing Ningbo, the largest eastern port, to the east. Covering an area of 1,105 square kilometers and with 7 boroughs and 6 towns under its jurdiction, Yiwu has a total population of 1.7 million, including 710,000 local population.
Yiwu was set up in 222 B.C. and named as Wushang County until 624 A.D., and upgraded to Yiwu Municipality in 1988. On this land, talents were born generation after generation, such as Luo Bingwang, one of the four outstanding poets in early Tang Dynasty; Zong Ze, a well-known anti-Jin general of Song Dynasty; Zhu Danxi, one of the four famous doctors in Jin & Yuan Period; Chen Wangdao, a contemporary educationalist; Feng Xuefeng, a theorist of literature and arts; Wu Han, a famous historian, etc.
Yiwu takes the lead among cities and counties in Zhejiang Province in GDP, budgetary revenues, deposit and loan balance of financial institutions, and per capita GDP. Yiwu integrated socio-economic development index is listed at 12th among the national top 100 county-level cities, the integrated competitive strength listed the top in county-level cities of Zhejiang Province. Yiwu was renowned as one of ¡°The most popular cities in China¡±.
Yiwu is a fast rising international trade city in the center of Zhejiang Province. Under the successive leadership of Yiwu Committee and Yiwu government, Yiwu people adhere to the development policy of ¡°Building the city on commerce¡± as well as Yiwu spirit of ¡°Diligence, uprightness, adventurousness and open-mindedness¡±. Starting from ¡°Exchanging brown sugar with chicken feather¡± and roadside market, Yiwu has been devoting all efforts to prospering the commodity market and boosting marketization, industrialization, and urbanization, and has achieved swift, coherent, and healthy regional economical development successfully.
Yiwu is to implement new scientific concept of development, develop through innovation, and boost the construction of international trade city for the purpose of becoming the growth pole of regional development and regional economical center city, therefore further identify Yiwu as the largest commodity exhibition center, distribution center, and information center in the world.
The geographical location of Yiwu
Yiwu locates in the eastern part of Jinqu Basin, lying between 119'49"-120'17"E and 29'02" -29'33"N. It is also located in the central area of Zhejiang province. Yiwu leaves the provincial capital Hangzhou hundred miles, which borders on Dongyang in the east, on Yongkang and Wuyi in the south, on Jinhua and Lanxi in the west, and on Zhuji and Pujiang in the north. The urban area is surrounded by the mountains from north, east and south side, which is 58.15 kilometers long from north to south and 44.41 kilometers wide from east to west. This territory has low mountains, hills, hillocks, plains, diverse types¡¯ soil, abundant light and heat resources. Yiwu is a subtropical monsoon climate, mild and humid, with four distinct seasons. The average temperature is highest in July for 29.3¡æ, and lowest in January for 4.2¡æ. The annual average frost-free period is 243 days approximately and the annual average rainfall is between 1100-1600 millimeters.
Aviation:
Civil Aviation Yiwu Airport has already opened more than 20 routes to Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Shantou, Changsha, Kunming, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi¡¯an, Urumqi, Qingdao, Changchun.
Civil Aviation consulting telephone: +86-579-96555
Railway:
Daily number of trains passing and stopping is more than 90, and there are through trains to large and middle size cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Railway train consulting telephone: +86-579-85522468
Highway:
Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Highway crosses the whole province,, and over 340 provincial passenger transport lines have been opened. Only 1 hour is needed to Hangzhou, 2.5 hours to Shanghai, and 1.5 hours to Ningbo.
Highway regular bus consulting telephone: +86-579-85123456
