With a population of just under two million people, Yiwu's business revolves around a huge building of 62,000 stalls containing umbrellas, socks, toys, electronics, zips and other goods -- all spread out over four million square metres (43 million square feet).
`"If you
allocated three minutes per supplier during eight hours of daily
business, you would need over a year to make your way round it (the
market)," said Li Xuhang, vice mayor of Yiwu city, at the heart of
Zhejiang province.'