The 19th CFNA Tree Nuts Conference, a significant annual event in East Asia's nut industry, was hosted from Aug 5 to 8 in Yiwu, a county-level city in Jinhua, Zhejiang province.
For decades, Yiwu has built its reputation as China's quintessential small-commodity hub, where daily goods flow from local storefronts to buyers around the world.
Representatives from 31 companies, business associations, and financial and service institutions from countries including Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and Italy engaged in in-depth discussions with enterprises from Jinhua, Zhejiang province, to explore cooperation opportunities.
With less than two months to go before the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off, businesses in Yiwu are seeing a fresh surge in orders for fan merchandise and related products.
China Yiwu International Commodities Fair Import Goods Exhibition opened on Nov 13, bringing more than 800 exhibitors from 69 countries and regions.
Yiwu, a key export hub in East China's Zhejiang province, reported strong foreign trade growth in the first three quarters of 2025 despite a challenging global trade environment.
The Global Digital Trade Center, a flagship project of the sixth-generation market in Yiwu — a county-level city in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, opened on Oct 14, marking Yiwu's transition from traditional trade to a digital trade ecosystem.
Nirose Parambathkandy Mohammed Asharaf, general manager of the Yiwu Office of the LuLu Group International, led over 20 foreign buyers from the Canton Fair to the Global Digital Trade Center in Yiwu, a county-level city in Jinhua, for its inaugural Foreign Buyer Open Day on May 7.
