Smes In Yiwu Seek To Break Through In Expanding Domestic Sales

In January 13, 2009, Yiwu international trade city was particularly cold. There was no air conditioning, and businesses in twos and threes came to play badminton heating.

The commercial city starts at eight every morning and stops at five p.m.

But not until nine o'clock did some businesses open.

The jewelry manufacturing industry is one of the largest industries in Yiwu.

"Business is rather light now," the boss told the reporters. After Christmas in 2008, overseas businessmen came a little more than before Christmas, but they were much lower than before.

Ye boss, from Putian, Fujian, told reporters that in the past 2005-2007 years, the jewelry business she did here was pretty good, but by 2008, the turnover had dropped sharply.

"Foreigners used to have several pieces of goods (200 dozen for one thing), but now they only dare one hundred or two hundred."

Ye boss said.

"Now we are strengthening domestic trade and avoiding the risk of relying solely on offshore markets.

Because of the year-end quotations, the business is quite good recently. "

Pointing to several mainland merchants in the store, ye boss told reporters.

A senior manager of the Mona Hosiery Industry also said that the rise in domestic sales to some extent helped the company make up for the market imbalance brought about by the slowdown in the US and EU markets.

He said that if you start treating the domestic market with the same energy at the beginning, you may be more capable of dealing with crises.

After a cold morning, after 10 a.m., foreigners with plation or skilled pressed calculators grew more and more.

"Before, less than 9 o'clock, there will be a lot of foreigners outside the commercial city, but now we can't see them."

Ye Jian, a taxi driver, told reporters that he had a turnover of more than 700 yuan a day, and now 500 yuan is hard to achieve.

"Yiwu is the closest city to the international market. It is also affected by the financial crisis."

People outside the city of Yiwu told reporters.

He said that from the point of view of people's traffic volume, foreign merchants are indeed much less, but this does not reflect the problem in substance.

For example, many businessmen have old relationships in the commercial city. Many times, they can complete pactions by only one phone or mail.

These people also pointed out that from a global perspective, the situation in Yiwu is relatively stable. The most convincing thing is the latest statistics of Customs: Jinhua customs handled 277 thousand import declaration forms for small commodities in 2008, an increase of 17.4% over the same period last year. The regulation of small commodity exports was 521 thousand boxes, up 24% over the same period last year.

Two indicators of small commodity export declarations and containers have all hit a record high since the establishment of the customs.

According to statistics, in the first 11 months of 2008, Yiwu's small commodities valued at US $68 million 500 thousand were exported to Brazil through the trade of "tourist shopping products", and the value of small commodities exported to Russia was 51 million 380 thousand US dollars.

It is understood that in view of the financing difficulties of small and medium-sized enterprises, Yiwu has produced two popular solutions: the establishment of business location pledge loan business and the provision of emergency loan funds for enterprises (accumulative total of 360 million yuan).

Wang Xiaonan: editor in charge