Foreign Trade Of Textile Enterprises In Yiwu Has Dropped, And Domestic Trade Has Been Rising.

Jewelry manufacturing is one of the largest industries in Yiwu.

Ye boss, from Putian, Fujian, told reporters that in 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.

"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 an old relationship in the business city. In many cases, only one telephone or an email can be completed.

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 (now accumulative total of 360 million yuan).

Wang Xiaonan: editor in charge