This risk had been taken very seriously in Yiwu, a city of almost 2 million inhabitants located in Zhejiang province, two hours by high-speed train from Shanghai. Since the 1980s, it has been home ...

But where? There’s a good chance that it came from Yiwu, which is about three hours south of Shanghai. Many of the world’s cheap goods originate there—everything from holiday baubles and ...

The map below shows the location of Shanghai and Yiwu. The blue line represents the straight line joining these two place. The distance shown is the straight line or the air travel distance between ...

For decades, Yiwu has been China’s shop window to the world. The city in the eastern province of Zhejiang is home to a gargantuan wholesale market that connects China’s factories with buyers ...