“I missed Yiwu and my friends here very much during the two-year separation,” said Fortino, a foreign merchant in Yiwu City with dual German and Italian nationality.
Yiwu City, often referred to as “the world’s supermarket,” has an abundant variety of commodities, convenient and fast logistics, and a good business environment, all of which have helped boost Fortino’s foreign trade business since it was launched in 2017.
Fortino is among a surge of foreign merchants returning to Yiwu City after China optimized its COVID response and entry-exit policies on Jan. 8.
According to data from Zhejiang Provincial Yiwu Airport Management Co., Ltd., the number of incoming and outgoing flights on Jan. 8 returned to the pre-pandemic level.
Trading with 232 countries and regions around the world, Yiwu City is a global commercial city that had some 15,000 resident foreign merchants before the outbreak of COVID-19. But that