Yiwu City: the largest mart for petty commodities “Yiwu, 300 kilometers away from Shanghai, is the largest market of petty commodity wholesales in the world where various foreign buyers go to place orders.” Such a depiction comes from Chinese Figures Astonishing the World, a special report co-delivered by the United Nations, the World Bank and Morgan Stanley. In that special report, Yiwu is the only enlisted county economy. And in...