The worlds largest commodity market makes Chinese rural women increase revenues

The world’s largest commodity market makes Chinese rural women increase revenues

Green “receptacle”, light yellow “petals”, together with deep yellow “pistil”, Song Dongchun, who lives in NO.2 Tianxin country, Yiwu, Zhejiang, using her smart fingers, less than 10 seconds makes a “Chrysanthemum” which can be confused as real ones.
Song Dongchuns husband workes in the township paper mill and she look after their children at home. She can make more than 2000 decoraters a day.Each one can earn one cent and every year also has two or three thousand yuan of income. The raw materials from the vicinity gift enterprises, and the local enterprises are relying on China Commodity City the worlds largest commodity market development.
The area of Yiwu China Commodity City business is 2.6 million square meters. There are more than 50,000 places and 200,000 employees. And brought more than 400,000 kinds of products. The year sum or volume of business transactions in direct and indirect is 30 billion dollars. It was report as “the worlds largest commodity wholesale market” by the United Nations, the World Bank and Morgan Stanley issued.
The market statistics of the 200,000 employees is not included like Song Dongchuns rural women. According to Yiwu the Womens Federation statistics, Yiwu market of processing business has radiation more than 10 provinces and cities including 630,000 women who received the processing fee up to 20 billion annual. Chinese knot, belts, head-dress, decorated flowers and other small commodities are their hard-working results.
Zhejiang Women Federation and Yiwu government hold the “millions of women break through the market, processing significant skill” in the morning of 23rd.The womens organizations of Beijing, Shanghai, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Gansu, and other places have shown a strong interest in this Work. Chen Min, the head of Suining women and children activities Center in Jiangsu Province said that Suining is in Subei plain, the rural labor is surplus and women have traditional manual. Now there are more than 30,000 women engaged in processing trade, through the processing each one has more than 3,000 yuan a year in revenue. Everyday two trucks which are loaded in raw materials and finished goods driving in Suining and Yiwu at the same time.
In addition to the family women rely on the processing to increase revenue, also rise the processing agent around in this industry. There are more than 200 agents only in Yiwu. Song Dongchuns agent Wang Songlin also lives in NO.2 Tianxin country, now he is linked with more than 60 farm households in the village. He told the reporter that there has more than 10,000 yuan of output value one month alone, while manufacturers gave him 20 percent of the commission. “Processing all can earn money. Some women are too old to work on farm and some women want to take care of children can not work out. Processing is not too hard to do. It can do in the free time and stop in the busy time.More than 300 yuan labor costs a month can also supplement household.”