In the early years of this "reform and opening up" age in the early 1980s, the Yiwu market started to take shape. Ever since that time, the town has begun to provide the world with a huge variety of toys, accessories, home furnishings, panties, umbrellas, and automotive parts. Yiwu additionally opened direct cargo trains to Madrid, London, Prague and Tehran.

According to the report, so as to maintain its standing as a mill on earth, Yiwu's providers are under pressure to keep low prices and compete with other emerging economies whose labor is cheaper.

Most of the workers in the yiwu factory visited by the ABC News website in the end of August were migrant workers from all over China. They said they work 13 hours a day and operate seven days per week. A worker earns roughly $30 a day (about 198 yuan). A factory owner told the ABC News website that the local authorities had asked her to improve her working conditions, so she planned to move to a larger place.

Yiwu has 13,000 permanent residents residing in foreign countries and also a large number of dealers in Yiwu and Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Because of the culture they attract, Yiwu can be said to have become among the most varied areas in China.

With the world's requirement for Christmas decorations continued, Yiwu appears to be poised to develop into a real-world Christmas workshop for the near future.

In the early years of this "reform and opening up" age in the early 1980s, the Yiwu market started to take shape. Ever since that time, the town has begun to provide the world with a huge variety of toys, accessories, home furnishings, panties, umbrellas, and automotive parts. Yiwu additionally opened direct cargo trains to Madrid, London, Prague and Tehran.

According to the report, so as to maintain its standing as a mill on earth, Yiwu's providers are under pressure to keep low prices and compete with other emerging economies whose labor is cheaper.

Most of the workers in the factory visited by the ABC News website in the end of August were migrant workers from all over China. They said they work 13 hours a day and operate seven days per week. A worker earns roughly $30 a day (about 198 yuan). A factory owner told the ABC News website that the local authorities had asked her to improve her working conditions, so she planned to move to a larger place.

Yiwu has 13,000 permanent residents residing in foreign countries and also a large number of dealers in Yiwu and Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Because of the culture they attract, Yiwu can be said to have become among the most varied areas in China.

With the world's requirement for Christmas decorations continued, Yiwu appears to be poised to develop into a real-world Christmas workshop for the near future.

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