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China Commodity City (often shorted as CCC), is a large wholesale market of Yiwu, a city in the Zhejiang Province of the People's Republic of China. China Commodity City was honored by the UN, the World Bank and Morgan Stanley amongst other world authorities in 2005 as the "largest small commodity wholesale market in the world". China Commodity City has three market clusters of International Trade Mart, Huangyuan Market and Binwang Market. ==Yiwu Market History== Yiwu is a hilly region originally inhabited by farmers. Poverty-ridden land left peasants with no option but trade for a living. As early as the 1600s, trading flowered in Yiwu. It was in the 1600s that Yiwu peasants started trading in chicken feathers, as they were used as a natural crop fertilizer. Using these feathers, they also made some other household articles that were attractive on the market and even started exportation: during periods in which farming did not require substantial work, they travelled across villages, selling sewing needles, threads, sugar chunks and other small articles. These men were also named the equivalent of "Sugar Shoulder-pole Men" in some rural areas. Soon, they grew in number and many wholesale markets came into existence to cater them. It was only until 1949 that Planned Economy was set up there. Planned Economy vs. Sugar-for-Chicken Feathers〔 Earlier, the trade system was considered as capitalistic by the government of the People's Republic of China and hence officially suppressed. However, in practice there was not much change in the mountainous Yiwu. People had no option but to rely on business to survive and the commerce was carried on secretly. If a trader were caught, his belongings were confiscated by the authorities. When Xie Gaohua, a former Yiwu mayor, carried out an investigation in the city, he found that the secret wholesalers had in fact better living conditions than peasants. He consequently decided to promote the legalisation of small trade in Yiwu, in favour of higher living standards of its inhabitants. Eventually, as the economic reform started in China, the three free markets came into existence. The First Free-Marketplace in China's History〔 In 1982, the local government put cement boards over a stinky ditch near Huqingmen Street and set up around 700 stalls. It was from that first early complex that Yiwu market was born. Over the course of time, Yiwu wholesale market has undergone several changes. Now Yiwu International Trade Center has a capacity of over 70,000 stalls, for profits amounting to billions USD. It is considered the world’s most popular wholesale market for some products. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yiwu market」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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