CCTV News: On February 9, Yiwu International Trade City, the world's largest small commodity distribution center, ushered in the opening of the Year of the Snake, and received more than 230,000 passengers on the first day. 75,000 merchants opened their doors to welcome customers. On the first day of the market, many merchants launched innovations, and new products developed by AI and artificial intelligence attracted buyers from all over the world.

In this store that mainly sells jewelry, AI-designed hairpins attracted the attention of foreign buyers, and soon, the two parties signed an order.

According to statistics from Yiwu Customs, in the past year, Yiwu's total import and export value reached 668.93 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.2%, continuing to hit a record high, which also made Yiwu International Trade City operators full of confidence in the business of the new year.

Yiwu, Zhejiang: Innovation leads the trend, small commodities leverage the big market

As 75,000 merchants open doors to welcome customers and new products, the upstream factories and downstream logistics in Yiwu, Zhejiang have also become more dynamic, and the "world supermarket" is full of vitality.

As soon as construction started in the morning, the designers of this gift bag company in Yiwu gathered together to discuss modification plans around this year's Christmas series. The company manager said that the latest trend is "seiko" gift bags, so the products they designed are not only exquisite in appearance, but also novel and interesting.

In the studio here, designers are busy modifying the plan, and in the exhibition hall next door, foreign customers have already placed orders through video links.

New Year's orders are coming, and Yiwu's production line is already full of power. In this company that produces cultural supplies such as notebooks, more than 20 production lines in the three factories are operating at full capacity.

There are many orders and busy production, and the busy logistics in Yiwu seems to have come earlier than in previous years. At the Yiwu Railway Port, more than 20 container trucks lined up at the warehouse door, waiting to be packed.

Fang Liang, head of the operation center of a logistics company in Zhejiang, said: "We usually enter a normal rhythm after the Lantern Festival. After this year's festival, customers have successively delivered goods since the third day of the Lunar New Year. The entire warehouse is already full, and all the staff have resumed work in advance."