The Foreign Trade of Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Develops with the Help of "Internet +"

In Yiwu, the development of cross-border e-commerce has taken the lead. Receiving foreign trade orders from the Internet with the help of "Internet+" has become a new way of transforming 70,000 physical stores that focus on export, and has gradually become a new trend. According to industry insiders, to a certain extent, "Internet +" has become the trust of physical merchants to be optimistic about foreign trade.

1. The confidence of entity merchants in Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market

Business is difficult to do every year, but it is done every year. Since the 2008 financial crisis, the persistence rate of Yiwu merchants' foreign trade export orders has declined.

The RMB exchange rate, raw material costs, labor costs, etc. are the main concerns of merchants, because these are related to the quantity and profit of an export order. But now, the merchants of Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market put their confidence on e-commerce, hoping to open up new foreign trade markets and harvest more foreign trade orders.

2. Yiwu Small Commodity Wholesale Market moves closer to "Internet +"

In fact, for the 70,000 merchants selling the yiwu commodity in Yiwu's physical market, they have already lost their fear of "making a feint shot" when they hear about e-commerce, and more people regard it as a new engine to open up the market.

According to merchants dealing in bedding products, although regular customers are stable, from the perspective of purchases in recent years, regular customer orders have begun to decline. For this reason, opening up new sources of customers is what we must do now.

Some merchants who are not involved in e-commerce personally are also trying to move closer to "Internet +", hoping to find new foreign trade business opportunities from it.

A business owner has been engaged in the Christmas jewelry business for 15 years. He has been in contact with online sales, but found that it takes a lot of energy to gain little. After several explorations, he found the method: stick to physical stores, be a "supplier" for e-commerce sellers, and maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses. He wants to become the "logistics minister" of Christmas products cross-border e-commerce and domestic trade e-commerce by improving the professionalism of Yiwu's small commodity products. Today, he mainly supplies cross-border e-commerce practitioners who sell all kinds of Christmas products online.