In January of this year, guided by China-Africa Business Council and Yiwu Commerce Bureau, Yiwu’s production enterprises, supporting logistics, foreign trade and exhibitions and other companies with trade contacts in Africa were organized for development together and established Yiwu China-Africa Business Council. Now, it has 160 member enterprises. In order to correspond to summon made by municipal party committee and municipal government to invite overseas purchasers to purchase in Yiwu recently, Yiwu China-Africa Business Council positively acted to give play to resources of all member enterprises in Africa and contact African purchasers in various channels. Zhu Shun said, Yiwu is very famous in Africa, and many new and old customers are eager to come to Yiwu after knowing it is safe, because there has been a shortage of Chinese goods in African market.

It is reported that, this Yiwu China-Africa Business Council will invite more than 100 African purchasers and it is expected to take shape by the end of March. At present, more than 40 purchasers have basically confirmed the date of their arrival in Yiwu. In addition, China-Africa Business Council also cooperates with overseas company of Zhejiang China Commodities City Group Co., Ltd., and nearly a hundred enterprises have settled in Rwanda overseas exhibition hall of it. Yiwu Boyu Exhibition which has been established for more than 10 years has accumulated more than 80 thousand overseas purchasers. In these days, General Manager Zhong Jiamei has been inviting foreign customers and organized in batches more than 130 foreign merchants from India, Russia and Morocco etc. to enter the market for purchasing.

Person in charge of Yiwu Commerce Bureau said that, at present, municipal government has introduced multiple favorable policies to welcome foreign merchants to purchase in Yiwu, hoping foreign trade enterprises, chamber of commerce and platform companies to give full play to their strong points to invite more foreign purchasers to come to Yiwu for online and offline synchronous purchase.