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During this May Day holiday, going on a "bulk purchasing-style" trip to the "World Supermarket" and tasting global cuisines has become the travel choice for many people.
At 9 a.m. on the 3rd, when the reporter walked into the toy specialty area of Zone 1 of Yiwu International Trade City, it was found that there were already crowds of people there. Customers speaking different languages shuttled among them, and the sounds of calculator keypresses and haggling could be heard continuously. During this holiday, 75,000 merchant households opened their doors to welcome guests, and 2.1 million types of goods were updated and newly launched, attracting tourists and business people from all over the country and the world to come for tourism and procurement.
"I heard from my friend that there is a wide variety of goods here and the prices are affordable. It really is possible to buy everything in one stop! Later, I'm going to buy a toy car for my daughter as well." Ms. Jin from Fuyang, Hangzhou, drove here specially with her daughter who is in the fifth grade. She was still holding a jigsaw puzzle toy that she had just bought in her hand.
In Zone 5 of the International Trade City, tourist Guo Wenwen has a special preference for the imported goods in the African Pavilion. Wooden combs, music boxes... In less than half an hour of shopping, her shopping basket was already filled to the brim. "Besides buying the things I like, I also plan to purchase a batch of goods and find a place with a large flow of people to set up a stall and give it a try," Guo Wenwen said.
After visiting the market, going to the international block to taste exotic cuisines is the choice of many tourists. Yiwu, known as the "global distribution center of small commodities", attracts business people from all over the world, and exotic cuisines are also thriving everywhere. Strolling along Chouzhou North Road and Binwang Business District in the urban area, Middle Eastern restaurants, Indian restaurants, and Korean cuisine restaurants can be seen everywhere.
At 12 noon, there was already a long queue of people waiting to dine outside the popular online check-in spot, Beidi Restaurant. In order to prepare for the May Day holiday, the restaurant started preparing a month in advance, recruited more than 50 temporary employees and trained them in advance. It also specially launched preferential packages, and more than 50,000 packages were pre-sold before the holiday.
"People on the Internet say that there are many international cuisines in Yiwu and they are delicious. It really lives up to its reputation," said Ms. Hua, a tourist from Wenzhou, who drove more than 3 hours with her family to try the new flavors. Special dishes such as spicy lentil soup, seafood fajitas, and open-style Turkish roasted chicken pies were unanimously approved by her family members.
In recent years, Yiwu has been constantly making efforts in "shopping + cuisine" to create the cultural and tourism IP of "Yiwu is really worth visiting". Throughout last year, Yiwu received more than 36 million tourists, and the comprehensive income of all-for-one tourism exceeded 34 billion yuan. During this May Day holiday, Yiwu has launched the "Yiwu is really worth visiting · Bulk Purchasing Carnival Tour" activity. Many stores support the policy of "even one item can be purchased at the wholesale price", attracting tourists to come for bulk purchasing and tasting cuisines.
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