Shoppers purchase red lanterns in Yiwu China Commodity City, East China's Zhejiang Province。
 
Figures from local Industry and Commerce Administration Bureau show that the trade value was a record of 34.837 billion yuan ($4.79 billion) in 2007, up 10.58 percent year on year.
 
Yiwu has 1288 resident foreign organizations in total, and it is the largest commodities center in China.