Just out of curiosity, is there any child labor involved in this? Also, what proportion of local population is doing this (considering both workers and business owners)? Why this city, but not other cities around? Anything special of your hometown? Thank you!
Most of the workers are coming from places outside Yiwu, and their population has exceed the local ones. And most of local population are business owners and factory owners.
I haven't heard of any child labor involved, For Yiwu is rich and has very high level of education and not lacking of workers here.
I think what made Yiwu as a global wholesale place is most of its history. The first group of Father-Candy-Man came in 1600s.[1]
It has many many foreigners and a good culture around them, you'll love it when you come and visit it.
