Over 1000 foreign offices in Yiwu now

Sources say that there have been1 ，288 foreignen terprises from over 100 countries and regions setting up their offices inYiwu ，making Yiwu the leading city among China’s county-level cities interms of the number of foreign establishments . It is said that the first foreignoffice inYiwu was set up inApril ，2002 by a Palestinian trade company.And with the growing reputation of Yiwu around the world，the number of permanent offices of foreign countries has been increasing rapidly .
In March of this year，the representative office of Darcono Brothers Co .，Ltd was established by Darcon o from Mali，Africa，who became the 1000th foreignoffices inYiwu . Since then，Yiwu has become the first city with over 1000 resident offices of foreign enterprises in Zhejiang Province，and the number is still growing with Yiwu more and more known around the world . And among China’s county-level cities，Yiwu is the one who boasts the largest number of foreignoffices .
Initially，most foreignoffices were set up by compan ies in the Middle East and Africa . But since 2004，there have beenmore and more offices set up by businessmen from Europe，America，Japan ，Korea and other developed countries，accounting for 17.6% of the total today .