Yiwu has a long history. The county was founded in 222 BC and has a history of 2232 years. 1988 Withdraw county and set up city. According to the Records of Jinhua Prefecture, "In the 30th year of Jianwu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiayin [AD 54, Liu Hui, the great-grandson of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, was given the title of King Yiyang and King Wu Shangjun in Wu Shang. When the city was in the middle, he ordered Yang Mao, the general of Wei, to help him. Liu Hui is the first county official with a surname recorded in the history of Yiwu, with a history of 1950 years, and also gave birth to a large number of celebrities. They are all famous for their articles, their loyalty to the country and their outstanding achievements in science. Brilliant-Luo Kangjin's famous star-People who understand honest and frank-A famous doctor-Zhu Danxi linguist-Chen Wangdao Lake poet-Feng Xuefeng historian-General Wu Han stationed-Jiang Zhongling born physicist-He. Zhu, a public health scientist, Feng Zefang, a cotton agronomist, and Wang Leehom, a rice expert and musician.
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China's largest inland port exported 565,438+0 million TEUs in 2009, and Yiwu is the most complete commodity exhibition center in the world. Forbes is the city with the largest variety and quantity of goods in the world. In 2005, June, July and 2008, it was rated as the best commercial city in Chinese mainland for three consecutive years, and its consumption power index ranked first in the county-level cities with the most intensive cash flow in China. Every day,13 of Zhejiang cash circulates in Yiwu, which is the first and only city in China to set up a customs office in a county-level city, the first city in China to trade water rights (paying 200 million yuan to buy water from the neighboring city of Dongyang), the most modern intelligent railway station in China (put into use in 2006), and the county-level city with the largest number of foreign businessmen in China. At present, more than12,000 foreigners live in Yiwu. In 2009, the number of temporary foreign investors was 3 1775 1 person, ranking first in Zhejiang and first in China. In June 5438+February 2009, the permanent representative offices of overseas enterprises in Yiwu reached 2553 county-level airports, and the proportion of overseas passengers at Yiwu Airport with the highest overseas attendance rate reached over 40%. The most advanced combat airport in the Far East (except Okinawa Airport) is the only city in China where foreigners can attend the NPC in 2005. Zhejiang, the largest trading place in the Middle East, is the first fully developed commercial city in China and the first city to enter the "automobile age". Car ownership ranks first in county-level cities, luxury car density ranks first in the country, and per capita private car ownership ranks first in the country. At the end of 2008, every 100 family owned 44 private cars. Yiwu is the largest commodity export base in China. "The First Action Plan for Urban-Rural Integration in China" and "Yiwu Action Plan for Urban-Rural Integration" Yiwu was rated as one of the top ten most attractive tourist destinations in Zhejiang Province by tourists and "My favorite city in China" by foreigners. Yiwu International Trade City, the top ten tourist and leisure city in Zhejiang Province, was awarded the first AAAA shopping and tourist area in China by the National Tourism Administration. Yiwu is the largest small commodity distribution center in the world. In the report "China Numbers that Shocked the World" jointly issued by the United Nations, the World Bank, Morgan Stanley and other international authorities, Yiwu market is called "the largest small commodity wholesale market in the world". (China's only county economy) American professional investigation agency (PRI) rated China as an internationally renowned city, and Yiwu was selected together with Beijing, Hongkong, Shanghai and Hangzhou. 18 International Trade City Phase III Market is the largest single building in China, surpassing the first and only county-level public security department authorized to handle foreigners' visas and residence permits. The only county-level city in China that can have the right of final appeal to foreign residents, and the first county-level city in China to open foreign-related enrollment schools, Yiwu Court became the first county-level court in China to hear patent cases. The number of patent applications and authorizations in Yiwu was listed in the first Canton Fair and China Expo in Zhejiang. Yiwu Expo is the largest shopping center in the world, ranking first in all major professional markets in China in 19. Yiwu market has a total operating area of more than 4 million square meters and 62,000 business premises. It also released the first "market credit index" in China, and compiled and implemented the first domestic industry standard "Commodity Classification and Code", ranking first in Zhejiang. The second county in East China, the third county with national power (Yiwu 1000 prefecture-level city power, 6 18) is the only county-level city member of China's most potential exhibition city, the most attractive exhibition city and the best exhibition city. The first county-level city in China to obtain the right to go abroad for exhibitions. Counties and cities with the most exhibitions in the country; -Yiwu Fair, Forest Fair, Tourism Fair and Cultural Fair. (There are six national-level exhibitions in the strict sense in Zhejiang, and two-thirds of the provinces in China have not yet had four national-level exhibitions. County-level cities with the largest foreign population in Zhejiang Province (local population is 750,000, floating population is nearly 1.3 million). The city with the highest income of urban residents (in 2009, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 3084 1 yuan) was upgraded to the first branch in China. China, China is the first city where a state-owned commercial bank has set up a secondary branch in a county-level city, and the first city to open a BMW 4S store in a county-level city. The comprehensive strength of county-level trademarks ranks second in China, and Yiwu Commodity City was selected as one of the top ten in the 60th anniversary of the first new China in Zhejiang Province. It is one of the 30 typical cities in China 18 in the 30th anniversary of the first reform and opening-up in Zhejiang Province, and the 30 most concerned cities in the past 30 years.