Yiwu International Trade City District 1: the floor plan, floor by floor

One building, one trade per floor: toys, then jewellery, then crafts, then factories. This guide walks District 1 floor by floor and explains how the category layout shapes the way you buy.

Yiwu markets: Yiwu International Trade City District 1

The logic of the building

District 1 opened in October 2002 as the first phase of the Yiwu International Trade City. It holds more than 10,000 booths across a floor area of 340,000 square metres, and the operator's own page reports over 40,000 buyers a day, of whom around 5,000 come from overseas.

The useful fact for a buyer is not the size but the sorting: each floor carries one family of goods, and neighbours within a floor carry near-identical ranges. Price comparison therefore happens within an aisle, and product discovery happens by moving up or down a storey.

Floor 1: flowers and toys

Floor 1 carries flowers and toys, with the toy range spanning plush, inflatable, electric and ordinary toys. Booths tend to cluster by sub-category, so a walk down one aisle will show you many versions of the same plush format.

Buying logic on this floor is seasonal: toy and festive ranges follow holidays, and the same booth may push different lines in different months. Ask what is moving now and what is held in stock, because stocked lines can ship faster than made-to-order ones.

Floor 2: hair accessories and jewellery

Floor 2 concentrates on hair accessories and jewellery, one of the most export-oriented trades in the building. The official page reports that over 90 per cent of booths in District 1 handle foreign trade and that goods reach more than 140 countries and regions.

Jewellery buying turns on plating, materials and packaging, and small specification differences produce large price differences between neighbouring booths. Bring a reference sample and compare like with like; the prices page explains how quantity bands and specification choices drive the quotes you will hear.

Floor 3: crafts, porcelain and frames

Floor 3 holds festive crafts, decorative crafts, porcelain and crystal, tourism crafts, picture frames and jewellery accessories. These are categories where design and finishing, not raw materials, carry the price.

Because many booths on this floor source from workshops elsewhere, treat each as a sales point rather than a factory: match the company name on any contract to a business licence before paying deposits. Our inspection guide sets out the checks that apply before goods leave the floor.

Floor 4 and the east annex

Floor 4 is a direct-sales centre for small and medium manufacturing enterprises, including a hall for Taiwan merchants. Buying here moves you closer to the producing side, which usually means better terms on customisation and slower answers on stock.

The east annex houses a sourcing service centre for foreign-trade enterprises, alongside other trader services. The official page counts 37 lifts and escalators in the building, and cars can reach floors 2 to 4 directly, which simplifies moving cartons at the end of a buying day.

Floor assignments come from the official floor-plan page cited above, checked on 2026-10-27. Booth counts and trade shares are operator figures. We do not publish prices.