Yiwu International Trade City District 5: the floor plan, floor by floor

What each floor of District 5 sells, how the categories are grouped, and which neighbouring categories are worth combining on a single visit. Floor assignments follow the official plan.

Yiwu markets: Yiwu International Trade City District 5

The building in brief

District 5 covers 266.2 mu with a floor area of 640,000 square metres and holds more than 7,000 stalls. The district represents an investment of 1.42 billion yuan and has five floors above ground plus two basement levels.

Its main lines are imported goods, bedding, textiles, knitting raw materials, and automotive supplies and parts. Compared with the earlier districts of the Trade City, the mix leans towards materials and imports rather than small finished commodities, which changes how buyers move through the building.

Floor one: imports, food and daily goods

The ground floor groups jewellery accessories and crafts, food and health products including alcohol, daily necessities, and clothing, shoes and hats. An African products area sits on this floor as well, giving the level a distinctly international character.

For buyers, the practical point is that the ground floor mixes regulated goods with everyday ones. Food, alcohol and health products carry documentation requirements that ordinary daily necessities do not, so ask for certificates at the stall rather than after purchase.

Floors two and three: bedding, then raw materials

Floor two is given over to bedding. Because the whole level shares one category, it rewards systematic comparison: walk it once to shortlist, then a second time to negotiate, keeping the same sample specification in front of each stallholder.

Floor three moves up the supply chain to textiles and knitting raw materials. Buyers who make or finish goods, rather than only reselling them, use this floor to source inputs, and it pairs naturally with bedding above: a bedding buyer checking fabric quality can step up one level to see the material before conversion.

Floors four and five: automotive and trade services

Floor four holds automotive supplies and parts. Specifications matter more here than on the consumer floors, so bring fitment details and expect to discuss technical parameters rather than choose from a shelf.

Floor five is a trade services area rather than a sales floor. Buyers use it for export-related services and support, typically after the goods themselves have been shortlisted below.

How to use the grouping

The plan moves from finished consumer goods on the lower floors towards inputs and services above. That ordering suggests a natural day: choose products downstairs, check materials in the middle, and settle export arrangements upstairs.

Two cross-floor combinations are worth planning. Bedding buyers should compare finished goods on floor two against raw textiles on floor three, and imported-goods buyers should pair the food and daily-goods stalls of floor one with the services on floor five for paperwork questions.

Floor assignments above follow the official floor plan. Operators do reshuffle stalls from time to time, so treat the plan as a map rather than a guarantee and confirm locations on arrival.

Floor assignments are copied from the official floor-plan page cited above. Stall locations within floors change from time to time; confirm on site. We do not list individual stalls.