Yiwu Sourcing GuideInternational Trade City Area (Futian Market), Yiwu
Yiwu International Trade City District 4
Opened 21 October 2008 with 1,080,000 m2 of floor space. Floor plan: 1 hosiery; 2 daily-use goods, gloves, hats and cotton knit; 3 footwear, ribbon and tape, lace, neckties, wool yarn and towels; 4 underwear, belts and scarves.
What buyers should know
Hosiery gets a whole floor (floor 1): this is where Yiwu's sock trade concentrates at wholesale level.
Daily-use goods and houseware buyers can cover floor 2 in a morning and still have time to compare prices across two or three neighbouring districts.
The district is the newest in the Trade City complex, so its service facilities (logistics, e-commerce, finance) are the most complete.
Guides
6 guides cover this market: the traps first, then planning, floors, prices and freight.
How to plan one sourcing day at Yiwu International Trade City District 4
District 4 is the Trade City's building for hosiery, daily-use goods, hats, gloves, footwear and underwear. Its floors follow one category band each, and a one-day route can cover the categories most buyers come for.
Read guide → GuidesYiwu International Trade City District 4: the floor plan, floor by floor
More than 16,000 booths of soft goods and daily-use products sit in District 4, one category band per floor. This guide reads the official floor plan level by level and shows how the floors connect.
Read guide → GuidesYiwu International Trade City District 4: how pricing works
Soft-goods pricing is specification pricing. In District 4 the same sock, scarf or towel can carry several honest prices at once, and only a written specification tells you which one you are being given.
Read guide → GuidesYiwu International Trade City District 4: getting your goods out
Soft goods compress, mix and mislabel easily, so District 4 rewards buyers who control every handover. The chain runs from booth pickup to a market-area warehouse, then to a forwarder for sea freight via Ningbo-Zhoushan or rail on the Yixinou line.
Read guide → GuidesYiwu International Trade City District 4: seasonality and when to go
District 4 sells winter warmths and household basics, so its year bends around cold-season retail calendars and the production slowdown around Chinese New Year. Timing decides how much attention a booth can give you.
Read guide → GuidesYiwu International Trade City District 4 versus mixed daily-goods wholesale platforms
The building and the platform sell overlapping ranges of household goods, socks and accessories. They differ in how you verify quality, how orders assemble and who each one suits.
Read guide →Where it is
- Scope
- Opened 21 October 2008 with 1,080,000 m2 of floor space. Floor plan: 1 hosiery; 2 daily-use goods, gloves, hats and cotton knit; 3 footwear, ribbon and tape, lace, neckties, wool yarn and towels; 4 underwear, belts and scarves.
- Scale
- More than 16,000 booths run by about 19,000 business entities, the largest district by booth count in the Trade City system.
We do not publish opening hours. They change, and a wrong time costs you a wasted morning, so confirm with the market or your supplier the day before you go.
Clusters in this district
- Yiwu Small-Commodity Distribution Cluster · The market system run by Zhejiang China Commodities City Group (SSE 600415): five International Trade City districts with more than 47,000 booths in total plus the International Production Materials Market with 4,200-plus booths, summed from the official market pages. The operator reports goods from the system sold to more than 140 countries and regions.
- Yiwu Fashion Jewellery and Hair Accessories Cluster · Jewellery and hair accessories occupy floor 2 of International Trade City District 1, inside a district of about 10,000 booths and 10,500 operators (official market page). Wholesale trade here is backed by a manufacturing belt in Yiwu and neighbouring Dongyang; factory-side figures require a government source and are not stated on this site yet.
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