Yiwu International Trade City: Which District Sells What
· Updated August 21, 2026 
Five buildings, more than twenty floors, around 75,000 booths. Most guides hand you a floor list and wish you luck. This page works the other way round: start from the thing you want to buy, and it tells you which building and which floor to walk into.
The floor layout below is accurate as of this update, but treat it as a map rather than a legal document. Booths move, floors get reshuffled, and a category that filled half a floor two years ago may have shrunk. Use it to get to the right building, then read the signs.
Look up your product first
This is the table I actually use with clients. Find your product on the left, go to the district on the right.
If your product is not on that list, it is almost certainly still here — the market covers around 26 broad groups and close to two million items. Ask at an information desk rather than guessing, because walking the wrong building costs half a day.
The five districts in detail
District 1 — toys, flowers, jewellery, crafts
Four floors, around 10,500 shops. This is where most first-time buyers start, partly because the goods photograph well and partly because it is the easiest building to walk.
Floor 1 holds toys and artificial flowers. Floor 2 is jewellery and head ornaments. Floor 3 widens into craft materials, picture frames, crystal and porcelain, and festival and decoration goods. Floor 4 has the Taiwan mall, factory outlets for toys and plastic flowers, and a sourcing centre used by trading companies.
That fourth floor is worth a look even if you are not buying there. The factory outlet booths tend to be run by people closer to production, which changes the kind of answers you get.
District 2 — bags, hardware, appliances, electronics
Five floors, around 8,000 shops and over 10,000 trading households. This is the most practical building in the market and the least photogenic.
Floor 1 is bags, cases, umbrellas and rainwear. Floor 2 covers vehicles, hardware, tools, locks and electronic goods. Floor 3 is kitchen and bathroom, small appliances, clocks and watches, batteries, lamps and torches. Floor 4 mixes electronics with more bags and watches, and holds several regional showrooms. Floor 5 is export agencies and a foreign trade service centre rather than product booths.
If you are buying anything with a plug, a motor or a battery, this is your building — and it is also where you should be asking hardest about certification.
District 3 — stationery, sports, cosmetics, trims
Five floors, over 7,000 shops, with parking at ground level and on the roof.
Floor 1 is stationery, office supplies, ink and eyewear. Floor 2 adds sports equipment and leisure goods. Floor 3 is cosmetics and beauty products alongside apparel accessories, zips and buttons. Floor 4 continues with outdoor and sports gear plus more cosmetics and clothing accessories. Floor 5 is an imported goods hall.
District 3 is the one buyers most often overlook, and it is the one that quietly solves packaging problems. Paper goods, printed items and small trims all live here.
District 4 — textiles, the biggest building
Around 16,000 shops, more than any other district. Almost everything here is textile.
Floor 1 is socks and apparel. Floor 2 is daily necessities, knitted goods, gloves and hats. Floor 3 is trims: buckles, lace, shoes, thread, ribbon, sewing tape, wool yarn and towels. Floor 4 is underwear, belts and scarves. Floor 5 is a tourism and shopping centre with more daily goods.
A warning about District 4: because it is so large and so uniform, it is the easiest building to get lost in. Booth after booth of socks looks identical after an hour. This is the district where photographing the booth number really matters.
District 5 — imports, bedding, fabric, car parts
The newest of the five, five floors, over 7,000 shops.
Floor 1 mixes imported products with jewellery, handcrafts, ornaments, healthcare goods and food, and includes an African products exhibition area. Floor 2 is bedding, DIY craft and Chinese knot goods. Floor 3 is textile materials such as curtains and knitted fabric. Floor 4 is car and motorbike parts along with pet supplies.
District 5 is the odd one out. It is less a themed building than a collection of newer categories, which is why the mix looks unrelated on paper.
When your product sits in two districts
This is the part the floor lists do not tell you, and it is the thing that ruins schedules.
Very few finished products come from one booth. Think about what you are actually shipping:
Each of those lines is a separate supplier with a separate minimum and a separate lead time. Nobody co-ordinates them for you unless you pay someone to.
The practical consequence: plan your route by shipment, not by building. If your product needs items from three districts, sort the long-lead item first — usually anything printed — and buy the rest around it.
The same product at two price levels
Categories overlap between districts, and the overlap is not random. It usually reflects a real difference in the goods.
Hair accessories are the clearest example. District 1 carries them as fashion items — clips, bands, scrunchies, the sort of thing that moves fast and cheap. District 5 carries the higher-end hair goods including extensions and wigs. Both are “hair products”. The price bands and the minimums are nothing alike.
Cosmetics behave the same way: District 3 covers tools and mass-market items, while imported and premium goods appear in the import halls in District 3 floor 5 and District 5 floor 1.
The mistake is to price-check in one district and assume you have found the market rate. You have found a market rate, for one tier of the product. Before you settle, check whether your category also appears elsewhere.
Building a route that works
Once you know your districts, the walking plan matters more than most people expect. A few things that hold up in practice:
1. One building per day, at most two
Moving between districts eats more time than you think once you factor in walking, lifts and finding your bearings in a new layout. Two buildings in a day is possible; three is a wasted day.
2. Survey first, talk second
Walk your target floor end to end without stopping. You are collecting a price range and a shortlist, nothing else. Serious conversations come on the second pass, when you know what normal looks like.
3. Do packaging on the same trip, not after
Printed boxes and labels have longer lead times than the product itself. Get to District 3 while you are still here, even if your product is not finalised.
4. Leave the last afternoon empty
Something always needs a second visit: a sample that was not ready, a price that needed checking with the owner, a booth you could not find the first time.
For the wider picture — what a first day looks like, how to read a stall price, and who is actually behind the counter — start with the main Yiwu Market guide.
Practical notes on getting around
A few things that are hard to find written down anywhere.
The buildings are connected, but not conveniently. You can walk between districts under cover, but the connections are at particular floors and not every corner. If you are moving between buildings repeatedly, ask which link corridor is closest rather than walking back out to the street.
Booth numbers follow a pattern. They encode district, floor and street position. Once you have seen a few, you can estimate roughly where a booth sits from its number alone, which makes finding your way back much easier.
Not every booth wants a walk-in conversation. Some booths are effectively showrooms for a larger operation and the person there is not authorised to quote. If the answers feel evasive rather than unhelpful, that is often why. Ask when the owner is in.
The import halls work differently. Booths in the imported goods sections are frequently run by foreign traders resident in Yiwu rather than Chinese suppliers, and pricing and minimums follow different habits.
For opening hours and the periods when the market shuts, see the separate page on Yiwu market timings. For getting into the city in the first place, the transport guide covers the routes from Shanghai and Hangzhou.
Once you have found your district
Knowing where to stand is step one. The next question is what the price on the paper actually means, and whether the minimum you were quoted is real.
Both of those are covered in the guide to Yiwu wholesale pricing and MOQ. If your order is going to involve several districts and you are wondering whether to handle it yourself, the page on whether you need a sourcing agent sets out where help pays for itself and where it does not.
Send me your product list and I will map it
Tell me what you want to buy and I will tell you which buildings and floors to walk, which items sit in more than one district, and roughly how many days you need.
Send an enquiryCommon questions
How many districts does Yiwu International Trade City have?
Five main districts, each with four or five floors, connected into one complex covering roughly 6.4 million square metres with about 75,000 booths. District 4 has the most shops at around 16,000; District 1 has about 10,500 and is where most first-time buyers begin.
Which district should I visit first?
Whichever one holds your product. If you sell general gifts and homeware, District 1 is the usual starting point. If you sell clothing or anything textile, go straight to District 4. If you need packaging as well as product, plan District 3 into the same trip because printed items have the longest lead times.
Can I walk between the districts?
Yes, the buildings are connected under cover, but the links sit at particular floors rather than at every corner. Ask which corridor is nearest instead of walking back out to the street each time. Even so, budget real time for moving between buildings — one district per day is a comfortable pace.
Why does the same product appear in two districts?
Usually because they are different tiers of the same category. Hair accessories are the clearest case: fashion clips and bands sit in District 1, while extensions and higher-end hair goods sit in District 5. The names match, the price bands and minimums do not, so check both before deciding you know the market rate.
Is the floor layout the same every year?
Broadly, but not exactly. The main category split between the five districts is stable, while individual floors get reshuffled and booths move. Use a floor list to find the right building, then follow the signage inside rather than assuming a booth is where it was on your last trip.
Where do I buy packaging for my products?
Mostly District 3, which covers stationery, paper goods and printed items, plus District 4 floor 3 for textile trims like ribbon, thread and labels. Packaging is a separate buy from a separate supplier with its own minimum, so treat it as its own line rather than something the product booth will handle.
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