One side of Yiwu market, the signboard of "Yiwu glasses market " is extremely striking. In 120 more than booths, Linhai people occupy 80%, other 20% cut apart by Wenzhou people, Yiwu people etc. When the market just set up 4 years ago, the people in Wenzhou have occupied half the market booths. Not because the market abandons the Wenzhou people, but our people in Wenzhou gave up the market! "Jinhua Wenzhou Chamber of Commerce president Mr Shao guorong explained, in 1990, he reached Yiwu and made first glasses business, he still have booth in the Yiwu market now.

In June of 2000, Chinese imported and exported goods commodities centre sent out the invitation to Wenzhou glasses Chamber of Commerce. its attracted Wenzhou glasses enterprises attention. Very fast, more than 40 glasses enterprises in Wenzhou go to the Yiwu market to seek to develop. Will it be October 12, 2000, when Yiwu glasses market open, among 100 traders in market Wenzhou company accounted for half. But later wenzhou glasses had a difficult time in Yiwu market. Shao GuoRong says: "The one that was products in Wenzhou is of the high-grade and high price, and the market of Yiwu need the products of the low-grade low price. The professional lines of the market is not strong enough, the product specification is not high, do not accord with the localization of the wenzhou glasses at all."

In the meantime, Linhai people marched into the glasses market with the good and cheap products, and this is exactly what the Yiwu glasses market demand. Therefore, some businessmen in Wenzhou sell the booth to them, withdraws from Yiwu voluntarily.

The foreign businessman goes to Wenzhou to purchase the glasses. The glasses industry is the large industry in Wenzhou, the annual output of the glasses is more than 5 billion yuan, there are more than 1000 relevant enterprises, employees are 120,000. At the beginning of 2003, Wenzhou was rewarded the honorary title of " Chinese glasses production base".

Nowadays, a lot of Wenzhou glasses enterprise aim sight to the American-European market, the American-European trader comes to Wenzhou enterprises purchase directly. The analyst think, this has caused some enterprises not to pay attention to the domestic market, it is a great reason that the Wenzhou gives up the market of Yiwu.