As a rising exhibition city, Yiwu has formed its unique exhibition mode which perfectly combines the exhibitions and trading owing to its huge advantages on market and resources. Yiwu international Commodities Fair, sponsored by National Commercial Ministry and People's Government of Zhejiang Province, is a national foreign-oriented fair, in 2005, Yiwu fair had 3000 international booths, attracted 14,269 foreign customers from 158 countries and regions and more than 70 oversea commercial purchasing groups, the order volume was 8.98 billion Yuan, among which export volume reached 0.661 billion Us dollars and accounted for 65.3% ,The scale as well as the trading volume ranked top 3 among all the Chinese Exhibitions. The case of Yiwu Fair has even been included into college teaching materials for Exhibition Majors.
    Yiwu boasts top-ranking establishments and hardware for holding exhibitions and fairs, Meihu Exhibition Center which was built in 1999 covers an construction area of 46.000 square meters, at that time, it is one of the largest and most advanced exhibition halls in eastern china, At present, Yiwu has 28 local exhibition services organizations. In addition, as a member of International Exhibition League, China Commodities City Exhibition Company has maintained cooperative relationships with more than 50 world-famous exhibition organizations in Germany, U.S.A, Hong Kong and other dozens countries and regions.
    The exhibition industry is energetically supported by leaders in different levels, Commercial Ministry has dispatched its officer to Yiwu for long time guiding the exhibition organization works, series policies and approaches has been approved aiming at encouraging the development of Exhibition Service enterprises; what's more, a special organization would be established by Yiwu Governments when Important exhibitions and fairs to be held to spare no pains on the aspects of exhibition application, popularization, security guarding and other supported services such as rent discount etc.
    Thanks to the active interaction between exhibition industries as well as markets, Yiwu has made great achievements in exploring international markets in 2005, 80 more exhibitions were held in Yiwu, and three exhibitions were also wonderfully and successfully held in overseas, Yiwu shows the world its great potential in holding exhibitions at non-local places.