Yiwu Airport

机About this airport

Yiwu Airport serves Yiwu, a county-level city in central Zhejiang that hosts the Yiwu International Trade Market — the world's largest wholesale small-commodity market. With over 75,000 booths in multiple trading districts covering more than 5 million square metres of floor area, the Yiwu market trades in essentially every category of small manufactured goods: toys, hardware, jewellery, textiles, accessories, seasonal goods, and thousands more categories. The market attracts over 500,000 international buyers annually from across the world, making Yiwu one of China's most internationally traded cities despite being a county-level city rather than a major metropolitan centre.

The airport reflects this commercial orientation: international routes connect to Middle Eastern, African, South and Southeast Asian, and Central Asian destinations that have significant trading relationships with Yiwu [VERIFY: current international routes — May 2026]. These routes are primarily used by traders rather than leisure tourists.

Domestic connections reach Shanghai, Beijing, and other major cities. High-speed rail from Yiwu to Hangzhou takes approximately 30 minutes; to Shanghai approximately 1.5 hours.

For general leisure tourism, Yiwu has limited appeal unless the market itself is the draw. The market visit experience — the sheer scale, the concentration of merchandise, and the international trading floor atmosphere — is genuinely remarkable and worth a half day for curious visitors passing through the Yangtze Delta.