Business boom for Yiwu as new year approaches (1/3)

Businessmen look at the decorations for Christmas and the New Year at the International Trade City in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 18, 2011. As Christmas and the New Year draw near, businessmen in Yiwu, a city famous for selling small commodities, have started to prepare products for the possible large amount of purchase by buyers from at home and abroad. By far, traders from more than 100 countries and regions imported Christmas decorations from Yiwu, making the city an important market of commodity wholesales. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)