The global supermarket
City of Yiwu burnishes credentials as a trader and as new home for entrepreneurs
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Ten years ago, Spanish young man Jesus Garcia used his university graduation scholarship to buy a plane ticket to China, set on winning the heart of a young Chinese woman, Yang Saijun.
That same year, 2014, the first China-Europe freight train departed from Yiwu — where Garcia made a home for himself — heading to Spain, connecting China's largest small commodity market with the Spanish capital, Madrid, Europe's largest such hub.