Since late November, the Christmas market has shifted from foreign trade to domestic sales. A Christmas dealer Mr. Liu said, “this year, the domestic market is not bad, because during the latest two years we were all working to expand the domestic market and updating product style while improving product quality so as to make “foreign festival ” more suitable to Chinese tastes.

“Domestic sales is different from foreign trade, it’s necessary to add some Chinese characteristics. Santa Claus holding a Chinese knot sells well and some Santa Claus puppets dressed in Tang costume (six pieces a group) have been popular for many years and still sell well.” said Mr. Liu. Many merchants will search online before procurement.

It is learnt that Yiwu market has provided Christmas supplies for overseas countries since the 90s last century. Then this “west wind” gradually blew to the east, businessmen in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal regions in China prefer to carry out some promotional activities on Christmas, which help to expand the market space for Yiwu Christmas supplies.

Nowadays, more and more Chinese people like to spend Christmas Day and expanding is the Christmas market. In addition to hotels, shopping malls and supermarkets, the customer groups of domestic market also include some regional professional wholesalers.

Yiwu Christmas supplies include Santa Claus, Christmas trees, electric snowmen and a variety of Christmas ornaments and so on. The domestic market mainly cover the three northeastern provinces, Shandong, Shanghai and Zhejiang. Influenced by Russia, people in three northeastern provinces love to spend Christmas and become the largest Christmas tree selling area. Influenced by western culture, Shandong, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Yiwu China are mainly Christmas ornaments oriented.

Christmas is approaching and every where in Yiwu you can see smiling Santa Claus, colorful Christmas tree, shiny color candy. The festive atmosphere is gradually growing intense. Various products with “Christmas element ” are also favored by customers and become magic Nuggets of the smart businessmen.

In the century Hualian supermarket, the reporter saw a wide variety of musical Christmas trees, Christmas hats, Santa Claus dolls and other beautiful ornaments are placed in a prominent position at the entrance. The rabbits are also dressed in festive clothes and transform into “Christmas Rabbit”. According to the words of staff, last month the supermarket has launched a full range of Christmas ornaments and the sales has been climbing all the way in December.

The main consumer groups of Christmas economic are naturally the fashion young people and student groups. Shopping, having dinner, watching movies, going to KTV, spending Christmas Eve together is the main choice of this group. For this reason, all major shopping malls of Yiwu are trying their best to prepare for Christmas activities. Catering enterprises and bars, KTV and other entertainment  announce the Christmas Party, “Silent Night ” holiday meal set and other various activities one after another in meeting the upcoming “golden period ” and attract consumers to consult and book services.

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Yiwu now becomes more and more morden,and western Christmas Day is two weeks away! We know from many Yiwu hotels and western restaurants that some consumers have gone to consult the content of Christmas dinner. Some impatient young people have even booked the seats without asking for the specific pricelist.

“A consumer has booked Christmas Eve dinner as early as two weeks ago.” Yiwu  Hotel catering manager Tu Xiaodong said. The customer is in charge of a company. He booked 20 seats in the western restaurant of the hotel, planning to spend Christmas day together with all staff.

In the chain store of Yiwu Shore Coffee, there are more than 20 customers that have booked dinners on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. “However, this year the prices of Christmas dinner have to be determined later.” sales director of the store Mr. Wu told us. Last year some consumers came late and there were no seat available. So this year they started the reservation work earlier than before.

According to Mr Wu, the affiliated 10 chain stores have started the Christmas decoration work since last week and now it is finished basically. From the main entrance to the balconies and corridors, a variety of scene sets create strong Christmas atmosphere. The Christmas dinner reservation peak may arrive next week.

Known from Yiwu Kingdom Hôtel and some other star catering enterprises, except the group reservation like companies and units, consumers aged 25~40 are the main consuming groups of Christmas dinner. Some of them are lovers and some are relatives and friends.

Affected by the price raise of raw materials and labor costs, this year the prices of Christmas dinner are generally up by 10%. Take Christmas dinner of Yihe Hotel for example, last year it was 210 yuan per person while this year it is 238 yuan per person. If you don’t reserve, the fee is calculated according to the menu.

In spite of the slightly higher price of Christmas dinner, the overall consumer groups are expected to be no less. The reason is that this year Christmas Day happens to be on Saturday, either dealers or white-collar workers all have enough time to arrange activities in Yiwu.