Yiwu Islam could trace back to 1990s. At that time, the Hui nationality, the Uyghur nationality and some other minorities came to Yiwu to ship goods or to run eateries. Since 1998, Muslims from Pakistan, India, Afghanistan have been coming to order goods. And after 2000, Muslims of foreign nationalities increased a lot, and gradually they became merchants. They set up a lot of agencies and companies in Yiwu city.

Yiwu Islams are mainly engaged in expoting trade, islamic catering, textile manufacturing and preschool education. It is estimated that the maximum number of the islam population is 21310, and the minimum number is 10310. If classfied by outmigration, the islams are mainly from home and foreign countries. In our country, they mainly come from the northwestern area. As to abroad, they are from Arab countries, Africa, southest and central Asia.

Yiwu Islams now have many activities. In 2001, Yiwu government authorized islams from foreign countries to hold activities in Ramada Plaza Yiwu. By 2004, the number of those people have exceeded 2000,and they usually make traffic jam in Yiwu city. In consideration of this, the government began to build mosques for them. Now there about 13 places for those islams to hold activities.

Yiwu Islam is developing at a quite quick speed. One of the most important reasons is the development of Yiwu Commodity City. The extensive and active market attract lots of Muslims. Yiwu is a smelter which accommodates so many nationalities. The islam is growing in this city, they benefit from this huge market and at the same time they make contributions to this market and the economy and culture of this smelter.

Christianity was introduced into YiWu in 1895 and has prevailed for more than a century. Our motherland has gone through tremendous changes, unpredictable political situations, several ups and downs during this period and so does the Chiristian activities.
After the Third Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, people in all fields tried to set things right including religion stuff.By the end of 2000, YiWu Christianity group has purchased and built 22 churches, 16 branch associations , 10 meeting places and 41 church properties. Currently, there are 6300 baptismal believers in the book and four pastors, 34 presbyterians and 334 deacons. About 15000 people are participating or have participated in Sunday’s religious activities totally. The preparation group for SanZi Patriotic Movement Committee was setted up on June 17,1980 and the committee was officially founded with the office in ChouCheng after the “the first christian congress of YiWu City ” was held on October 17, 1981.Pastor Jin Bingfu was appointed as the Director of the committee and pastor Wulin Yun, pastor Zhu Zhongmin was appointed as the vice directors.On August 17,1995, christians crowded in ChouCheng Church, celebrating the 100 anniversary of the introducement of christianity into YiWu and also the 50 anniversary of victory of Anti-Japanese War. Leaders from ZheJiang provincial government, Jinhua, YiWu and other relevant leaders attended the commemoration. In December 1998, Christian group held its seventh congress in FoTang Church. Xu Yaojin was elected as the chairman of YiWu SanZi Committee and the vice chairman and director-general of YiWu Christianity Association. At the same time, they elected head of each town and churches in every town established standing committee.
Now, Everything of the christian church and YiWu Christianity goes smoothly under the government’s leadership, management.