Since the first day transport during Spring Festival, Yiwu Railway Station has opened 11 extra temporary trains. The 40-day Spring Festival Transport season officially opened the curtain from yesterday. Amanda reporter learned from Yiwu railway station that this week, the daily traffic of Yiwu Railway Station has risen to 20,000. The pre-holiday transport peak is coming.

Crowd in Yiwu Railway Station

With reference to the operation interval, these temporary trains mainly go to popular destinations such as Jiangxi, Chongqing, Chengdu, Guiyang and so on, which can greatly alleviate the current pressure on passenger transport. From January 13, L199, L147, L773, L200–these four temporary trains are already at work. In addition,  L8430 Quzhou – Fuyang (21:33 reach at Yiwu Station) has been opened every two days a trip.

Among the 11 new opened lines yesterday, L199 and L773 will reserve 4 carriages for Yiwu Railway Station. L841 originally ran from Shanghai to Chongqing but now is changed to depart from Yiwu Railway Station and set aside 10 carriages which can accommodate 2,600 passengers at a time. The opening of these 3 temporary trains is undoubtedly good news to passengers going back to Guiyang and Chongqing.
With the arrival of the transport peak during Spring Festival, in order to maintain order in the waiting room, Yiwu Railway Station require passengers to enter the waiting room 2 hours in advance from today. Some important trains and trains with large population of passengers will arrange passengers to wait in the temporary sheds in front of the station and go through dedicated channel to the stop. So passengers, please wait in order.

Amanda reporters learned that during the Spring Festival, the four district of International Trade City will be shutdown on January 29th, 2011 (Lunar New Year December 26th) afternoon and reopened at 8:00 on February 14th (lunar calender January 12th). For this reason, merchants has started to stock up for  the Spring Festival in Yiwu market. “Lunar new year is coming, all kinds of cotton slippers, sports shoes and casual shoes sell well on the four districts of Yiwu market, however, ladies leather boots and snow boots enjoy the largest sales volume,” a Fujian Merchant told reporters on January 14th. Reporters saw on the fourth district of International Trade City that over the two days dealers are busy in preparing for delivering goods  to customers. One or several packaged products are  placed at each storefront, waiting to be loaded for transportation.

At present on Yiwu market, not only shoes business is hot but also hosiery, luggage, watches, toys, hardware and accessories industry enjoy hot selling. It is estimated that a small peak of stocking for business after the Spring Festival is expected to come in mid-January, because the Spring Festival of this year is almost later for half a month than last year. By then, the kitchen supplies (non-metal), travel shoes, hardware, stationery, rain gear and other industries buyers will increase replenishment. In addition, from the trend of purchasing small order and various order of last year, Yiwu market foreign trade is expected to appear Spring Festival holiday stock peak in advance.