With Central Chengzhong Road on the north, Huangyuan Road on the west and Chouzhou Road on the south, Yiwu Knitgoods(socks) Market is located at 93 Central Chengzhong Road. The main market consists of three two-story separate buildings, which covers an area of 27,654 square meters (with the total floor area of 28,984 square meters).
As a Zhejiang three-star model model market, Yiwu Knit goods(socks) Market is the largest special market for socks and stockings trade in China. The market is made up of socks booths, socks stores, knitting machine fittings area and fine products center, among which the 2012 socks booths are located on the first floor of the main maket, some of the 258 sock stores lie in the central corridor and the others surrounds the main market. Outside the market is the specialized street with more than 1000 stores dealing in underwear and bras.
The knitting raw materials area was set up as more and more raw materials were required by the fast growing knitting enterprises in Yiwu, lying on the second floor of the main market, there are 223 stores with the total area of 2,430 square meters offering cotton yarn, chemical fiber and some knitting accessories. The annual sales volume of raw materials reaches 300,000 tons by more than 200 dealers, among whom more than 30 are local dealers or manufacturers, nearly 100 enterprises from other cities and 100 general agents or distributors.
Gathering some well-known enterprises with their own registered trademarks, the fine products center actually is the direct distribution center. More than 40 shop dealers, who have their own registered trademarks and factories, mark the addresses of the factories and hang their quality credit signs issued by the center. And 58 registered trademarks belong to the 40 socks enterprises including some famous manufacturers like Langsha, Mengna, Fenli.