浙江义乌是全国最大的小商品市场。多年来义乌的商业一直保持着较高的增长速度,2002年义乌商品市场成交额为265亿元,同比增长高达9.8％。然而,在商贸业持续增长的背后,义乌人却渐渐感觉到了危机:一是随着经济的发展,义乌的劳动力成本逐渐攀高,科技含量很低的小商品已往经济欠发达地区转移,在石家庄等地冒出的与义乌早年相似的小商品市场,已造成这类商品的分流;二是人世之后,国外大型商业抢占和分割城市终端市场,势必造成小商品部分市场分流,直接 Zhejiang Yiwu is the country’s largest commodity market. Yiwu’s business has maintained a relatively high growth rate over the years. In 2002, the turnover of Yiwu goods market was 26.5 billion yuan, up by 9.8% over the same period of last year. However, behind the continuous growth of commerce and trade, Yiwu people gradually felt the crisis: First, with the economic development, Yiwu’s labor cost gradually increased. Low-tech small commodities have been transferred to underdeveloped areas in Shijiazhuang and other places Second, after the advent of the WTO, foreign large-scale commercial seizures and segregation of urban end markets will inevitably result in the diversion of small-commodity markets directly and indirectly