“那是大象神！卖得最多。你想要多少”，陈（音）指着他店里货架上的小型印度神像说，“需要更小的，我也有。要多少？”他不停地招揽生意。
这名35岁的中国人是一家礼品店的店主。他说自己不信神，可能对印度教一无所知。但是，他把印度神像从义乌卖到印度，赚到了很多钱。
你家里供奉的希瓦或哈奴曼神像，说不定就来自中国的义乌。义乌是世界上最大的小商品批发市场。面积为550万平方米，店铺多达7.5万家，有180万种商品，销往全球200个国家。
义乌的小商品种类丰富，从袜子到小玩具、从仿真花到时尚挂钟，可谓应有尽有。当地官员表示，世界上约70%的圣诞礼物来自这个距上海有3小时车程的小城。
如果缺少了义乌，中国的出口奇迹将是不完整的。
义乌出口最多的是印度。印度中产阶级对消费产品的无穷需求令义乌经济蓬勃发展。义乌市有关负责人表示：“印度是我们的最大贸易伙伴。我们主要的10个贸易伙伴，有8个来自亚洲。”2015年，义乌对外出口商品总额达338亿美元（原文如此），其中对印度出口为180亿美元，比2014年大增69%。
每天，数以千计的印度人云集这座城市，与店主讲价、采购中国商品。这些商品卖到印度后，价格几乎翻番，有时会更多。
在义乌的1.3万名外国人中，印度人就有1000个。他们中有一位名叫普拉蒂·夏帝利，在义乌当地政府相当出名。他提出了一些改善义乌贸易的建议，全部为当地政府所接受。
"That’s Ganesha! Sells the most. How many pieces do you want," asks Chin, pointing at the miniature idol of Hindu God sitting on the shelf of his shop.
"If you want a smaller one, I can give that also. How many" he prods further.
The 35-year-old Chinese owner of a gift shop, who claims to be an atheist and may not know anything about Hinduism, makes the most by trading the idols of Hindu Gods from Yiwu to India.
It is likely that the idol of Lord Shiva or Hanuman, reverently placed at your home, is from Chinese city Yiwu, the world’s largest small commodity wholesale market.
The capital of Zhejiang province in east China sells 1.8 million goods to about 200 countries through its 75,000 shopping booths spread in an area of 5.5 million square metres.
It is said it will take a year to visit all the shops if one walks eight hours every day and does not spend more than three minutes at each shopping booth.
Yiwu has it all, ranging from socks to gimcrack toys, and from artificial flowers to fancy wall clocks.
Officials in the provincial government told IANS that about 70 percent of the world’s Christmas gifts are from this city which is a three-hour drive from Shanghai.
China’s mind-numbing export story would be incomplete without Yiwu. Ninety-nine percent of its trade is from export.
And it is India to which Yiwu exports the most. The ravenous appetite of Indian middle class for consumer products keeps Yiwu’s economy thriving.
"India is our largest trading partner. And of the top 10 trading partners, eight are from Asia," Yiwu’s Vice Mayor Xiong Tao told IANS.
In 2015, Yiwu shipped goods worth $33.8 million to the world. Of it, export to India stood at $18 billion -- a whopping increase of 69 percent from 2014.
Thousands of Indians swarm the city every day to haggle over the price of Chinese goods for which Indian’s pay almost double -- sometimes more -- at home.
Of the 13,000 foreigners, 1,000 are Indians. Among them, Pradeep Shetty is quite famous among the bureaucratic circle and mandarins of Yiwu. So much so that the local government accepted all the proposals sent by Shetty to make Yiwu’s trade better.
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