page_title: Yiwu
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Yiwu / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: 13th-century Guyue Bridge. A single span stone arch bridge built during the Song Dynasty in 1213. "Gu" means ancient, "yue" the moon, so "Guyue Bridge" literally means the bridge of the ancient moon. Located in Yiwu — Jinhua prefecture, Zhejiang province, China. 中文: 古月橋，中國浙江省金華市義烏赤岸鎮，宋嘉定癸酉（公元1213年）季秋润月建造。全國重點文物保護單位，2006年6月公佈
context_page_description: Yiwu is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua in central Zhejiang province, East China. The city has about 1.2 million people, and its urban area, joined with that of the neighboring Dongyang, was home to 2,038,413 inhabitants according to the 2010 census. The city is famous for its light industry commodity trade and vibrant market, and as a regional tourist destination.
context_section_description: Yiwu contains an Olympic quality stadium. Many events associated with trade take place in Yiwu City. Yiwu also has a sizable Chinese Muslim and Korean population, mostly working in the import and export businesses, as well as a very small Jewish population also in those businesses. It also has a large Christian Church. Yiwu is also known as the "sock town" as annually it produces over three billion pairs of socks for Wal-Mart, Pringle and Disney. Yiwu is also known as China's number one producer of fashion jewellery as firms are based in Yiwu as there are many factories making unbranded jewellery and the amount of warehouses that are available to store the goods in.
  The Guyue Bridge, a stone arch bridge built in 1213, is one of the few existing bridges of that era.
caption: Guyue ("Ancient Moon") Bridge which dates back to the Song Dynasty
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