Retailers' practice of offering new product designs annually also plays to Yiwu's advantage. This year's best-sellers are products in the millennial-friendly colors of palepink and mint, says Ziru Christmas Crafts' Hong, and such changes require coordination among a tightly knit supply chain. Each pink mini tree with snowflakes and acorns requires three suppliers to adjust to her vision, she says. "It's not as easy as it looks to make a little tree like this. Every part is from a different factory." （China's Christmas Village Isn't Worried About Trump's Trade War，by Bloomberg Businessweek）
Comment：
China has been changing its image of low-tech and low-end manufactures in artware design. Yiwu's shifting toward higher-value manufacting and design makes itself become a new innovation center.
(Editor Shao Jingjing)
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