Weekly Working Days #
5 Days
Daily Working Hours #
0800-1700
Student Age #
3-6 years old
Class Size #
15-20 Students
Starting Date #
Feb-2025
Requirements for Teachers #
Education Background #
BA or above
Good Clear English Accent #
ESL Native Speaker
Teaching Experience #
2 Years or Above Preferred
Visa Type #
Be qualified for a teaching visa
Other Requirements #
Be Qualified for Teaching VIsa
1. BA or above degree
2. Hold No Criminal Check
3. Hold Physical Check
4. Has 2 years or above related teaching experience
About #
Yiwu (simplified Chinese: 义乌; traditional Chinese: 義烏; pinyin: Yìwū) is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Jinhua in Central Zhejiang Province, East China. As of the 2020 census, the city had 1,859,390 inhabitants and its built-up (or metro) area, joined with that of the neighboring Dongyang, was home to 2,947,340 inhabitants. [3]The city is famous for its light industry commodity trade and vibrant market and as a regional tourist destination.
History #
Yiwu was founded as Wushang City (乌商) in 222 BCE, right before the Qin dynasty. It was renamed Yiwu County in 624 CE. Trade has been historically important in Yiwu since the surrounding area has little arable soil. Even before 1600s, Yiwu men would carry sewing needles, threads, sugar chunks and other small commodities in their bamboo baskets, using a shoulder-pole and travel to surrounding rural villages in exchange for chicken feathers. Chicken feathers could be either used as a fertilizer for their own lands or made into feather dusters for exporting. This “Sugar-For-Chicken Feathers” tradition had become part of Yiwu culture. As the trading population grew larger, the earliest wholesale markets emerged in Yiwu around 1700s. After the founding of People’s Republic of China in 1949, the free market was once considered capitalistic and hence officially suppressed, forcing Yiwu people to continue their trade secretly. It was only after Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform in 1978 did the Yiwu market thrive again, becoming one of the first free marketplaces in PRC’s history. The cement boards over a stinky ditch nearby Huqingmen street, set up by the local government as the first marketplace in 1982, later became the present day Yiwu International Trade Mart after 27 years of development.[4]
In May 1988 the former Yiwu County was upgraded to a county-level city. In 1995 Yiwu ranked the 47th among China’s 100 most powerful counties/cities regarding comprehensive economic strength and in the same year listed as Zhejiang’s sole city among the nation’s experimental counties/cities of comprehensive reform. In 2001 Yiwu’s overall economy ranked 19th of all counties (cities) of China.
Yiwu’s early culture has given birth to a number of notable figures in literature, art, military, education and engineering. Among these were Chen Wangdao, China’s first translator of the Communist Manifesto; Wu Han, historian and former deputy mayor of Beijing; Zhu Zhixi, the engineer who harnessed the Yellow River; Zhu Danxi, one of the four distinguished doctors of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties; Zong Ze, a well-known general from the Song dynasty who resisted aggression by the State of Jin; and the ancestors of Wang Leehom, a famous singer.
Geography #
Yiwu is located 100 km (62 mi) south of the city of Hangzhou, the provincial capital. The nearest city to Yiwu is Dongyang. The area, as in most of the province of Zhejiang, is in a mountainous region.
Administration #
Yiwu is part of the greater Municipal region of Jinhua, although it has a distinct urban core. On China’s administrative strata it is a sub-prefecture level city. It has under its jurisdiction 15 towns and eight villages, which covers 1,102.8 square kilometres, 100 square kilometres of which are urban area of 700,000 people (2010 estimate). There has been talk of merging the Yiwu and Jinhua areas into a single municipal zone or economic entity, but this plan has yet to make its way into any formal discussion.[citation needed]
The city, in 2020 opened a database for post-2017 domestic violence incidents. According to the All-China Women’s Federation, it was the first time a Chinese municipality has enacted such a database.[9] The system was to be launched July 1 that year.[10] The vice president of the Yiwu chapter of the federation, Zhou Danying, stated that in many cases an abusive partner reveals this trait post-marriage.[11] The impetus was an increase in such incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic.[12]
In July 2020, Yiwu became the first city in China to allow residents check their partners’ domestic violence records, aimed at reducing incidents of domestic violence.
