Yiwu · Full chronicle and history

On October 13, Yiwu Industrial and Commercial Vocational and Technical College announced the winning bid result for the "circumvention traffic audit system construction" project, with a bid price of 170,000 yuan. The bid documents require the system to query cross-border internet access records by account and generate personnel profiles, specifically naming BBC, the Chinese edition of The New York Times, China Digital Times, as well as X, Telegram, YouTube, etc., to identify no fewer than 200 circumvention "airports" (VPN providers) and block them in coordination with the firewall.

In July 2026, People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency and other central state media successively broadcast promotional videos, vigorously promoting the baffling, out-of-nothing governance discourse on Yiwu's development that Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward in 2006.

During a research symposium in Yiwu, then-Zhejiang Party Secretary Xi Jinping summarized the commercial rise of Yiwu as 'inexplicable,' 'creating something from nothing,' and 'turning stones into gold.'

Before his research trip to Yiwu in March 2006, Xi Jinping once used the term "inexplicable" to describe Yiwu's development.