Across China: "World's supermarket" embraces global trade with vitality, confidence

HANGZHOU, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- As the Paris Olympics kicked off, 30,000 soccer balls made by Minsa, a Chinese sports brand based in east China's Yiwu, arrived over 10,000 kilometers away in Africa. Their design includes purple elements, as purple is one of the main colors of the Olympic venues.

At the same time, Minsa founder Chen Shaomei was welcoming first-time foreign customers to his store in the Yiwu Internat