Yiwu builds ever bigger on sale of small goods

For 20 years, Lyu Chengjun has run an electronic weighing scale business in Yiwu, a city in East China's Zhejiang province known as "the world's capital of small commodities". Along with the transformation of the city itself, his business has grown big, with more than 200,000 items exported each year to Africa, the Middle East, South America and other regions.

Regarding the development of his company, Constant Scale, Lyu, 50, said that for him, innovation is constant. "By innovating products to increase their added value, we gain a competitive edge in the international market, which is beneficial for long-term development."

Lyu said that he actively employs new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to analyze data on the differentiated needs of foreign clients, allowing his company's products to better align with the demand for weighing scales in the global market.