Raj Kumar Khadka has spent the past nine years handling imports and exports as a foreign trader in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, and now spends two days a month as a volunteer mediator, helping to resolve commercial disputes in the trading hub for small commodities that's been dubbed the world's supermarket.
Yiwu’s expatriate community helps improve local business environment
Chen Shasha in Zhejiang Published: May 25, 2021 01:53 PM
Sushil Agrawal poses for a photo with sanitation workers in Yiwu in 2015, when he joined a charity activity to send cooling products to those work in the summer heat. Photo: courtesy of Sushil AgrawalThe People s Mediation Committee for Foreign-related Disputes of Yiwu City in East China s Zhejiang, a mechanism set up with support from local justice authorities in 2013 to solve commercial disputes amid increasing foreign trade, has so far involved in a total of 18 foreign nationals in dispute mediation, an innovative effort to improve the local business environment.