In the past two months, Chinese cross-border merchants represented by Yiwu have prepared more than 10 million peripheral products and sold them all over the world through AliExpress, China’s cross-border export e-commerce platform, to participate in this World Cup. Netizens jokingly said: no matter which country scores the goal in the end, the first to enter the World Cup are Chinese cross-border merchants.
As the Yiwu products on AliExpress are selling hot outside the arena, people gradually discovered that the “Yiwu Index” reproduced the “God’s Prophecy”. Even in the first round of the group stage, AliExpress Yiwu merchants successfully predicted the results of multiple rounds through the national flag sales ranking, with an accuracy rate as high as 73%. Although the prediction of the semi-finals was not accurate, on the eve of the final, there was another news that “Yiwu Index predicts that Argentina will win the championship”.
Zhan Deliang, general manager of Yiwu Sucheng Trading, said, “After Argentina won the victory, the sales of our Argentine flag on the AliExpress platform suddenly increased, which was 4 times higher than last week’s daily sales, and the number of store visits also increased 8 times. .In fact, after the semi-finals were decided, the Argentine flag gradually became popular, and it was twice as high as usual.”
