Russian Fire Makes Yiwu Mask Sales Soaring

In mid July, continuous high temperatures caused fires in many forests in Voronezh, Russia, with an area exceeding 190 thousand hectares.

Continuous fires caused smoke and dust, resulting in the pollution of the ecological environment in many parts of Russia and the rapid decline of air quality.

Moscow and Moscow have been shrouded in thick smoke for nearly two weeks.

People have to wear masks to travel, and masks have become hot necessities.

To meet the demand, many Russian businessmen rushed to Yiwu, Zhejiang to order masks.

"Summer was originally a sales season for masks. Who knows a forest?

Wu Xuzhen said, buyers are mostly disposable masks, each about 6 to 7 cents.

In order to catch up with the market, all customers are required to send them by air.

"Traditional pportation takes a month, it may not catch up with the hot tide, and air pportation only needs 4 or 5 days, so all air pportation is required."

Market statistics also show the current hot degree of sales of masks in Yiwu.

According to market management statistics, in recent days, sales of daily masks in Yiwu exceeded 6 million, exceeding 5 million of last year's armour.

But market management analysts believe that this sales boom will soon disappear.

"The hot wave brought by the fire will not last for a long time. Once it is put out, the sales of mask will quickly drop."