In the late 1970s, after Le Village and surrounding villages feathers for sugar industry gradually differentiate and spawned a new industry - small articles of daily business. According to the villagers recalled, about the beginning of the mid-1970s, the commodity in short supply in the rural market, the smart Petty Commodity Exchange providers in order to improve operating income in a timely manner pulling quasi-this business opportunity, starting with daily small articles of daily use in exchange for a feather waste, double profit in the exchange, and therefore an urgent need for a small piece of commodity supply. But in the original policy environment, they could not from the collective or state-owned units through normal channels to obtain the necessary small articles of daily use. Thus, the individual after the music and the neighboring village of farmers began to think to try for Petty Commodity Exchange to organize small pieces of commodity supply, specializes in small articles of daily use. Gradually evolved into an emerging Village Business Economy - Commodity management industry.
    More solid operating small articles of daily profit and other villagers in succession in the family and friends, driven to join the ranks of the small articles of daily business, and gradually formed an underground small articles of daily wholesale market in the town of 23. With its increasing impact of foreign businessmen to arrive in 23 years approved purchase small articles of daily use. After the reform and opening up a variety of factors, commodity markets began to extend to the county lake clear door After repeated easy to address, and expansion, and gradually developed into the famous "China's first city - Yiwu Small Commodity Market. Therefore, historical development, the original after music and other small articles of daily operation of the village who is 23, the first batch of the Commodity business can also be said to be the pioneer of of Yiwu operating industry. It is in this context, post-Lok Estate, where 23 town as the birthplace of the Yiwu small commodity market and commodity management industry.
    Under the impetus of the reform and opening policy, Yiwu small commodity market and commodity market around the rapid development, an important basis of the commodity management industry and effectively promoted the rise of of Yiwu operating industry. After a long business tradition and rich business experience music more themselves, and they have plunged into the sea, the rapid formation of a situation after the music business "in the eighties. According to incomplete statistics, in the 1980s, set up a stall in Yiwu small commodity market and commodity market around the direct management of small articles of daily Houle about nearly two hundred people. If you include their families, the business already occupies about half of the total population of less than 800 Le Village.
    1980s, the rapid rise of the commodity business industry, compared with the traditional feather-for-sugar has the following characteristics:
    First, from the transaction, Commodity business is no longer a barter transaction, completely based on the currency as a medium of modern commercial trading activities; is no longer retail trading, but wholesale transactions, or the wholesale and Chief Camp retail. Greatly expand the scale of operation.
    From operating system, Commodity business is no longer the flow of transactions without a fixed place, has become sitting business, villagers often said that the "stall". Business generally in Yiwu or foreign commodity market stalls to buy or lease the Commodity business, engaged in small commodity trading. Because of this, its business activities into a unified management of the market management department into a modern market management system, must follow the modern market operating rules. The same time, this phase of the commodity of operations of business entities belong to the individual business areas, but with feathers for sugar, it is no longer the personal behavior of the male villagers, usually husband and wife or father (mother) and child (female) travel together, cooperation management, dominated by men, also mostly women, is a special family-run system. In addition, the Commodity business is mostly wholesale, business process began to appear not too consignment, distribution and other operating systems.
Third, from the contents of the operation of the Commodity business is still mainly daily necessities, but no longer confined to the Petty Commodity Exchange cargo box can accommodate miniature items, it is further extended to the socks, bedding, lace, scarves, clothing and other daily commodities.
Fourth from the service object, the Commodity business is no longer rural residents as the main service, but for urban and rural residents. They provide goods business services to meet their different needs for all levels of urban and rural residents. However, a business unit (Booth), they tend to target certain sectors and groups, specializing in a certain or several small commodities, so the general department store differ.
    Fifth, from the operating area, the geographical of the Commodity business is no longer confined to the surrounding counties and provinces, and further expanded to all over the country and even abroad. Place of business is no longer predominantly rural, to the commodity markets in the city for the business place of business, the shift from rural to urban.
    In short, this phase of the commodity management industry after village commercial development of music in the history of a great turning point, it implements the fundamental transformation of business models in real terms has evolved into a modern business. At the same time, it led to significant changes in the economic structure of the village. Commodity business industry in this period after the Lok village economy has occupied the absolute dominant position, played a leading role. The village structure of the labor force, the highest proportion of businessmen, decreased the proportion of the farming labor.