Cctv news(Reporter Wang Xiaoying): There is a bronze shop at the corner of No.6 Grand Bazaar Street. Suleiman McMatimin is here to sell all kinds of exquisite bronzes to tourists from south to north, and the corner has become a place for many people to take pictures and punch cards;
Not far away, Nurguli Musrehong also has a store that specializes in selling dried fruits from Xinjiang. With this store, she let both her children go to college, and she and her husband also made friends from all over the country.
In the Grand Bazaar Food Street, Abdul Limu Abdul Reheman opened a grilled fish shop, and accidentally became the "online celebrity" of Grand Bazaar, which also made his family live a good life … …
This is Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar. They are all merchants doing business in Grand Bazaar. Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar is known as the "window of Xinjiang". They have witnessed the prosperity of Grand Bazaar, and life is getting better and better because of Grand Bazaar.

International Bazaar
Sulaiman McMatimin: I came to the Grand Bazaar from Kashgar to let more people know about handmade bronzes.
In 1996, Sulaiman McMatimin came to Urumqi from his hometown of Kashgar.
At first, he only sold handicrafts in Erdaoqiao market. Since he was a child, he watched his uncle make bronzes and learned the craft of making bronzes himself, so he started the handmade bronzes business.
In the life of Uighurs, people generally like to use bronzes. Pots for water, pots for cooking and plates for rice are all made by hand.

Suleiman McMatimin
I’m new here, but it’s hard to do business, Suleiman McMuntimin. Fortunately, in Erdaoqiao Market, he met Zhang Xingjian, who is engaged in dried fruit business. The two booths are next to each other, and the other side sometimes helps him translate and even teaches him how to greet guests.
In 2017, Zhang Xingjian opened a shop in Grand Bazaar, and the business was very good. After a while, he told Sulaiman McMatimin that there were more and more tourists in Grand Bazaar and suggested that he also come.
So Sulaiman McMatimin also came to the Grand Bazaar and opened a bronze shop. Bronze mirrors as small as the palm of your hand, exquisite copper bottles as big as people’s height, traditional bronze wares by Kashgar craftsmen and painted bronze wares with pure plant pigments. In Suleiman McMartimin’s shop, all kinds of handmade copper products are dazzling.
Sulaiman McMatimin said that at first he only sold hand-made bronzes. Later, in order to meet the needs of more tourists, his purchase channels expanded from Kashgar to Pakistan, Iran and other places. In a few years, his stores have also expanded to three: One shop specializes in selling craftsmen’s traditional bronzes, and the other two shops were opened by him to sell painted bronzes with pure plant pigments.
Nurguli Musrehong: Start a second career in Grand Bazaar.
When it comes to doing business, Nurguli Musrehong has his own set of methods. After entering the store, while greeting the guests, she said to the guests who had just entered the door, you can taste what you want first, and then buy it when it is delicious.
In Nurguli Musrehong’s view, doing business, enthusiasm and trust are all important.

Nurguli Musrehong
Fifteen years ago, because her husband was laid off, they heard that they could do business in Xinjiang International Bazaar, so they rented a shop and sold dried fruits.
"It’s good to start a business just now," said Nurguli Musrehong. At first, she didn’t know how to do business, but she knew that the quality of the things she sold must be good and she should be enthusiastic.
Therefore, she always selects the best dried fruits carefully, and sometimes customers buy too much, which is inconvenient to carry. They will help customers send them to taxis or even mail them.
In this way, she has many repeat customers and even recommends them to friends around her. In order to gain the trust of customers, she will even choose cash on delivery. "Trust is mutual," said Nurguli Musrehong. It is impossible not to worry, but she wants customers to see her sincerity.
With the increase of passenger flow, the demand of customers has increased, and she has added shawls, medicinal materials and jewelry one after another. With more varieties of business, the income will naturally increase, and the average daily income during the tourist season is around 3,000 yuan.
Through doing business, she also made friends from all over the country, a customer in Jiangxi. When she learned that they like to drink black tea, she sent him black tea, and she also gave him dried fruits on holidays.
Because of the epidemic, the number of tourists visiting the Grand Bazaar decreased, so she started Wechat business again and "shouted" in her circle of friends every day when she was free.
In fact, when she first started selling dried fruits, Nurguli Musrehong was still working in the railway system, and usually used her rest time to take care of the shops. She said that she had already developed a second career, and she concentrated on doing business after retiring this year.
There are also many happy events in her family this year. After her son graduated from Xi ‘an Jiaotong University with a master’s degree, she successfully passed the civil service examination. The daughter of Beijing Dance Academy was lucky enough to participate in the large-scale cultural performance of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC). The community informed her husband that as a flexible employee, he could enjoy social security subsidies, with a subsidy of 20,000 yuan for three years, with one happy event after another.
Abdul Limu Abdul Reheman: I accidentally became the "online celebrity" of Grand Bazaar with grilled fish.
Abdul Limu Abdul Reheman is a native of Mo Yuxian in Hotan area. In the past, he and his wife sold grilled fish in Mo Yuxian night market. Later, they heard from their brother that Urumqi was crowded and business was easy, so they came to Urumqi.
Here, because his master is from Bachu, he named the store Bachu Grilled Fish Shop.

Abdul Limu Abdul Reheman
At first, he just set up a food stall in Erdaoqiao, Urumqi. At that time, Erdaoqiao was not like now, it was still an old market, and there were not so many people now. The people who came to eat fish were the people around him. The business was not very good. He sold about 10 fish every day and didn’t earn much. He even got a little discouraged and wanted to go back to Mo Yuxian.
Later, the environment in Grand Bazaar became better and better, there were more tourists and business began to improve. On August 15, 2018, he only ordered 50 fish at first, but it was sold out in less than 2 hours. He quickly ordered 50 more. Abdul Limu Abdul Reheman still remembers that the best day of business was the National Day holiday in 2018, when he earned 45,000 yuan a day.
The fish baked by Abdul Limu Abdul Reheman are almost all the freshest cold-water fish shipped from Altay. They are baked with fruit trees, and the seasoning is a folk secret formula handed down more than 100 years ago. The fish does not need to be salted in advance, so tourists eat the most Xinjiang flavor.
Because it was delicious, many tourists filmed his grilled fish on a video platform, and he became the "online celebrity" of the Grand Bazaar.
Now, their family is in Urumqi, and they have a house and a car. Their two children also go to school in Urumqi, and their daughter graduated from college this year. Many friends even learned from him when they saw that he made money here.


























