Mediator solving Yiwu traders' problems

International trader Tirera Sourakhata prefers to be called a "civil facilitator" than a successful businessman.

As founder and general manager of Yiwu Crestone Trading Co, he has spent most of the past 15 years in Yiwu - the so-called global capital of small commodities - in eastern China's Zhejiang province.

While making money was the initial goal, today Sourakhata, 41, also devotes his time to helping fellow Africans settle or solve disputes in the city.