Kim Bien Market

Kim Bien Market is located in the Cholon Chinatown area of District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, emerging spontaneously in the 1960s. It is the city's largest chemical wholesale hub, with about five hundred stalls according to local guides, a figure worth verifying. More than a hundred shops sell industrial and cosmetic chemicals, fragrances, packaging materials and plastic goods alongside general household supplies. Local authorities have tightened hazardous-chemical oversight in recent years, and the market continues to operate.

The market focuses on industrial and cosmetic chemical raw materials, fragrances, plastic packaging, nylon bags and small general goods, supplying factories, processing workshops and street traders across southern Vietnam in bulk. For Chinese exporters of chemical raw materials, packaging, hardware and daily-use goods, it is a specialized entry point into the Cholon Chinese-business wholesale network of Ho Chi Minh City.