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The answer is, from a small city (by Chinese standards) of about one million people, named Yiwu (pronounce it as eeewooo) in Zhejinag Province, roughly 2 hours south of Shanghai (if you travel on the Very Fast train, at up to 300 km/hour).
In this city, some 750 factories churn out the baubles that make Jesus happy.
And National Geographic takes you to Suzhou (one of my favourite cities) to see how your (artificial) chrissie tree is made:
The city of Yiwu is supposed to have approximately 60% of the world chrissie decoration market. The factories are not sophisticated, neither are the workers,
Meet a family that left their home village to make some money in a big city, to cover their son's marriage expenses.
This is the son, his name is Wei, and he's aged 19. He knows little about what he makes, just does what he's told. When discussing the holiday. Wei says he knows that Christmas is a festival, but doesn't really know what it's about, “Maybe it’s the [Chinese] New Year for foreigners.”
