Christmas trees at a stall in the Festival Arts section of Arts of Crafts inside the Yiwu International Trade Market - the world's largest wholesale market for small commodities. These plastic trees are made locally at the Sinte An factory.
A worker in the area outside the Sinte An Christmas tree factory where trees are sprayed with artificial snow. The factory produces a variety of artificial trees for global export throughout the year.
bout 60 percent of the world's Christmas decorations come from factories surrounding Yiwu.
At the Yiwu International Trade Market, Christmas decorations are available for bulk purchase all year round.
Workers sort tinsel at the Xin Shua tinsel factory. The factory makes around $4.4m-worth of tinsel each year.
Santa Claus masks on display at one of the 75,000 booths within the 8,000,000 square meters of Yiwu International Trade Market.
Grandma Wang, 65, at work in the Xin Shua tinsel factory. She works in tandem with her daughter-in-law, Wang Huimei, 22. They are both from Yunnan and are paid for each bunch of tinsel they pack into cardboard boxes.
Potential customers examine Christmas decorations on offer at a booth in the Festival Arts section of the Yiwu International Trade Market. Peak season for Christmas decorations is around mid-year, during the summer months.
A worker brings artificial trees to a small shed to be sprayed with artificial snow at Sinte An Christmas tree factory.
Reng Guoan, the general manager of the Sinte An Christmas tree factory, in his showroom. His company makes one million artificial trees a year, mostly for the US market. Around 100,000 trees are destined for the United Kingdom.
Zhao Yimin, 15, makes bundles of tinsel by hand at the Xin Shua tinsel factory. She and her mother are migrant workers from Guilin. Zhao attends a middle school for migrant workers, but has worked at the tinsel factory since she was 11 years old.
The workforce dedicated to Christmas decorations in Zhejiang mainly consists of migrant workers from poorer areas around the country.
A worker and a machine for manufacturing tinsel at Xin Shua tinsel factory.
Jessica Zhang sits in her booth displaying Christmas tinsel in the Festival Arts section of the Yiwu International Trade Market.
A worker sprays a Christmas tree with artificial snow at the Sinte An Christmas tree factory. The only protection he has against breathing in the chemicals is a surgical mask.
A vendor sleeps behind a desk in a stall of Christmas decorations inside the Festival Arts section of the Yiwu International Trade Market. Christmas decorations are available year round for bulk purchase, apart from over the Chinese New Year.