“The real North Pole is in China.
About 300 kilometers out of Shanghai is the town of Yiwu, where 60% of the world’s Christmas decorations are made by workers in 600 factories and shipped around the globe.
Design studio Unknown Fields Division and photographer Toby Smith took a peek into the Christmas village while tracing the supply chain of the world’s consumer products across the South China sea, following cargo routes and heading inland to their production bases.” *
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.
*Read more here from http://mashable.com/2014/12/22/christmas-factory-yiwu/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link
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