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Your Christmas stuff is likely from Yiwu, a small town in China
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Your Christmas stuff is likely from Yiwu, a small town in China

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Ted Bauer
Dec 19, 2014
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Read this, then read this, then watch this:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Miou-6Aqg&w=620&h=315]

It's possible that 60 percent of the world's Christmas "stuff" comes from Yiwu, which is roughly located here:

[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d1781594.475138687!2d120.05107555000001!3d29.291819299999993!2m3!1f0!2f0…

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