There’s no elves, no snow and its thousands of miles from the North Pole. But what’s really missing from the real-life Santa’s Workshop – a grimy Chinese town that produces 60 percent of the world’s festive paraphernalia – is any interest in Christmas.

“I have absolutely no idea what this is,” a migrant worker named Wang tells The Telegraph, holding aloft a bauble emblazoned with a smiling red-nosed reindeer that she had just crafted at a factory in Yiwu.

In a couple of weeks, the peach-sized trimming will be hung from a Christmas tree in a Western household among dozens of sparkling, glittering decorations that were probably produced locally in the city in eastern China.

Ms Wang works at Dongyang Nuoya Art & Crafts Co, one of 800 Yiwu businesses that produce more than a billion yuan (£115 million) worth of decorations each year.