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Communist ideals have long lost their value in Yiwu, a city with 600 Christmas factories, in which Christmas as we know it is produced for the entire world. With rising wages, the workers in Christmas factories can now afford newest iPhones, but they still live in crowded dormitories. All migrants in their own country, nostalgic for some place far away, some miss their families left in hometowns, other miss their friends and lovers from the factories when they go home for holidays. Young generation is already tired of long factory hours, chemical fumes and glitter particles, and they do not care for their parents' wishes to get educated. Stuck in between Chinese tradition and the newly discovered Chinese dream, they want their own businesses, to be rich, to be independent, to be in love.
Avis de la communauté (1)
[L'Alternativa] Between Yiwu and Madrid there is a 13,000 km2 railway line. The train that runs this commercial route for 16 days is called the "tren de todo a hundred." Christmas is made in Yiwu, but "even though we have almost 1,000 factories, we don't produce what the West needs." The protagonists are workers in this reconversion from communism to capitalism, which offers a false average standard of living. This collective portrait, with twenty minutes to spare, rightly displays a look of surprise at this system that produces waste material without any limits.