This Day, That Year

Item from Dec 16, 1993, in China Daily: A toy products trader gets two youngsters fired up with a toy train in Fengtai county, Anhui province. ... China has become the biggest supplier of toys to the United States, the world's largest market.

The achievement is a benchmark in 10 years of development which has seen China become a major toymaker.

China remains the world's largest toy manufacturer, producing about 70 percent of toys globally, according to latest statistics from the General Administration of Customs. Last year, the country's toy exports grew by 41 percent year-on-year, hitting $26.3 billion.