Malcolm Moore visits the Atopp toy factory in Shantou, finding remote control helicopters and harmony<br /><br />Yang Jiandong is a Chinese Christmas elf; toys and gadgets division.<br /><br />Here in steamy South China, 6,000 miles away from your front room, the trim and sprightly 39-year-old runs one of the thousands of factories that make the iPads and Furbies, Transformer robots and LeapPads that will soon be waiting under our Christmas trees.<br /><br />This year, his favourite gadget is a remote-controlled flying battle drone from the movie Avatar.<br /><br />He giggles when, after navigating it around the showroom, it crashes into the wall. "No problem," he smiles. "These ones are hard to break".<br /><br />His company, Attop, turns out 800,000 remote-controlled helicopters a year but also makes accessories for Barbies, puzzles and Hot Wheels cars for Mattel.<br /><br />Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/<br /><br />Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=telegraphtv<br /><br />Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/telegraph.co.uk<br />Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/telegraph<br />Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/102891355072777008500/<br /><br />Telegraph.co.uk and YouTube.com/TelegraphTV are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.
