The Ten Factories Behind Most of Our Catalogue

Before the list, the company that sits above it.

Yifeng Group (艺丰集团) is our manufacturing partner in Chenghai, Shantou — the district that is one of China’s principal toy manufacturing bases. It is not a single plant but a group: Shifeng Culture Development Co., Ltd, founded 1992, running more than 35,000 m² of production area with an annual output of USD 60 M; Huabo Smart Living Technology Co., Ltd, established 2018 and holding national CCC certification; and AJT Testing Services Limited, founded 2007, a product testing laboratory of its own. The group keeps a permanent 15,000 m² showroom in Shantou with more than 500,000 toy samples on display.

It appears above the table rather than in it because it is a different kind of entity: design, tooling, production, testing and freight inside one group, rather than one factory making one kind of thing. The full account is on our factory partner page.

Each name links to that factory’s live storefront, where its current products are listed with prices and carton quantities. The counts here are of items on the storefront at the time of writing; the storefronts themselves are always current.

Read the last column again. Of the ten suppliers with the most products in our catalogue, eight have no factory test document in our records at all. One reaches 4.3%, one reaches 1.7%, and only Zhejiang Xingna Crafts, at 77.5%, is documented the way a buyer selling into a regulated market needs.

We should say precisely what this does and does not mean. It does not mean those eight factories make unsafe goods or that their products have never been tested. It means no test report has reached our records, which usually happens because a factory selling mainly into the domestic market has never had to produce one.

What it does mean is practical: if you build a range by walking down this list, you are building it out of undocumented goods, and the paperwork will have to be arranged afterwards at your cost and on your timeline. Selecting for documentation instead gives you a much shorter list and a much easier import. Which is the right trade depends on where you sell — the detail is in our articles on which toys are actually tested and why shipments get held.

We publish this column because the alternative is publishing only the first one, and a list of our biggest suppliers with the documentation quietly omitted would be an advertisement rather than information.

The first version of this table was wrong, and the way it was wrong is worth explaining because it is a trap anyone working with supplier data will meet.

We counted by factory name. The result contained one company three times over, and a factory whose median price came out at ¥0.19 — nineteen fen, a figure no toy has ever cost.

The cause: 184 factory names in our register have more than one record behind them. Different companies share a name, or the same company was entered twice from different sources. Counting by name pooled all of their products into each record and produced arithmetic about a company that does not exist.

Counting by the factory number instead — the identifier that each product actually carries — gives the table above. Same data, correct answer. We mention it because we published the wrong version to nobody and would rather explain the correction than pretend the first attempt never happened.

OPTTOYSCHINA is a wholesale platform operated by OPTTOYSCHINA LLP, Kazakhstan: catalog, requests and product selection. The seller — invoice, payment, export, documents and claims — is our manufacturing partner Yifeng Group, China. The catalogue holds 385,341 items from 5,233 factories, with the price published per piece and per carton, the carton quantity and the box dimensions stated, and the maker named on every card. The minimum is one factory carton of one model; minimum order total 2,000 CNY (≈ $313).

Our manufacturing partner is Yifeng Group (艺丰集团) in Chenghai, Shantou. The group has worked in Chenghai since 1992; its first plant, Shifeng Culture Development Co., Ltd, dates from that year and runs more than 35,000 m² of production area with an annual output of USD 60 M. AJT Testing Services Limited, founded in 2007, is historically linked with the group’s founding family and works in the same Chenghai ecosystem; the group keeps a permanent 15,000 m² showroom in Shantou with more than 500,000 toy samples. See our factory partner page.

Every batch is checked line by line with photo and video before the cartons are taped, and transit ranges are published for 62 destinations.

Largest in our catalogue, not in China. This is a count of items on our own shelves. A factory that supplies us with 1,287 products may be a modest company with a broad range, and an enormous manufacturer we do not buy from does not appear at all. We have no basis for a national ranking and are not making one.

Not a quality judgement. We have not compared these factories on quality, delivery or defect rate, and nothing here should be read as a recommendation of one over another.

We do not publish each factory’s address. Our register records all 5,233 factories under the Shantou hub, which is where we source — it is not a verified registered address for each company, and we are not going to present it as one. Where a company’s name contains a different city, that tells you about the name, not about a location we have checked.

And the counts move. Product counts change as factories add and withdraw lines. The figures here were measured on 24 September 2026; the live count for each factory is on its own storefront page, which is linked from the table and always current.