Take a look at these fascinating toy factories!

Toys provide children with the tools that help them relate to the world in which they live.

Manufacturing toys is a huge business.

Those associated with the industry keep pace with the rapidly changing society and provide youngsters with appropriate playthings that cater to their creativity and imagination.

We present here glimpse of toy manufacturing factories from around the globe.

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Workers make stuffed animals to be exported to Europe and America at a toy factory in Ganyu county, Zhejiang province, China.

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A worker stuffs a toy bear with cotton at a toy factory in Wuhan, Hubei province, January 15, 2014.

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Partially assembled dolls are pictured at a doll production private plant Svitanak in Mogilyov, Belarus.

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A worker assembles toy cars at a production line inside a factory in Jinjiang, Fujian province, China.

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Toy heads of Fuleco the Armadillo, the official mascot of the FIFA 2014 World Cup, are seen at a factory in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

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Playmobil figures pile up beneath a conveyor belt on the assembly line at the Playmobil Malta factory in the Hal Far Industrial Estate outside Valletta, Malta.

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A room is pictured inside a 'Barbie Dreamhouse' of Mattel's Barbie dolls in Berlin.

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Plastic Santa Claus toys are seen at Christmas shop in Yiwu, Zhejiang province, China.

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Workers perform quality checks for newly made toys at the production line of a toy factory in the suburbs of Shanghai, China.