Longhua Science and Technology Park explained

Science and Technology Park (Chinese: 深圳富士康龙华园区) is a technology park in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in the south of China, that is Foxconn's largest factory site worldwide. It gained notoriety in 2010 after a spate of suicide attempts, many of them successful, by employees at the Foxconn facilities in the area, totaling 15 attempts that year, 10-13 of which were fatal.

The park produces the bulk of Apple's iPhone line. Hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000,[1] 300,000,[2] and 450,000[3]) are employed at the site, a walled campus[4] sometimes referred to as “Foxconn City”. Covering about,[5] it includes 15 factories,[6] worker dormitories, 4 swimming pools,[7] a fire brigade,[4] its own television network (Foxconn TV),[4] and a city centre with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and hospital.[4] While some workers live in surrounding towns and villages, others live and work inside the complex;[8] a quarter of the employees live in the dormitories, and many of them work up to 12 hours a day for 6 days each week.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. News: How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work . Charles . Duhigg . Keith Bradsher . The New York Times . January 21, 2012 . January 24, 2012.
  2. News: Firm Shaken by Suicides. Los Angeles Times. May 26, 2010.
  3. News: Foxcon Plans To Increase China Workforce to 1.3 Million. Focus Taiwan News Channel. 2010-08-19 . 2010-08-19.
  4. Web site: The Forbidden City of Terry Gou. The Wall Street Journal. 2007-08-11.
  5. News: Foxconn Workers in China Say 'Meaningless' Life Sparks Suicides. https://web.archive.org/web/20100602102509/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-02/foxconn-workers-in-china-say-meaningless-life-sparks-suicides.html . dead . June 2, 2010 . BusinessWeek. June 2, 2010.
  6. News: Suicides at Foxconn: Light and Death. The Economist. May 27, 2010.
  7. Web site: Apple, Dell, and HP comment on suicides as Foxconn CEO shows off the pool . Engadget . 2012-02-10.
  8. News: A Night at the Electronics Factory. The New York Times. June 19, 2010.