Longhua Science and Technology Park
Simplified Chinese深圳富士康龙华园区
Traditional Chinese深圳富士康龍華園區

Science and Technology Park (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.[1]

The park produces the bulk of Apple's iPhone line.[2] Hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000,[2] 300,000,[1] and 450,000[3]) are employed at the site, a walled campus[4] sometimes referred to as “Foxconn City”.[5] Covering about 3 km2 (1.2 sq mi) ,[6] it includes 15 factories,[5] 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.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Firm Shaken by Suicides". Los Angeles Times. May 26, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Duhigg, Charles; Keith Bradsher (January 21, 2012). "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work". New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Foxcon Plans To Increase China Workforce to 1.3 Million". Focus Taiwan News Channel. 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-19.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "The Forbidden City of Terry Gou". The Wall Street Journal. 2007-08-11.
  5. 1 2 "Suicides at Foxconn: Light and Death". The Economist. May 27, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Foxconn Workers in China Say 'Meaningless' Life Sparks Suicides". BusinessWeek. June 2, 2010. Archived from the original on June 2, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Apple, Dell, and HP comment on suicides as Foxconn CEO shows off the pool". Engadget. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  8. ↑ "A Night at the Electronics Factory". The New York Times. June 19, 2010.

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