iPhone City

Foxconn Technology Group has brought the world’s largest iPhone plant to about 90% of anticipated peak capacity. Foxconn Technology Group has brought the world's largest iPhone plant to about 90% of anticipated peak capacity, suggesting Apple Inc.'s biggest main production partner has secured enough workers despite a Covid resurgence and recent staff upheaval. Foxconn's plant in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou is now operating with roughly 200,000 staff, the official Henan Daily reported, citing Foxconn…

According to the Wall Street Journal, the people involved in the discussions said that Apple is also looking to reduce the dependence on Taiwanese assemblers. Apple, in recent weeks, is accelerating its plans to shift some of its production outside China and telling suppliers to plan more for assembling the product elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam. According to the Wall Street Journal, the people involved in the discussions said that Apple is also looking to reduce the dependence on Taiwanese…

The Chinese city of Zhengzhou shuttered hundreds of buildings and apartment blocks hours after lifting broader lockdown measures. The Chinese city of Zhengzhou shuttered hundreds of buildings and apartment blocks hours after lifting broader lockdown measures, as officials strive to make their Covid controls more targeted in line with Beijing's directives. The city, home to Apple Inc.'s largest manufacturing site in China, said late Tuesday that it was lifting a lockdown of its main urban areas put in place five days…

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Without giving any advance notice about the measure to curb Covid transmission, China’s Zhengzhou relocated 870 iPhone workers. China's Zhengzhou — the capital of Henan province known as “iPhone City” — relocated 870 workers to a hub about 230 miles away in a neighboring province, without giving them any advance notice about the measure to curb Covid transmission.The workers were transported to Xuzhou in Jiangsu province early Friday “without prior communications,” the city's authorities said in a statement Saturday on…

Six million people were on Friday under Covid lockdown in a Chinese city home to the world's largest iPhone factory, after clashes between police and workers furious over pay. Authorities have ordered residents of eight districts in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan, not to leave the area for the next five days, setting up barriers around "high-risk" apartment buildings and checkpoints to restrict travel. There have been only a handful of coronavirus cases in the city but under China's zero-Covid policy…

City centre residents cannot leave the area unless they have a negative Covid test and permission from local authorities, and are advised not to leave their homes "unless necessary". China has ordered six million people into lockdown in a city where violent protests broke out at an iPhone factory over Covid isolation policies and working conditions.Hundreds of workers took to the streets around the vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou on Wednesday, confronting hazmat-clad personnel wielding batons in a rare display of…

Covid cases have more than doubled in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, dampening hopes that authorities will lift a lockdown of the area surrounding the world’s largest iPhone factory. (Bloomberg) -- Covid cases have more than doubled in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, dampening hopes that authorities will lift a lockdown of the area surrounding the world's largest iPhone factory. A seven-day lockdown of the Airport Economy Zone, which houses Apple Inc.'s global iPhone production base, expires noon…