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Simplified Chinese | 深圳富士康龙华园区 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 深圳富士康龍華園區 | ||||||||||
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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]
22°39′31″N 114°02′48″E / 22.6586°N 114.0466°E
Longhua Science and Technology Park | |||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 深圳富士康龙华园区 | ||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 深圳富士康龍華園區 | ||||||||||
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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]
22°39′31″N 114°02′48″E / 22.6586°N 114.0466°E