‘They’re hiring less’: China’s ‘iPhone City’ falls quiet as market rivalry intensifies


The giant iPhone assembly plant in Zhengzhou has cut back on hiring as Apple loses market share in China and Foxconn shifts production overseas. — SCMP

Yukang, a cluster of housing complexes, restaurants and supermarkets on the outskirts of the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, used to be a bustling hub for China’s migrant workforce.

Its streets were thronged with labour dispatch agents hiring for the nearby super factory run by Foxconn Technologies, which assembles most of the world’s iPhone handsets for American tech giant Apple.

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