Longhua Science and Technology Park

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]

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

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. "Firm Shaken by Suicides". Los Angeles Times. May 26, 2010.
  2. 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. "The Forbidden City of Terry Gou". The Wall Street Journal. 2007-08-11.
  5. "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.
  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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