"You get Sundays off and you can go home and visit your family. "People like to work at this factory because you are close to your family if you are from Henan," Liu said. But when they heard Foxconn was opening a factory closer to their lao jia, or hometown, they took their savings and opened a restaurant serving the workforce. The two worked for several years at Foxconn's Longhua factory, once it's largest complex. When she was 18, she and her husband, who she had just met through a matchmaker, left their village to move to Shenzhen. Liu, like many of her fellow vendors, is from Henan and used to work at a Foxconn factory. We just make whatever is cheap and will fill the workers up," Liu told Business Insider. Liu and her husband have run one of the larger restaurants serving workers since the factory opened in 2010. Liu, a 31-year-old from Qian Hou, a village an hour's drive from Zhengzhou. "Every city's department of labor and ministry of human resources is involved," Liu Miao, the head of a private recruiting center in Zhengzhou, told the Times in 2016. In the run-up to the launch of the iPhone X, many students were found to be working overtime, which is illegal under Chinese law. And last year, the Financial Times reported that trade schools were requiring students as young as 16 to work at the factory to gain "work experience" to graduate. In 2016, state-owned coal companies lent workers to the factory. The province enforces quotas to local villages and cities for the number of workers they must provide to the factory. Meeting Foxconn's never-ending need for workers requires considerable effort from the government. Your personality must be optimistic, your work diligent." During the peak summer months, a speaker can be heard near the entrance calling, "We're recruiting the cream of society. The government even helps recruit, train, and house workers for the factory during peak iPhone production periods. The Foxconn Zhengzhou Science Park is actually more than 20 miles outside of downtown Zhengzhou, separated by freeways, outer suburbs, and dirt scrub lands. In the busy summer months before the fall release of a new iPhone, the factory produces 500,000 phones a day, or up to 350 a minute. The factory, run by Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, employs approximately 350,000 people and produces about half of the world's iPhones. If you use an iPhone, chances are it was made at a sprawling factory complex in Zhengzhou, China, a city of around 9.5 million people in Henan, historically one of the country's poorest provinces. But few saw a way out of the grinding factory lifestyle, where they work six days a week, see their spouses once a week if they are lucky, and frequently work dozens of hours of overtime.Foxconn, the workers told us, is no better or worse than any of the other factories they have worked at.The story that emerged was one of low pay and long hours, but altogether not that different from other factories in China.
We spent a day in "iPhone City," talking with residents, shop owners, and factory workers to hear about their lives.It employs up to 350,000 people and has spawned its own mini-city, which residents have taken to calling "iPhone City.".Half of the world's iPhones are made at a sprawling Foxconn factory complex in Zhengzhou, China.
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