China plans biggest smart phone production base
26 Dec 2011
Central China's Henan province aims to build the world's largest smart phones manufacturing base next year, local authorities said.
The base will be located at the Foxconn Science Park in Zhengzhou, provincial capital of Henan, raising its current production lines to 95, said the Henan provincial development and reform commission during a conference.
The expansion plan will cost around 7 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) and is expected to generate $20 billion in sales revenue in 2012, the commission said.
Foxconn, the world's largest contractor of electronic components and principal supplier to Apple, established new factories in Henan and Sichuan last year, aimimg to leverage low labour costs and rising markets in the inland provinces.
The daily production at new plant in Zhengzhou has reached 200,000 Apple iPhones and employed 130,000 people, said Guo Gengmao, governor of Henan Province.
The company currently employs 1.2 million people, with about 1 million of them based on the Chinese mainland.
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