Workers assemble heavy equipment at a factory in Qingzhou, Shandong province. A preliminary reading of the Purchasing Managers’ Index for the manufacturing industry edged down to 50.5 in December from 50.8 in November, the lowest level since October, HSBC Holdings Plc said…
The education authority in Shaanxi province has ordered a college that sent student interns to Foxconn to revise its cooperation agreement with the company to better protect students. Hui Chaoyang, director of the provincial education department, said the department has found problems…
The HSBC China Composite PMI data, which covers both manufacturing and service sectors in the country, signaled a further expansion of output in September, and the rate of expansion remained modest, with the index posting at 51.2 in September, easing from 51.8…
Innolux Corp aims to increase the penetration rate of its touch panels used in notebooks and all-in-one PCs to 50 percent next year, a company executive said yesterday. Only a very small portion of PCs worldwide are currently equipped with touch panels…
The plan to import 330 labourers for the Mai Po railway tunnel has come under fire by the unions who charge that the move would help bosses suppress the wages of local workers. The Labour Department recently approved an application by the…
Foxconn reportedly is looking to recruit more than 90,000 workers for its Shenzhen factory, putting more question marks on the company’s previous plan to deploy 1 million robots by 2014. According to a Yi Cai report Friday, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer is…
Chinese manufacturing remained weak last month with SME businesses suffering a bigger share of the pain, two surveys showed today. The official China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing’s manufacturing index strengthened slightly to 50.3 from June’s 50.1. Separately, the private HSBC purchasing…
General Motors has chosen the world’s second-largest luxury car market — China — to pit itself against automakers from Japan and Germany, despite the industry’s lagging fortunes there. The US-based carmaker said on Wednesday that it would invest $11 billion in the…
Taiwan technology giant Foxconn has been increasing its assembly-line workforce in central China in preparation for the manufacture of a new iPhone, the company and media said Tuesday. Foxconn has been hiring workers in its Zhengzhou plant and will continue to do…
At least one employee at Foxconn, the manufacturing giant best known for making Apple products, has reportedly jumped from a factory roof in Shenzhen, China due to concerns over job security. According to AppleInsider, which cited reports from Chinese micro-blogging website Sina…
