By Chris Chang, posted Jan 30, 2012 at 9:03 PM, 15,075 views,

Thousands Line Up For Foxconn’s Jobs in Zhengzhou (video)

On the 30th of January, thousands of hopefuls stood for hours outside a labor agency located in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, the largest city of Henan province in north-central China. The lines stretched more than 200 meters along the road, and the people who were waiting in line with their applications just hope to get a job at Foxconn, as the electronics contracting giant ramps up its iPhone production at Zhengzhou plant …


Local news report on the recruitment (in Chinese)

Previously, we reported that Foxconn is working with the city of Zhengzhou to double the size of the workforce at its facility there, recruiting an additional 100,000 employees. Well, these people saw the job advertisement posted by the Zhengzhou government in the city which showed the salary at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory is 1650 yuan (US$261) for basic salary, and the salary would be increased to 2400 – 3200 yuan (US$379-$506) after the appraisal. What’s more, workers do not need to pay additional money for dormitory and food. Foxconn incorporates the food and housing allowance into the basic salary. So, this attracted thousands of young job seekers to deliver their resumes to the Foxconn representatives.

Long lines were seen along the road outside the labour agency.

More males were seen among the applicants.

The job advertisement posted by the local Zhengzhou government.

According to Chinese media reports, most of the applicants have work experience, while some have just graduated from college. Interestingly, there were some applicants who worked for Foxconn in southern China’s Shenzhen province came here to change the location of work.

“Working in southern China is too far away from home. I could only go home once a year,” said Xiao Wang, a Foxconn employee who was working in one of the Foxconn’s plants at southern China.

Huge crowd of job seekers was seen outside the labor agency throughout the day.

As night falls, people were still waiting to apply for jobs at Foxconn.

The long lines at the labour agency may have surprised some, considering the harsh working conditions at Foxconn’s factories. No matter how poor the working conditions are, we can still see lots of Chinese willing to work at the hell factory to assemble the tech gadgets we’re using today. God bless them.

Source: CUTV

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  • pridon

    Never seen so many people lining up to be “slave” labor.  3200 Yuan = $506.  More than I made when I entered the Navy as an officer in 1966 $293/month.  Free room, but no free board.  That was a long time ago, but in 1966, the average income in China was probably about $25 a month, if that. 

    CBS news and NY Times haven’t a clue.  They probably never had a job involving real labor.  

    • http://ARMdevices.net/ Charbax

      They are making $261 per month, 80-100 hour work weeks, no week-end, no holidays, 10 hour per day minimum. Sure it’s pure luxury.

      • Annonymoss

        No. China gives guaranteed vacation days. Unlike another country.

    • Anonymous

      Thank you. this is the root of the problem. Only 10 yrs ago when I worked summers on the family farm, 80 hr week would be the norm and my pay was about $500/month. Working conditions were no air conditioning in any weather.  Since there were animals, no weekends or holidays either, Charbax.  Most people have no idea what real work is.  Sad really, as to many in China, our demands of a 40 hr work week seem as ridiculously lazy as the French 36 hr work week does to us.

    • Max

      Western medias know shit about life in China? $506 / month is what a Uni grad would get there. Those poor people can either work/get well paid to be “slaves” or starve and die at the countryside. CBS / NYT just brainwash people like the “beloved” leader Kim Jong II

    • Jay_bgy

      3200 Yuan a month is a good wage for factory work.  Considering they are not paying rent or food as well.  I lived in China for over 5 years and I know there are a lot of factories paying a lot less than that and still charging their workers rent and food.

  • Jimmy

    Is that $506usd per YEAR?

    • veggiedude

      Employees in Shenzhen are entitled to about $240 (£152) per month, the highest minimum wage in the country.

  • http://technbiz.blogspot.com paramendra

    FoxConn demonization. 

  • http://twitter.com/BongBong BongBong

    Let’s face it, Foxconn provides great pay for workers in China and their working conditions are certainly not worse than some of the factories I visited in Guangzhou.

  • Anonymous

    This is a prime example of unethical journalism.  The people want the jobs, even with prior Foxconn experience, and the final comment is that they are being treated harshly

    “No matter how poor the working conditions are, we can still see lots of
    Chinese willing to work at the hell factory to assemble the tech gadgets
    we’re using today”

    and 3200 a month is substantially more than many low end (liberal arts, non engineering, etc) Chinese university grads earn at the start.

    and YES, I know.  I have lived in Beijing for a long time now.      

  • Stephan

    Hi, good story. Where come from these photos?

  • Anonymous

    No wonder there is $25 trillion hoarded in the Bank of New York Mellon.
    We live in such a wonderful world. We will never be as rich as we were in 1968 ever again.

  • NotValidTLD

    A desperate worker in a country without proper human rights or labour protections will, of course, try to work for the least abusive employer. This doesn’t mean there’s anything acceptable about the conditions of Chinese workers, nor does it mean that Western countries should be allowed to exclude outsourced labourers from receiving a similar standard of rights as those onshore.

    The US was wasting its time to fight the USSR. It should have just set up contracts with the Party in the East to build cheaper products. Not much cheaper, of course – raw labour costs aren’t a huge proportion of the price of any mass consumer product and there’s no reason why we couldn’t adjust to a more local economy (we did fine for the past few hundred years, after all).

  • Emery Clark

    i lived in this city for 3 months. i recognize some of the places in that video. cool city, growing rapidly.

  • Me

    sloppy reporting… is that salary per week or month or year?

    • veggiedude

      Employees in Shenzhen are entitled to about $240 (£152) per month, the highest minimum wage in the country.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/TSOLF4ZCGPRJJLYRPHSINZC5OU Charles

    here’s the deal: in china your choice a crummy job or no job.