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Xiaomi is a legend. The company had already sold 1.8 million units in the past 9 months and they still sees surge in demand. In the following, we are going to take you a tour into Xiaomi’s production chain to see how they keep up with massive orders.
Last week, around 20 Foxconn workers climbed to the rooftop of a building located inside Shenzhen plant for 26 hours to protest a planned move. The employees were protesting the company’s decision to relocate factories from Shenzhen to Huizhou, a city further north in Guangdong province, and urged the company to arrange employment for them in Shenzhen or to lay them off. Foxconn has refused to terminate the workers and said it will arrange jobs for them at other factories in the area or will hold further talks with those who insist on seeing their contracts terminated …
Last weekend, Shenzhen police has successfully cracked down a Shanzhai factory that produced knock-off cell phones. Two production lines had been smashed and closed down, more than 3,000 shell casing and components to make fake Apple, HTC, Nokia and Samsung phone had been seized on the spot. Authorities have detained 10 suspects in connection with the factory. The small factory has only about 35 workers, which doesn’t consider to be a large scale production. It seems major mobile phone companies, especially Apple, are putting more efforts to track down those evil counterfeiters, by working with local police to raid their manufacturing facilities. Click in for more pictures on the story.
Many years ago, Proview was the world’s fourth-largest flat-panel monitor manufacturer, and the company was making old-skool CRT and LCD monitors mostly for sale in developing markets. Today, Proview is on the verge of bankruptcy and needs a big settlement from Apple. Looking at the following pictures of Proview’s abandoned plant in Shenzhen Yantian district, you will know why Proview is retaliating against Apple in full force.
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 …
Who would have thought Christmas lights could be recycled into slippers? Well, a factory in China has figured out how to do that with its own innovated technologies to capitalize and find new life in our seasonal decorations. Watch the video after the break to see how the factory recycles old, unwanted Christmas tree lights that Americans throw away every year.
Before the year of 2011 ends, another Chinese plant explodes and according to Reuters, the explosion had injured 61 workers, and caused “some” damage to the plant’s machinery for producing iPad 2 back panels.
As 2011 grows closer to conclusion, Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, has big plans for 2012. The company aims to build more plants in inland regions to reduce labor costs, and most interestingly, 300,000 robots will be added to the assembly line but will not lay-off any workers according to comments made by founder and chairman Terry Gou.
Nokia has begun shipping its N9 smartphone model to Chinese users, which is based on the MeeGo open platform. The company has posted a few photos on their China blog, showing their Chinese workers examining the N9 and shipping out the phones. We can see people in the factories look both real and happy.
In prior, there was report about HTC Chairwoman said the company will launch a low-cost smartphone which would price at under $100 USD in an effort to expand its market share. However, it had immediately rubbed off by the HTC Chief Financial Officer during a conference call with all investors.
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