A Rare Look Inside Foxconn's iPhone Plant [Video]

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Posted May 26, 2012 at 3:29pm by Shalom Levytam

Check out this rare video that takes a look inside Foxconn's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, China. The video posted by iFeng and relayed by M.I.C. Gadget shows Foxconn CEO Terry Gou and a Chinese reporter touring the iPhone production line.

According to Mr. Li Jiaxiang, the Administrator of the Civil Aviation Authority of China (CAAC), 70 percent of the production for Apple's iPhone comes from Zhengzhou this year. The iPhones that are manufactured in Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant are shipped worldwide and according to Li, the Zhengzhou plant will be able to produce 200 tons of international cargo every day starting in June this year. One more thing, insiders are predicting Apple could potentially ship 120-150 million iPhone handsets this year.

Each production line in the Zhengzhou plant is 148-meters long, consists of 80 workers, and produces 10,000 iPhones every day.

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Beto - May 27, 2012 at 4:54am

Why is that nobody posts a factory of Google, Samsung, Nokia or HTC phones ever? Why is that when becomes to apple everything is wrong? I bet the other computer monsters are not as transparent as apple because of this "witch hunting crusade" against them. I'm not saying that apple is better of worse, I'm just saying that because apple is succeeding and leading the market, the others use anything to build up a bad reputation so the consumers come back to their brands regardless of their own dirty laundry.

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Russell - May 27, 2012 at 7:23am

Fixed link... In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad...http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html

byronchurch - May 27, 2012 at 4:35am

Cant we get some subtitles?

Russell - May 27, 2012 at 1:47am

What a ridiculous comment Tony wrote. Terry Gou would not be caught dead in a factory that produces fake iPhones. He has 10s of millions of dollars at stake.

mavrik101 - May 26, 2012 at 9:23pm

Your hard earned money leaves your country and pays Apple who in return fuels Chinas' economy.

Russell - May 27, 2012 at 1:38am

And Apple refuses to bring(invest) that money back to the US unless they get a significant tax break.

Bob - May 27, 2012 at 8:49am

If you'd read Jobs biography, Jobs made a public comment to the president in which he stated that he would love to see the US train more engineers to allow Apple to bring manufacturing back to the US......need I say more?

thagodfath3r25 - May 26, 2012 at 5:27pm

Is that the IPhone 5?!?