Recently, the incident in Foxconn in Zhengzhou has caused a lot of controversy, and the Internet is full of voices. To say that it may cause controversy, some things are just willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. As an OEM factory, are there still few things that have caused to render in recent years? The most common hats are still "sweatshops".
Even Foxconn itself admits that this is the place of blood and tears. If you want to come, you can come. Of course, we cannot sit idly by. Our country's trade unions have criticized Foxconn before.
If you look at Foxconn's path, you will know that capitalists have fully interpreted it in , Terry Gou, , and some things are more sensitive, so I won't mention them here.
Foxconn Zhengzhou Factory (Picture source: Enterprise official website)
(I)
For the job of OEM, I have never done this job, but I have seen a lot after working for many years. Two words - hard work, to put it bluntly, basically working in it determines that I am at the bottom of society for a long time. The bottom layer of
does not mean that you earn less money, but that your circle, resources, etc. are extremely compressed, not to mention that the money Foxconn gives in the factory is not the lowest.
Of course, working inside is also beneficial. Don’t worry about the world of spending outside. If you work hard, you will earn your money. Do more and get more, and do less and get less.
Economically, the underlying architecture must be available, which means that someone will do the job in the factory, either you or he will do it, and it will be the same everywhere.
What's more, after economic globalization , the division of labor is quite clear, which also gives companies like Foxconn the opportunity to rise. Now, this is a game that has been played by Foxconn.
Of course, he also accumulated capital through this, and with more and more work on Foxconn's play, most of the basic manufacturing industry is in Asia, and the United States wants to revive, so Trump was in power and temptation was 3 billion US dollars.
Foxconn agreed to build a factory in Wisconsin without hesitation, saying it would provide 30,000 jobs, and promised to invest a total of US$10 billion.
Results After five years, less than 600 people were recruited. Later, the United States forced it to recruit 1,500 people, but the investment was only about 700 million US dollars.
Of course, the unlucky one is the state government. Now it is carrying $300 million in bonds, which are borrowed for subsidies when Foxconn built the factory.
Chapter 0: The United States is quite unhappy with routines, and it is arguing with each other. It is said that both sides now have their own opinions. Foxconn believes that American factory workers need too much money and cannot recruit so many people; the United States says that Foxconn cheats subsidies.
Foxconn Wisconsin factory (Picture source: Enterprise official website)
(II)
Foxconn doesn’t want to make money? It’s impossible, but times have changed. In the past, when I started OEM factories, the profit of was quite high. For example, even an old mobile phone has a 10% or even 20% profit.
Foxconn's net profit in 2021 was only US$4.3 billion, and the net profit given to Apple was US$94.7 billion. In fact, the money Foxconn earned is only equivalent to a data cable.
Therefore, Foxconn is going in both directions, one aims at new energy vehicle , some are invested and technical support; the other continues to engage in OEM processing.
Among them, in addition to increasing investment in high-end manufacturing in the original business, the OEM is of course not high-end, but slightly technical content. These general factories are placed in the United States, Europe and Japan, and the low-end processing that depends on for survival, investing a lot of money in South Asia and Southeast Asia.
, something happened in Vietnam this year. Foxconn's subsidiary Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd. said that mainland companies are poaching. According to the chairman of the company, Vietnamese workers have gone to mainland companies and will not go to their places.
Although Foxconn did not name it, I went down to check the information. There were three mainland companies in total. The names were inconvenient, but one company is a competitor of Foxconn, and it also engages in O-processing and is not small in scale. It is currently the world's largest Airpods manufacturer.
Commercial competition is inevitable. Mainland companies have only become rich in the past two years, and the cost can be higher. However, for Foxconn, low-end processing must be supported before other branches become hard. In Foxconn's eyes, this is a core interest, but it is unwilling to make more profits.
Foxconn Taipei Building (Picture source: Enterprise official website)
(III)
Speaking of Foxconn and the mainland, there have been a lot mentioned in the article. Today I will briefly talk about my own ideas - Foxconn and the mainland need each other.
Guo Taiming said that Foxconn has solved the employment of millions of farmers for mainland China, but it does not mean that it is a charity. You should know that more than 70% of its income is contributed by the mainland.
To give a particularly obvious example, there are two points in recent years, Foxconn has made money. One is the transfer of the industrial chain to the central and western regions. Foxconn followed, and most of the new factories will be here after 15 years.
Another is the education mouth. We are now implementing the separation of talents. Parents should know that after graduating from junior high school, the proportional distribution of high school is a rigid requirement. In some places, it is 55, and in some places, it is 46. The ones who fail to get into
are basically technical schools, technical secondary schools, etc. Many of them enter factories after graduation, and Foxconn has absorbed a lot. In fact, they like to recruit such employees the most, and the cost is not high and easy to manage.
Let me mention that when it comes to the education provinces in our country, if you are divided by pressure, Henan will definitely be in the first echelon, so it is difficult every year for both the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, not because of the difficulty of the questions, but because of the large number of people.
For example, the college entrance examination is the reason why Henan has many people. Every year, hundreds of thousands of students will go to vocational schools, which is the best recruitment area for Foxconn.
in one sentence, just take your needs.
Therefore, there is only a few things inside and out, it’s that simple. However, in recent years, due to the United States’ troubles, Foxconn has no longer been simple. It has many actions of "smashing the pot" and if it doesn’t restrain itself, it must be cured.
