Chinese Government Steps In to Help Apple

A week after the mass departure of workers, the Chinese government sprang into action.

In Zhoukou, a city in eastern Henan, a township government met to discuss Foxconn’s recruitment challenges, and officials gave out quotas for workers to be recruited, according to Shanghai Securities Journal, a state newspaper. Reached by phone by The Times, a Zhoukou official acknowledged the city had been helping Foxconn with recruitment but declined to elaborate.

Military veterans have also been brought in.

“It’s been difficult for companies to resume work and production,” Zhang Yongchao, the office manager of the veteran affairs bureau of Changge, a city an hour from the Foxconn plant, told The Times. As the pandemic, along with China’s harsh measures to contain it, have led to labor shortfalls at Foxconn and other businesses, it has created opportunity for veterans, who have long had difficulty finding work, he said.

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