The company, also known as Foxconn, grappled with a spate of employee suicides at a facility in Shenzhen, China, in 2010 and an explosion that killed four workers and injured 18 at plant in Chengdu, China, last year.
But every year, a lucky few get the chance to feed, bathe and exercise the endangered animals at the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, China.
Thursday morning, the New York Times published the results of a lengthy investigation into the manufacturing practices of Apple suppliers, Chengdu, China-based Foxconn and Wintek.
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So why is this Chinese-American, whose extraordinary tale we told a year ago, still stuck in Chengdu, China, barred from returning home to his wife and daughter in southern California?
It is somehow fitting that the only Woods project that the architect lived to see realized was the 2011 "Light Pavilion" a complex hole, really within the Steven Holl-designed Raffles City Center in Chengdu, China.
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So why is this Chinese-American, whose extraordinary tale we told a year ago ( Nov. 14, 2005), still stuck in Chengdu, China, barred from returning home to his wife and daughter in southern California?
But in June, about 100 workers went on a rampage at a Chengdu plant in southwestern China.
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His arrival in Chengdu, the financial and trade center for southwest China, was front-page news in the Chengdu Economic Daily.
Recently, I visited a second tier city in Western China, called Chengdu, with about 5 million population.
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Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.
They and a number of other luxury companies have opened up new stores with breakneck speed in places like Chengdu, a city in southwestern China, and Hangzhou, a city near Shanghai.
These include events in Guangzhou and Chengdu, as well as the main China auto show that is held every year, alternating between Beijing and Shanghai.
The increased use of robots as well as moving manufacturing from East Coast cities to the interior of China, such as to Chengdu, is an attempt to reduce costs.
However the unveiling of the Chengdu J-20 is believed to bring China into the restricted ranks of those countries able to build a fifth-generation radar-evading or "stealth" fighter.
Born in Chengdu in 1909 to a missionary family, Service loved China and believed that he not only knew what was best for it but that he could help bring this about.
The trip begins with four days in China, Beijing, and the southwestern city of Chengdu.
Chengdu's award-winning rehabilitation has drawn delegations from China's other major cities to study its methods and many of its planners have taken their expertise to other towns and districts in the region.
Sericulture and silk craftsmanship of China, based in Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces near Shanghai and Chengdu in Sichuan Province, have an ancient history.
In Chengdu, the Vice President will give a speech on U.S.-China relations at Sichuan University.
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