It had been brought over from Shenzhen, China, inside a shipment of cleaning chemicals.
In November, group managing director Philip Brass said some operations were shifting from Shenzhen to cheaper Tianjin, near Beijing.
Mr. Wang, who moved up from Shenzhen in May, said the attitude of the guards at the plant is threatening.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
Originally from Shanxi, he said his motive for coming back from Shenzhen was in part to be closer to home, but said he would rather go back south.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
We crowded around each in turn, flanked by other Chinese tour groups as identifiable as rival armies: red pins for the U-Tour travel agency, orange windbreakers for the students from Shenzhen.
"I bought enough for a month's supply for my family, " said Alin Song, a trader from Shenzhen who said he made the trip to Hong Kong after reading the news about cadmium.
The investment is "part of Huawei's long term commitment to position its operations in India as a hub for the company's global operations, " said Ross Gan, a spokesman from the Shenzhen-based company.
For the past decade, the Chinese Super League has fielded 16 teams (Bejing Guoan is the 2009 champion) throughout China, from Dalian to Shenzhen.
Customs officials discovered people sending iPhones and iPads from Hong Kong to Shenzhen by placing the devices in tote bags and hooking them to a pulley that reached across the border .
To plug labor shortage gaps and train workers, Foxconn has brought in a number of workers from a plant in Shenzhen, in southern China, and another in the central city of Zhengzhou, it said.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
Its marbled headquarters in landscaped grounds is a world away from the chaos of nearby Shenzhen city.
One 20-year-old, surnamed Zhou, said he came up to the Foxconn plant from a Sony factory in Shenzhen, but he hoped to return to start a business in trading once he had saved enough money.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
Instead, most new capacity will come from the two new ports in Shenzhen, which are expanding quickly.
Last year the Hainan Island development staged the World Cup teams event for the first time, taking over from the Mission Hills complex at Shenzhen.
While the plant in question makes iPads, which are already in short supply, the thinking among Apple analysts is that any interruption in production will be brief, and in any case will quickly be replaced with additional output from another Hon Hai plant in Shenzhen.
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Ms. Zhou came to Shenzhen in 2005 after graduating from high school in rural Sichuan province.
From its high-tech headquarters in Shenzhen, Huawei has been able to use its low-cost advantage to expand outside China into a number of emerging markets over the years, while rapidly developing its technology.
Newbridge negotiated permission from municipal authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen, a progressive place by Chinese standards, to buy a stake in and take management control of a local bank.
In Shenzhen, the booming city across the border from Hong Kong, manufacturers receive electricity four days a week.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, prices have stabilized from August to September in expensive Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen for properties of all sizes.
When I first heard about Shenzhen-based Tencent during the early 2000s from ICQ managers, Tencent was working with China Mobile to allow PC users to send short messages from PCs to phones, and then via SMS (mobile Short Messaging Service) back again.
The Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges still form a world apart, separated from Hong Kong by strict capital controls.
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On March 7th Shenzhen, the boom-town across the border from Hong Kong, floated Shum Yip, a municipal property company.
On Wednesday, figures from data provider China Real Estate Information Corporation showed that in terms of floor area, housing sales in the final week of May rose 39.6% from a week earlier to 107, 200 square meters in Shenzhen, and 27.1% over the previous week to 185, 400 square meters in Shanghai.
Property transactions by floor space in some major cities, such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Chongqing rose in May from a year earlier, according to statistics from data provider China Real Estate Information Corp.
In the mid-1990s, Shenzhen's Konka Group, now a major conglomerate making everything from TVs to mobile phones, was the lone wolf venturing warily into strange and unknown territory.
If the court finds that Apple has infringed on the trademark rights of Shenzhen Proview, its wildly popular iPad tablet computers will be banned from sale on the Chinese mainland.
But employees said workers from other facilities, including Hon Hai's factories in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, recently were brought in to help with a large order.
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Profit at Hong Kong-listed company plunged and it suffered from bad publicity at home one of its cars caught on fire after a collision in Shenzhen, which is located just north of Hong Kong.
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