The plant, located in Taiyuan in China's Shanxi province, employs 79, 000 workers, Mr. Woo said.
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Parts of Shanghai, Taiyuan and Tianjin have dropped by more than 6 feet for the same reason.
Hon Hai's facility in Taiyuan alone employs roughly the same amount of workers that General Motors Co.
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"Some of those people are not happy because they don't want to stay at Taiyuan, " the female worker said.
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Under their stewardship, Taiyuan has only been able to eke out sales of about 3, 000 trucks annually over the past two years.
Calls to the Taiyuan police were not immediately answered, while an official at the plant declined to comment when reached by telephone.
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The 79, 000 Taiyuan workers amount to only a small portion of the roughly one million workers at Hon Hai's more than 20 plants across China.
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The Taiyuan factory, which employs 79, 000 people, resumed production Wednesday after shutting down temporarily due to the riot, Foxconn said in a statement this week.
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This is only one incident (though there has been at least one other reported at Taiyuan and one at Chengdu), but Apple-watchers certainly have their antennae up for any signs of a larger pattern.
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It was unclear what sparked the Taiyuan dispute.
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Several weeks ago, the Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) was in the news when it announced that its affiliate, Jiangling Motors Corporation, Ltd. (JMC), has agreed to acquire 100 percent of Taiyuan Changan Heavy Truck Company (Taiyuan).
It could be, but the Taiyuan factory is large and makes many things, both electronic and automotive, so what we know now is that these two things are adjacent to eachother, not that there is any causal connection.
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Like a number of employees, Mr. Wang said he was frustrated because he has already spent five months in Taiyuan, and still has no certainty about when he can return to the boom town of Shenzhen, which he prefers to the more provincial, industrial city of Taiyuan.
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