Source: Yiguo Finance

One day in 1993, Guo Taiming stood on a hill in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, stretched his fingers, and said to the local government officials accompanied by him:

I want the ground you can see before!

The land in front of me was deserted and there were more than 1,000 acres. At that time, Guo Taiming was just an ordinary Taiwanese businessman who made computer accessories. Can you eat such a large wasteland?But Guo Taiming followed closely: I was afraid of these land, not enough for Foxconn development.

Three years later, Longhua Industrial Zone was officially completed on this wasteland. This is the Foxconn Industrial Park, Shenzhen, which has more than 300,000 employees today.In the past few years, Guo Taiming has begun to expand its inland as its home base camp.Relying on working as a foundry for large -scale enterprises, Guo Taiming established a commercial empire with a value of hundreds of billions of output.

According to statistics, every 7 Apple mobile phones in the world come from Foxconn production.However, relying on the mainland to make money for nearly 30 years, Guo Taiming, who has made a lot of money, repeatedly conveyed signals to the outside world in 2020 to gradually withdraw from the Chinese market.

Although now, these factories in the mainland are still operating normally, but Guo Taiming still ran to Southeast Asia behind Apple's ass with practical actions.In June 2020, for special reasons, Apple required the production processor to transfer the production capacity to the market outside China. If it is not transferred, it will be regarded as an order for the other party to give up Apple.

As an important partner of Apple's production, Foxconn chose to continue to hold his thigh under the pressure of Apple.

In the same month, Foxconn Chairman Liu Yangwei bluntly stated at the shareholders' meeting that the investment focus will be placed in India in the future.

Immediately after, Foxconn smashed $ 1 billion in a small factory in Tamilnad, India.Since last year, this factory has continued to expand. With the increase in investment, Foxconn's original business in China has also traded quietly.

The relevant Indian departments have a good opportunity to come to such a good opportunity, which is so beautiful that it directly gives the benefits of 20%of tariffs.One side is affectionate, and one party intentionally, it should have looked like the ending.

However, in just a few months, I just finished my money in India. Before I could make money, Foxconn encountered another good!

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In fact, the Indian factory was established a few years ago, and it was different from the mainland in the past 20 years. In fact, since the construction of a factory in India, this road has been quite bumpy.

As the world's second population country, India is second only to China, but India's labor force is lower than that in China.In recent years, due to the increase in domestic labor costs, focusing on India, which is cheaper in labor, it sounds like a good choice.

However, both Apple or Guo Taiming ignored the focus: Indians and the Chinese are very different.

When he first arrived in India, Foxconn, which implemented military management in China, suffered the first soil and water dissatisfaction.A few years ago, the Chinese people in the Foxconn factory were limited to even harsh time to go to the toilet, and after India, they knew that the Indians did not accept overtime at all, let alone overtime, and not strike demonstrations.

In addition to the diligence of people, Indians are generally low in education, and there are many illiterates.Many workers in China are even college students. When performing operations, the efficiency of Indian workers is incomparable with China. It is basically impossible to want these workers to obey discipline and work hard work.According to industry insiders, 100 workers trained in India can finally have three horses and tigers, even if they are good.

In addition, the Indian logistics industry is not developed, and the industrial foundation is weak. Foxconn, which has become accustomed to the Chinese market, not only does not make money in India, but in the end, it has to rely on the Chinese market to barely maintain it.

However, because Apple is optimistic about the Indian market, Guo Taiming did not give up here, so he kept supporting it, and even wanted to bring the factory through strong investment.Until March of this year, there were also reports that if India and Vietnam's investment was successful, Foxconn would withdraw from the mainland in an all -round way. At that time, more than 800,000 employees would be fired.

Although Foxconn officially launched a rumor, saying that the focus of transferring the industry and abandoning 800,000 employees were purely nonsense.But even so, Foxconn's question of evacuating China is still one after another.

But just a month later, this question disappeared quickly, and replaced it:

Guo Taiming's expansion was blocked and was back?

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The turning point of the matter was April 2021.

In early April, the Indian epidemic exploded twice. The speed was fast and the epidemic was serious.In order to avoid the epidemic, many Chinese companies in India have chosen to stop work and sent employees to return to China. Only a few people left in the factory area to stay on duty.However, Foxconn chose to go up and started as usual.Tamilnadbon, where the factory is located, is one of the worst areas of India's epidemic. On May 10, Tamil Nadbon announced the formal comprehensive city closure.Under the city, the heart of making money is not worth the raging of the virus.

Soon, there were workers infected in the Foxconn plant in India. On May 12, some media reported that the number of infected people in this factory had surpassed 100.In this case, I am afraid that the factory will usher in a more serious crisis. Foxconn has to temporarily close the factory area and implement a ban order. Only the factory personnel are allowed to leave, but no one is allowed to enter from the outside.

After closing the factory, the production capacity of the Indian plant has fallen sharply, and the decline has exceeded 50%compared with usual. Until today, the Indian epidemic has recovered in the future. I am afraid that Foxconn wants to usher in a formal resumption, and it is not possible to achieve in a short period of time.Looking back at Foxconn just the time when Foxconn just announced the focus of investment in India, many people in the industry also analyzed that Foxconn and Apple's transfer to India may bring new opportunities. Now it seems that this magnificent blueprint has become a laughing stock.But no matter how face -to -face, the money should still be made. Originally India could not work, and Vietnam, but the recent outbreak of Vietnam was not good. Foxconn's factory in Vietnam was closed one after another.Where can Foxconn go?

On May 7, Zhengzhou Foxconn issued a new rule saying that the new employee of the Zhengzhou factory will receive a prize of 7,500 yuan if he works for 90 days and does not have less than 55 days.EssenceThis action was interpreted by the outside world as attracting labor and rapid promotion of production. The purpose was to return to the base camp again, that is, the majority of mainland markets in China.

Once, Guo Taiming said that the Chinese market could not be separated from Guo Taiming.Today's transit has moved, I don't know who cannot be separated.After all, after a lap in the United States and Southeast Asia, the mainland market is no longer a must -have.

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Guo Taiming has been in a business for 47 years. From a small plastic processing manufacturer to the richest man in Taiwan, which is now worth $ billions of dollars, his work hardship process is quite exciting.I do n’t know if it is too inflated or too confident in thighs. Foxconn, which was originally very important in the Chinese market, created the black history again and again. With the reputation falling, Foxconn had already stepped off the altar.

Guo Taiming was born in 1950. His father, Guo Lingrui, was a small policeman. When Guo Taiming was young, his family was poor. He read the book in Maritime Sciences by half -time reading and then served in military service.When he returned from his job, Guo Taiming, 21, entered a pharmaceutical factory in Taipei as a salesperson. It was here that he met a person who changed his life. She was Guo Taiming's wife Lin Shuru.

Although this Lin Shuru is also working in a pharmaceutical factory, his identity is not simple. He is not only a high student at the Taipei Medical Hospital, but also the pearl of the palm of the Giant Fulin Baixin in Hong Kong.Such a gap made Guo Taiming ashamed. At that time, even his parents came out to oppose it, saying that he did not dare to climb the Lin family.But helplessly this Lin Shuru also looked at Guo Taiming. In 1975, Lin Shuru and Guo Taiming married the Fengzi, and cut off the relationship with the Lin family.Such a marriage in exchange for Guo Taiming's struggle. He couldn't do any famous hall to work. Guo Taiming and his family borrowed 200,000 and founded Hon Hai Plastic.But the first bucket of gold did not make money, Hon Hai Plastic lost hundreds of thousands of principals. Seeing that Guo Taiming had no choice, Lin Shuru had to open his mouth with his old father and borrowed 700,000 wives to Guo Taiming.The road was finally on track.

In the first order, Guo Taiming made the proxy of the TV knob. After a few years, with the advanced technology and equipment, Guo Taiming gradually received the order of electronic parts from Europe and the United States and other countries.

In 1985, Guo Taiming received a more complicated computer industry order. In order to enter the international market, Guo Taiming set up an English name Foxconn for his company, and Foxconn came from this.Three years later, Foxconn has developed into a large enterprise with more than 1,000 people and a revenue of 100 billion yuan. This year, Guo Taiming was 38 years old. He made a major decision: move the entire production base to the mainland.

In the situation at the time, it was a more adventurous decision. After all, the mainland market was in the ascendant and no one knew what it developed.But I have to say that Guo Taiming has taken the right step. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Chinese economy began to take off. Guo Taiming's investment also received discounts and support from the mainland. After taking root in Shenzhen, Guo Taiming and Foxconn, with his times, also with the times of the times.Development has entered the fast track.

In 2000, another decision of Guo Taiming changed the direction of Foxconn again.

This year, mobile phone communication began to popularize. Guo Taiming officially entered the field of mobile phone foundry from computer foundry. With excellent quality, he won many international orders in the world, and soon monopolized the global mobile phone industry.It was this step that attracted Jobs.One day, after watching Foxconn's mobile phone for Foxconn to help Motorola's foundry, he secretly met Guo Taiming and iPhone's production task, which was handed over to Foxconn.

After that, Apple's market soared, and Foxconn also became a well -deserved overlord in the manufacturing industry, and wealth and reputation followed.For a long time, Foxconn's success is inseparable from Guo Taiming's militaryization and refined management. Under high pressure, high efficiency and high production.However, the advantages and disadvantages are parallel. Taking people as human -shaped machines, the consequences are not only unexpected by Guo Taiming, but also something he cannot bear.

In 2010, it was the darkest day in Foxconn's history. From the first jumping incident, there was a 13 -game jump in Foxconn in just nine months.

Public opinion was uproar, and Foxconn's stock price plummeted.In fact, when the fifth incident, Guo Taiming was a little panicked. He not only announced that all the members were raising their salaries, but also invited various media entities to interview them. They wanted to correct themselves and strive to prove that these were all cases.

After that, Guo Taiming specially invited 30 monks from Wutai Mountain, Shanxi.

As a result, within a few days, one employee chose to jump down from the top of the building after another. In the end, Guo Taiming had to simply put all outside the dormitory building on the iron wire mesh.There is no jumping off the building, but Foxconn has also carried the infamous name of the hard -sweat factory.

In addition to the N company jump, Foxconn has recruited many times, and Guo Taiming has recruited himself.For example, he has publicly preached his theory of urine yellow, that is, if your urine does not change yellow, it proves that your work is not working hard.

Originally, Foxconn had favored the favorability because of squeezing workers. Guo Taiming had assisted himself, so that Foxconn has completely fallen into the high altar in the hearts of the Chinese public in recent years.He is going to leave, and the Chinese are not a pity, and even netizens clapped their hands fast.

Now that the Indian market is blocked, he is going to come back, but the mainland market at this time is no longer 20 years ago.When Foxconn put his vision overseas, domestic foundries have already quietly risen.

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Foxconn has always tied themselves and Apple together. Now, Apple has evacuated 8 production lines in China, and Foxconn has to follow the position.

But what about the actual situation?China's demand for Apple is not so obvious.In recent years, domestic mobile phones have risen rapidly. Chinese people are not indispensable, so even if Apple has withdrawn the production line, our lives not only are not affected, but have further promoted the development of domestic enterprises.

For example, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. These companies also need foundries. Now these companies have handed their orders to BYD, which quickly promoted the rise of BYD.Foxconn is back again, and can only cooperate with Apple. It can't get the orders of these large enterprises, let alone Foxconn also actively abandon Huawei and break the confession to Huawei.

Pressing Bao on Apple, what can Foxconn restore production capacity quickly?Apple sales are good. If Apple's sales decline, Foxconn's dilemma is even more prominent.

The recovery of India and Vietnamese markets is far away, but for Foxconn today, I am afraid that it can only be dark.Reference materials: Global Times: Foxconn in the Indian factory, miserable

Manufacturing industry: pattern and vision: 71 -year -old Guo Taiming has gone down the altar

Planet Business Review: It's easy to go downhill