Terry Gou fought back, Foxconn announced a major decision, and hundreds of thousands of workers faced where to go?
Global rules have always been set by the United States, which not only wants to be the boss, but also wants China to constantly work for the United States for a pittance. Apple and Foxconn, for example, are prime examples: Apple grabs 85% of its profits from the global mobile phone market, but constantly presses its domestic foundries to pay only 6,000-7,000 euros even if they work 12 hours.
In the case of Qualcomm and Xiaomi, the profit margin of Xiaomi hardware is about 39%, but every time Qualcomm's technology is used, Qualcomm will pay 5% of the price of the mobile phone as a patent fee for each mobile phone sold, and mobile phone manufacturers can also get Snapdragon 8Gen3 for about 160 yuan, equivalent to 1150 yuan. In other words, the majority of profits belong to Qualcomm, and domestic mobile phone manufacturers are equivalent to all employees of Qualcomm, which is why Qualcomm often goes to domestic mobile phone manufacturers to launch platforms!
Huawei does not get involved in real estate, second, does not play financial games, and third, does not want to be a wage earner in the United States, Huawei wants to continue to develop high-tech and replace the United States in the technology industry chain, which is equivalent to directly changing the foundation of the United States, so the United States' suppression and blockade of Huawei is crazy!
After suppressing Huawei, Apple can't sit still, after all, its largest market and largest foundry are in Chinese mainland, once China carries out reciprocal countermeasures, Apple may not be able to protect itself. This is also the same for Apple and Foxconn in these years"Night Run"The reason is that at this time, Apple is interested in India's cheap labor and broad market space, so it constantly asks Foxconn to transfer production capacity to India.
At that time, for the sake of economic development, we gave Foxconn so many tax and land incentives, how could we easily let it go? So in October, an investigation into Foxconn was immediately launched, and the questions focused on two aspects: tax and land, and the focus was very clear.
The results came out quickly, because the Foxconn subsidiary had the problem of inflating taxes, so it was fined 20,000 yuan. "20,000 yuan", not to mention Foxconn, even for ordinary people, it is not painless, what do the relevant departments mean?
In fact, this is a game, a penalty of 20,000 euros, how many people and how much money are involved in the penalty announcement, and how to write it is a clear violation, which is obviously a warning, warning Foxconn: The investigation team is fully capable of verifying all violations, if Terry Gou is stubborn, how much tax will Foxconn evade next? How much land was illegally occupied? How much will I be fined? I think that Guo Taiming should have a clear understanding in his mind and should think twice!
Unexpectedly, this angered Guo Taiming, and instead of repenting, he launched a series of counterattacks against the results of the investigation! A few days after the results of the investigation came out, some Foxconn workers were suddenly given double the rest time and strictly implemented the eight-hour workday. As we all know, October is almost the busiest time of the year for Foxconn, and Foxconn is also increasing the number of workers in order to meet the production capacity of the iPhone. Moreover, the workers all know that if this kind of factory does not work overtime, it can only pay a basic salary, and the basic salary of 3,500 euros is difficult to maintain, so Foxconn took this measure as a countermeasure to the research team, forcing workers to resign to change production capacity.
At present, Foxconn's labor force in mainland India has dropped to less than 800,000 people, reaching 1.2 million at its peak, a direct decrease of nearly 400,000 people! And Gou is making additional investments in India, with 10 billion yuan and 12 billion yuan in November and December 2023, respectively. Just now, Foxconn once again announced that it has reached a 37.2 million yuan cooperation with the Indian conglomerate HCL to conduct semiconductor packaging and testing in India. Has Terry Gou forgotten that he spent a huge amount of money to cooperate with India's Vedanta company to produce chips in India, but was cut off by India? Well, the scar forgot the pain!
And Apple has always been"Add fuel to the fire", Apple has already given Foxconn a lay"Dead order", which should increase its share of production capacity in India to 20-25% by 2024. And Apple also asks for the iPhone 17"New product introduction"stage, which must be completed by the Indian factory in 2024. "New product introduction"It is an important part of the manufacturing industry, which tests the level of the foundry, so Apple's intention is very obvious: to encourage Foxconn to increase the manufacturing capacity of the Indian factory as quickly as possible, so as to completely get rid of the dependence on Chinese mainland!
What's even more ridiculous is that Foxconn has been cornered and still can't get rid of the fate of orders being carved up by other foundries. Judging from the distribution of orders for iPhone 15, Apple deliberately allocated Foxconn's orders to Luxshare and Pegatron, in order to give Foxconn a certain sense of crisis, the purpose is to choke Foxconn's neck and make Foxconn obedient, otherwise Apple can change you at any time!
If you don't see the coffin and don't shed tears, there is no need for us to have reservations about Foxconn, and we hope that the relevant departments will conduct a thorough investigation of Foxconn's illegal behavior and give severe sanctions! What do you think of what Foxconn has done?