Un employé de Foxconn chinois femelle dort dans un dortoir dans un dortoir pour filles à l'usine Foxconn de Shenzhen Technology Group de l'ec à Shenzhen
A female Chinese Foxconn employee sleeps in a dorm room in a girls dormitory building at the Shenzhen plant of Foxconn Technology Group in Shenzhen city, south Chinas Guangdong province, 8 May 2010. The string of suicides at Foxconn highlight the urgent need for China to adjust its mode of economic growth. On Thursday (27 May 2010) morning, a Foxconn employee tried to kill himself by slitting his wrist at the company dormitory. He survived after receiving medical treatment. His suicide attempt was the 13th by an employee of the Shenzhen-based Foxconn this year. Ten succeeded by jumping out of buildings. With 800, 000 employees on the Chinese mainland, the Taiwan-owned companys exports totaled US$55.6 billion in 2008, accounting for 3.9 percent of the mainlands total exports. Foxconn makes computers, game consoles and mobile phones for companies including Apple, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, and Sony. Foxconn epitomizes Chinas traditional export-driven development pattern: investment and cheap labor combining to produce low value-added products. Processing trade accounts for 50 percent of Chinas total trade volume, and it contributes much to the nations trade surplus. But it is at the low end of the world production chain.
