According to comprehensive foreign media reports, kunshan city, jiangsu province is one of the main electronics manufacturing center in China, here is speeding up the electronics industry strategic transformation, but the process is likely to millions of people out of work. Apple foundry enterprises foxconn recently laid off 60000 workers in kunshan factory, using robots to replace them, to reduce labor costs.

Kunshan city is a large number of attract Taiwanese investment, and change the growth strategy from more than one year ago, replace workers with robots and encourage entrepreneurship to accelerate growth. 35, including foxconn, Taiwanese investment of $610 million last year alone used in artificial intelligence research and development. Kunshan city government said, with the introduction of robot, foxconn will kunshan factory workers number from 110000 to 50000, succeeded in reducing Labour costs. More companies may follow their footsteps.

Foxconn's 60000 workers replaced by robot

Kunshan city government according to the survey, as many as 600 companies had planned to introduce machines in the near future. Kunshan has a total of 4800 Taiwanese companies, more than 60% of GDP. If automation plan goes well, may be forced 2.5 million people out of work.

Each year in kunshan manufacturing development period of the most powerful, can produce 120 million laptop. But with reduced demand, current production only 51 million units. Smartphone manufacturing is tasted, however, to some extent fill in this part, the output is about 20 million m last year.