Taiwanese
Foxconn plans to migrate its production base for Acer's desktop PCs and monitors
from Shenzhen to Wuhan, China next year, according to a September 14, 2010
report by the Economic Daily News of Taiwan. It is reported that the production
base will be moved to the Wuhan Industrial Park of Foxconn, and the number of
workers to be recruited is expected to be approximately 100,000. The production
base in Wuhan is projected to be used for system assembly. Four companies have
already been established by Foxconn in Wuhan, and the companies' have started
the productions of digital cameras, PC shells, and PC motherboards. Production
value of the four units totaled 7.3 billion RMB (US$108.3 million, US$1=6.74
RMB) in 2009.
Situated
in central China, it is reported that by 2011, Wuhan will have production lines
for four global desktop PC manufacturers, HP, Dell, Acer, and Lenovo.