With its roots in science and technology, professional manufacturing and forward-looking decision-making, Foxconn has grown rapidly since its founding in Taiwan in 1974, especially since the establishment of its factory in Shenzhen in 1988, and is the world's largest specialized manufacturer in the electronics industry with more than 900,000 employees and the world's top IT customer base. Foxconn has topped the list of the top 200 mainland exporters for eight consecutive years; in 2010, it ranked 112th on the Fortune Global 500 list.
Deep Plowing in China and Perfecting Layout Foxconn continues to improve its R&D, design, and engineering service capabilities, and has gradually built up an internationalized map centered on mainland China and extending its development to all over the world.
In the Pearl River Delta region, Foxconn has built technology parks in Shenzhen, Foshan, Zhongshan, and Dongguan, etc. Three of its enterprises in Shenzhen Longhua Science Park have been among the top 10 enterprises in Shenzhen in terms of revenue and tax payment for consecutive years, and have contributed more than 10 billion yuan in tax revenue to Shenzhen every year. The park is being transformed into a new product development and design center, key manufacturing technology research and development center, new materials and new energy research and development center, manufacturing equipment and mold technology research and development center, product display/trading/logistics distribution center, and new product volume test base, and strive to become the main thrust of the construction of Shenzhen, "national innovative city".
In the Yangtze River Delta region, the company has laid out its operations in Kunshan, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Huaian, Jiashan, and Changshu, forming an industry chain and supply chain aggregation system for precision connectors, wireless communication components, netcom equipment and components, semiconductor equipment, and software technology development, and boosting the optimization and upgrading of the regional industrial structure.
In the Bohai Rim region, Yantai, Beijing, Langfang, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, Yingkou, Shenyang, etc., with wireless communications, consumer electronics, computer components, precision machine tools, automation equipment, environmental technology, nanotechnology, etc., as the backbone industries, to feed the regional economic development of science and technology and manufacturing kinetic energy.
In the central and western regions, investment in Taiyuan, Jincheng, Wuhan, Nanning, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu, focusing on the development of precision molds, magnesium-aluminum alloys, automotive parts and components, and optical, mechanical and electrical modules, to actively cooperate with the "Rise of Central China" and "Western Development" national development strategies. "
Precision molds, magnesium-aluminum alloys, automotive parts and components, optoelectronic modules and other products.
Focus on technology to win the first opportunity While continuing to enhance the existing technological advantages of precision molds, key components, electromechanical integration modules and other products, Foxconn actively promotes cross-field technological integration in nanotechnology, precision optics, environmental protection, lighting, flat panel displays, automation, thermal acoustic magnetics, industrial measurement, semiconductor equipment and other fields have achieved fruitful results.
The Foxconn-Tsinghua Nano Technology Research Center has continued to achieve pioneering results in the field of controlled growth and application of carbon nanotubes. The Group's self-developed industrial robot "FOXBOT" has gained a late-stage advantage in technology and manufacturing in the global industry.
Foxconn's South China and East China testing centers are part of the ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), which is a world leader in R&D validation, product testing, simulation experiments, and material experiments.
Foxconn actively builds "energy-saving, emission reduction, greening and recycling" green enterprises, enforces international environmental protection standards such as RoHS/WEEE, and independently researches and develops green products such as LED energy-saving lamps, energy-saving aluminum, and intelligent full-heat exchangers, to promote the continuous improvement of the enterprise's production conditions, living environment, and quality of society and people's livelihood.
Foxconn has established a professional R&D network across Asia, the United States, and Europe, and has set up a sound innovation mechanism and intellectual property management platform. In 2009, Foxconn realized 13,400 patent applications, of which more than 80% were invention patents, and was ranked among the top three in the mainland region in terms of the total number of patent applications and the number of invention patents filed for five consecutive years. It has become a pioneer of intellectual property rights for Chinese enterprises in the global science and technology industry.
Giving back to society and caring for employees Foxconn has long been committed to charitable and public welfare undertakings, and in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, it has sent more than 72 million yuan to the affected areas. Over the years, Foxconn has donated more than one billion yuan, benefiting more than 30 provinces and municipalities across the country. Through the "Employment Project for the Disabled", the Group has actively explored ways to solve the social problems of helping the disabled, and through extensive school-enterprise cooperation, it has created hundreds of thousands of employment opportunities.
People-oriented, profit-sharing employees. The Group has signed labor contracts with all employees on terms better than those of the Labor Contract Law, and has established an all-round, multi-level employee protection system by both purchasing statutory insurance for all employees and setting up five lines of protection for employees. Through the allocation of housing, stock allocation and other measures to incentivize outstanding employees, to create a "well-being, stability, development" of a harmonious atmosphere.
Foxconn cooperates with Tsinghua University, Peking University, National Taiwan University and other famous academic and research institutions to run schools, and co-organizes the "enterprise school" with the local government to set up a different level of training system to provide all employees who are willing to learn, willing to learn to provide opportunities and conditions for continuing education and lifelong learning, and create a stage and space to pass on their experiences to the growth of the young talent group, The company has established a training system at different levels to provide all employees who are willing to learn with opportunities and conditions for continuing education and lifelong learning.
Foxconn will continue to be a leader in the industry. Foxconn will, as always, inherit the culture of love, fulfill its social responsibility, cultivate scientific and technological talents, innovate the development mode, challenge the higher goals of technological innovation and industrial transformation, and create the everlasting greatness of a "long-term, stable, developing, technological, and international" first-class company!