This is a joke widely circulated on the Internet. Of course, this is just a joke. It can't be true, but it reflects the great influence of Foxconn in Chinese mainland.
Since 1988 Foxconn bought land and set up a factory in Shenzhen, this enterprise located in Baoan, Shenzhen, had 450,000 employees at its peak, almost equivalent to the total population of a medium-sized city.
In the development of the following years, with the help of the east wind of reform and opening up, Guo Taiming got on the welfare train in the era of low labor cost and large population base in Chinese mainland, and set up more than 30 science and technology industrial parks from the Pearl River Delta to the Bohai Rim to the Yangtze River Delta, and then from the southwest to the central south to the northeast, with at least 820,000 employees. If you count all Foxconn employees, the total number of Foxconn employees is as high as one million.
Especially with the efforts of more than 400,000 employees, Foxconn's exports in 2065,438+00 reached US$ 48 billion, a record increase of 50% year-on-year, and it won the title of "Export Champion" in Chinese mainland for 65,438+065,438+0 years in a row.
Foxconn has created a large number of jobs for the mainland and eased the pressure of employment, but it has also greatly promoted economic development and brought huge fiscal revenue to the country.
Statistics released by the tax authorities show that Hongfujin, as the main body of Foxconn, paid more than 500 million yuan in taxes in 2009, and Foxconn contributed several billion yuan in taxes every year. 202 1, Foxconn paid more than10 billion yuan.
It is not an exaggeration to say that such a "Big Mac" enterprise is one of the leading enterprises in China's economic growth.
In fact, Foxconn has such a huge volume in Chinese mainland, amazing employment absorption capacity and huge tax payment capacity, and there are more than 200 subsidiaries and agencies in Asia, America and Europe. If you add all these enterprises together, the volume is even more amazing.
It is precisely because of Foxconn's outstanding contribution to the mainland's economy, employment and tax payment over the years that Guo Taiming once said in a TV program on 20 19 that so many factories in the mainland have created so many jobs and fed so many people in the mainland.
If Foxconn has made contributions in various aspects of the mainland for decades, it is not entirely unreasonable for Guo Taiming to say so. After all, Foxconn made great contributions to the economy, employment and taxation of the mainland in the early days of reform and opening up, and even later.
While acknowledging Foxconn's contribution to the mainland in the past few decades, we should also clearly see that Foxconn, as a labor-intensive enterprise, will naturally take measures to reduce costs and labor costs, so as to obtain maximum corporate benefits with minimum losses.
But in recent years, with the rapid development of the mainland, various costs are also increasing, and labor costs are also rising. Even many domestic enterprises have experienced a "labor shortage".
Although Foxconn has no problems such as "labor shortage" for the time being, rising costs and human resources have made Guo Taiming begin to consider building factories overseas and turning to foreign countries. After all, as a processing enterprise, the rising cost is a great challenge to itself.
On the other hand, Guo Taiming's consideration includes the "signal" from the biggest "old club" Apple.
As we all know, Foxconn is Apple's largest foundry in the world, and only Apple has 60% employees working for it.
According to Apple's latest performance, in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 (202 1, 10-12), Apple's revenue was123.9 billion US dollars, equivalent to nearly 780 billion yuan, and its net profit reached 34.6 billion US dollars, equivalent to 220 billion yuan. One quarter's profit will catch up with ICBC's annual profit.
Among them, a large part of Apple's revenue and profit comes from iPhone, especially iPhone 13, which has achieved great success in China market, and Foxconn's efforts are inseparable from its frequent ranking at the top of the sales list.
According to public information, the annual revenue of Hon Hai Precision, Foxconn's parent company, reached a record high in 20021year, exceeding 2 10 billion US dollars (about10.35 trillion RMB). The net profit in the first three quarters increased by 70% year-on-year, reaching 21kloc-0 billion RMB, while in Sturm,
Therefore, under the circumstances that the global economy is facing tremendous downward pressure, Foxconn can still stand out from the labor-intensive industries and achieve a substantial increase in corporate profits. A large part of the credit comes from the "cake" shared by Apple.
It is precisely because of the close cooperation between Foxconn and Apple that Apple has a great voice in Foxconn.
Based on this special interest chain, facing the rising domestic cost pressure and the constant friction between China and the United States since 20 18, Apple began to intentionally expand its supply chain to overseas regions. In order to alleviate its own pressure and cater to Apple's strategic needs, Foxconn will gradually set up factories in overseas regions such as Southeast Asia and India.
To Guo Taiming's surprise, people think that Foxconn can double its profits with its low labor costs and huge population base in Southeast Asia and India. Unexpectedly, after Foxconn set up factories in Southeast Asia and India, it found that people in these places were lazy and their skills and quality were poor. Coupled with the impact of a wave of epidemics, Guo Taiming's process of setting up factories overseas was full of twists and turns.
At this time, Foxconn realized that despite the rising cost in Chinese mainland, overseas countries and regions do not have the conditions of high-quality workers, positive working attitude and orderly epidemic prevention and control. Therefore, after Foxconn came back from overseas, it set its sights on the mainland, and even its foundry in Zhengzhou offered generous food and accommodation conditions, and attracted skilled workers with a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan.
On the other hand, Foxconn's misjudgment lies in that in addition to the mainland's high-quality skilled technicians, perfect industrial system and hard-working workers, they also found that the strength of other domestic industrial enterprises should not be underestimated, and even some enterprises such as OPPO directly jumped out of the OEM mode.
In fact, since the reform and opening up, there have been many OEM enterprises in China, especially mobile phone assembly plants. At first, these enterprises copied some foreign brands of machines. Later, with the progress of assembly technology and the breakthrough of related manufacturing industries, these enterprises basically have the ability to take care of themselves.
For example, BYD Electronics and Luxshare, two new generation processing giants, are among the best. Even Huawei, Glory and Xiaomi are made by BYD and other companies.
In addition to BYD and Li Xun, even the two mobile phone giants, OPPO and VIVO, have their own production plants. In the face of mobile phone OEM, the two companies can truly realize the design, R&D and manufacturing through one train.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the reason why the domestic mobile phone company OPPO focuses on OPPO is because OPPO directly omits the OEM link. After skipping the foundry, you will produce mobile phones directly from your own factory. This not only ensures the quality of mobile phones, but also has strict quality control, and the quality of the models produced is absolutely guaranteed.
Therefore, from the perspective of the mobile phone "True Me GT Neo3" produced by OPPO, the foundry may be an important link in the manufacturing of mobile phones, but it is not necessary. With China's overall comprehensive strength, complete industrial system, high-quality talents and increasingly mature technology, it is reasonable for Foxconn to set up factories overseas, and only then did Guo Taiming realize how much loss was caused by a momentary miscalculation.
Now, Foxconn has also increased its efforts in the mainland market, hoping to regain its position as the "leading brother" in a relatively short period of time. Does Guo Taiming regret his decision now? However, this competitive situation has become more and more fierce with its short-term departure and return. More enterprises are joining this wonderful competition drama. In the future, we will wait and see who will lead!
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