The Taiwanese company, Foxconn Technology Group, plans to employ 400,000 workers in China next year after their income leaped 50 percent in the first half of the year.

Furthermore, they will develop factories closer to the homes of employees after an increase at the maker of iPhones, Dell and Apple computers. According to a special assistant to the chief executive officer, Louis Woo, Foxconn will develop to local provinces of Sichuan and Henan because that is what the new batch of workers wants.

In addition, the plan of Foxconn to employ is comparable to more than thrice the shared workforces of Apple and Microsoft, indications a growing viewpoint for electronics demand as the economy recovers globally.

On the other hand, the company is changing away from the southern coastal city, Shenzhen that is draw for migrant workers, after the suicides of no less than 12 workers this year triggered it to establish safety nets to avoid employees heading to their deaths.

According to Vincent Chen, who rates the Foxconn that was based in Taipei that they will have to employ workers for their notebook business, even as Apple also has very hostile target for their iPhones. The intention may build problems in management as they have workers more reach out. He also said it is easier to handle workers when they are all in the same workplace.

Woo said that around the half of 900,000 workers of the company are in Shenzhen, and that scale will fall to one-third. The headcount in Shenzhen will decrease by almost 170,000 over the next five years as manufacture shifts inland.

Moreover, Woo added that the facilities of Shenzhen will focus more on development and research, new energy technologies and product testing. He also said that almost 20 percent of the workforce in China is from Henan in eastern part of the country.