Workers have been staging a mass exodus from Apple’s biggest iPhone factory in China, seeking to escape hastily enacted COVID-19 measures that left many of the thousands of staff grappling with inadequate living conditions.
The huge factory complex in Zhengzhou city in central Henan province has in excess of 200,000 workers. Some reports are saying there are up to 300,000 workers there, all of who can be accommodated on-site at any given time.
Videos and photos flooded Chinese social media platforms showing people, who are apparently Foxconn workers, climbing over fences and carrying their belongings down the road.
The exodus came after the situation at the plant started to deteriorate, with food supplies running low and reports of up to 20,000 workers locked in their dormitory rooms for quarantine…
As 10s of thousands of workers risked their lives to escape from Foxconn iPhone factory in #china's Zhengzhou to reach Freedom, here is what it looks inside the workers campus. pic.twitter.com/Mf6tQSQUtb
— Northrop Gundam ∀ 2.0 捍禦の大佐 🙏🏼🇹🇼 (@GundamNorthrop) October 31, 2022
BREAKING: CHINA — Military moving into the Chinese iPhone factory to reinforce lockdown.
Zhengzhou City
October 30th, 2022 pic.twitter.com/ox0WsRDMEQ— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) October 30, 2022
BREAKING: CHINA, iPhone factory — Chinese network carriers, ''China Mobile'' and ''China Unicorn'', are deploying mobile phone jammers in the factory to cut off the workers's communications to stop them from speaking out what's going on in the lockdowned factory pic.twitter.com/M1xOQPJulJ
— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) October 31, 2022
China 🇨🇳 time, 3:30pm.
Chinese government sets razor wire fence walls along with the expressways to stop these iPhone factory workers from buying food, water…on their way to home
Zhengzhou City
October 29th, 2022 pic.twitter.com/RjYQqlDgzB— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) October 29, 2022
China 🇨🇳 time: 5am
Chinese iPhone factory workers are fleeing their lockdown factory for their lives now
Some of them have been walking 33 hours . Because their QR codes are yellow, so they cannot take any public transportationshttps://t.co/YwI7Wo9dm8Zhengzhou City
2022.10.29 pic.twitter.com/5f3KBEaFQg— Songpinganq (@songpinganq) October 28, 2022
COVID Outbreak In Zhengzhou, Henan. Tens of thousands Foxconn workers walking out of factory lockdown, going home bare foot on the Central Plain’s great earth. 在中原的大地上默默行走着…
2022 hasn’t been kind to Henan’s people. Hope they get home safe. pic.twitter.com/m1EKp2mg73
— Hao HONG 洪灝, CFA (@HAOHONG_CFA) October 30, 2022
Workers are reportedly escaping Apple’s largest iPhone factory in China after being placed on lockdown because of a COVID outbreak.
Videos shared online show employees apparently fleeing the plant, which employs about 200,000 people ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/Airzr0O1MY
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) October 31, 2022
Workers were seen fleeing the world’s largest iPhone assembly factory in China after a Covid outbreak. pic.twitter.com/F5YiWoffgk
— South China Morning Post (@SCMPNews) October 31, 2022
In the days of "Foxconn Great Escape" from the iPhone factory in #china's Zhengzhou, many commercial drivers risked being criminally charged by CCP by picking up the Covid refugees on foot that are trying to reach for Freedom. pic.twitter.com/n30m8hOLJp
— Northrop Gundam ∀ 2.0 捍禦の大佐 🙏🏼🇹🇼 (@GundamNorthrop) October 31, 2022
