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Inside Foxconn’s India iPhone factory expansion - Rest of World

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Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.

Photography by Saumya Khandelwal for Rest of World By Viola Zhou and Nilesh Christopher 28 November 2023 • Sunguvarchatram, India W hen Chinese engineer Li Hai left the wintry cold of northern China and flew into the humid heat of Tamil Nadu in southern India, he had little idea what to expect. It was early 2023. Months before the trip, a manager at the Foxconn iPhone factory where he worked had asked for volunteers to go on a temporary assignment to India. Li didn’t think long. He’d never traveled much, but was eager to. “I just wanted to go out and take a look,” Li told Rest of World, u

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