Longhua Science and Technology Park

{{short description|Technology park in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, China}}

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Science and Technology Park ({{lang|zh|深圳富士康龙华园区}}) is a technology park in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in the south of China, that is Foxconn's largest factory site worldwide. It gained notoriety in 2010 after a spate of suicide attempts, many of them successful, by employees at the Foxconn facilities in the area, totaling 15 attempts that year, 10-13 of which were fatal.

The park produces the bulk of Apple's iPhone line. Hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000,{{cite news |title=How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work |first=Charles |last=Duhigg |author2=Keith Bradsher |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 21, 2012 |accessdate=January 24, 2012}} 300,000,{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-may-26-la-fg-china-suicides-20100526-story.html |title=Firm Shaken by Suicides|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 26, 2010}} and 450,000{{cite news|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201008190012&Type=aECO|title=Foxcon Plans To Increase China Workforce to 1.3 Million|publisher=Focus Taiwan News Channel|date= 2010-08-19 |accessdate= 2010-08-19}}) are employed at the site, a walled campus{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118677584137994489 |title=The Forbidden City of Terry Gou|publisher=The Wall Street Journal|date= 2007-08-11}} sometimes referred to as “Foxconn City”. Covering about {{cvt|3|sqkm|sqmi}},{{cite news|url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-02/foxconn-workers-in-china-say-meaningless-life-sparks-suicides.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602102509/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-02/foxconn-workers-in-china-say-meaningless-life-sparks-suicides.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 2, 2010 |title=Foxconn Workers in China Say 'Meaningless' Life Sparks Suicides|work=BusinessWeek|date=June 2, 2010}} it includes 15 factories,{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16231588 |title=Suicides at Foxconn: Light and Death|newspaper=The Economist|date=May 27, 2010}} worker dormitories, 4 swimming pools,{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/apple-and-dell-comment-as-foxconn-ceo-shows-off-the-pool/ |title=Apple, Dell, and HP comment on suicides as Foxconn CEO shows off the pool |publisher=Engadget |date= |accessdate=2012-02-10}} a fire brigade, its own television network (Foxconn TV), and a city centre with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and hospital. While some workers live in surrounding towns and villages, others live and work inside the complex;{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/weekinreview/20barboza.html |title=A Night at the Electronics Factory|work=The New York Times|date=June 19, 2010}} a quarter of the employees live in the dormitories, and many of them work up to 12 hours a day for 6 days each week.