The Forbidden City of Terry Gou

ElvaWSJ writes "Hon Hai churns out iPhones and Wiis, and provides a window into China's secretive world of outsourcing and manufacturing. With a work force of some 270,000 — about as big as the population of Newark, N.J. — the factory is a bustling testament to the ambition of Hon Hai's founder, Terry Gou. In an era when manufacturing has been defined by outsourcing, no one has done more to shift global electronics production to China. Little noticed by the wider world, Mr. Gou has turned his company into China's biggest exporter and the world's biggest contract manufacturer of electronics."

Ah, if only

[Stanistani]

Can I roam amongst the endless rows of bins filled with our disposable electronic baubles? Please?

I guess it's ...

[Anonymous Coward]

time to learn chinese.

Re:And unlike so many other Chinese Manufacturers

[subl33t]

Yeah, just his employees.

You go, Gou!

[aapold]

Now that Rupert Murdoch owns the WSJ, I would have expected headlines more in line with, say, the New York post.... you know, like....

Don't have a Gou, man!

Holy Gou!

Gouabunga!

Pass Gou, collect $200 (billion)

Is that to Gou?

The world's first living Simpson's episode

[krou]

FTA:

In addition to its dozens of assembly lines and dormitories, Longhua has a fire brigade, hospital and employee swimming pool, where Mr. Gou does early morning laps when he is there. Restaurants, banks, a grocery store and an Internet cafe line the company town's main drag. More than 500 monitors around the campus show exercise programs, worker-safety videos and company news produced by the in-house television network, Foxconn TV. Even the plant's manhole covers are stamped "Foxconn."

Is it just me, or could I replace "Longhua" with "Cypress Creek", "Mr. Gou" with Hank Scorpio, and "Foxconn" with "Globex Corporation", and we'd have the world's first living simulation of a Simpsons episode?

I've heard the Chinese were good at imitation, but this seems to be going just a bit too far ...

Re:2 cents

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly. I am also happy that kids in developing countries help keep the cost of our T-shirts, toys, and electronics down. If it weren't for those nimble little hands, I'd probably still be stuck with that bulky TV I traded for a nice flat screen last year.