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Taiwan IT giant Foxconn – hit by a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants – plans to replace 500,000 workers with robots in the next three years, state media reported toay.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Foxconn – the world’s largest maker of computer components, which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia – plans to use one million robots to do “simple” work, China Business News quoted chairman Terry Gou saying.<\/p>\n

Gou announced the plan to 10,000 staff at a company event in Shenzhen on Friday, various media reports said.<\/p>\n

Foxconn currently has 10,000 robots doing painting, welding and assembly tasks.<\/strong> It will increase that number to 300,000 next year and to one million in 2014, the report said.<\/p>\n

The Taiwan-based company employs more than one million workers at its Chinese plants, about half of them based in its main facility in the southern city of Shenzhen.<\/p>\n

At least 14 workers have died in apparent suicides since last year, most of them in Shenzhen.<\/strong> Activists blamed the deaths on tough working conditions and have called for better treatment of staff.<\/p>\n

Foxconn has been expanding its workforce in other parts of China as it seeks to scale back the size of its Shenzhen plant.<\/p>\n

The firm opened a $2 billion Chengdu plant in October<\/strong>, according to China’s state-run Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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