Closing of iPhone factory in China has spawned a new ghost town

Apple has decided to stop the production of iPhones at the Foxconn factory in Nanning, China. Before that, 50,000 people worked in the factory, and now the production has been moved to Vietnam, after which the factory has been emptied, and the city itself has actually become a ghost town, the China Observer YouTube channel reports.

A local source told China Observer that the factory required enormous resources to employ 50,000 workers. They consumed 60 tons of rice a day, as well as 280 pigs, 1.2 million eggs, and 80,000 chickens. Perhaps we are talking about the food consumed not only for the workers, but also for their families, but the source did not elaborate on this detail.

Apartments in the skyscrapers next to the factory, built for workers, are hard to sell, even at huge discounts. Locals are not very hopeful that Foxconn will resume production soon. According to Appleinsider, Foxconn only actively uses a handful of buildings, the vast majority of which are either vacant or rented out.

China Observer's sources said that the equipment from various Foxconn enterprises was exported to the corresponding factories in Vietnam.