China factories tap student interns amid labour shortage

In September, the largest factory in the northeastern Chinese coastal city of Yantai called on the local government with a problem – a shortage of 19,000 workers as the deadline on a big order approached.

Yantai officials came to the rescue, ordering vocational high schools to send students to the plant run by Foxconn Technology, a Taiwanese maker of smartphones, computers and gaming equipment.

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