今天的CHINADAILY 报道的是河南职业学生的去富士康工作 Students 'forced' to work at Foxconn Beijing - In a striking development, up to 100,000 vocational school students in Henan province have been ordered to leave for Shenzhen over the weekend for a three-month internship at Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer, which has halted employment in the southern industrial hub after a string of employee suicides. An unnamed official from the provincial employment promotion office told Henan Daily on Thursday that the project would boost local employment and aid the industrial upgrade in Henan, China's most populous province. But for 17-year-old Lin Feng (not his real name) and thousands of other vocational students, the only option aside from joining the scandal-plagued manufacturing giant is to drop out of school. Lin, in his second year in a vocational school in Henan's capital of Zhengzhou, was not informed of the news until June 17. His teachers said all students must leave in nine days "as ordered by the provincial government", and all those who refuse would have to drop out. Lin, who's training to be a locksmith, is hardly a fit at the electronics manufacturer's Shenzhen plant. Although he is worried about the working conditions at Foxconn, he is too shy and curious to quit. "Everybody is going I can go find out why all those Foxconn employees killed themselves. It's kind of fun," Lin told China Daily. Apart from vocational school students, officials in Henan are also looking for other potential candidates to work at Foxconn. A township official in Zhengzhou said he had received "clear internal orders" from the superior government for each town to employ 100 additional 18-to-45 year-olds for Foxconn. A Zhengzhou-based official, who declined to be identified, said he was told that Foxconn would employ 300,000 people in Henan to work in Shenzhen and they will be transferred back to Henan once Foxconn opens its plants in the province. Foxconn spokesperson Liu Kun refused comment on the matter on Friday. The move is the latest effort by the Taiwan-owned Foxconn Technology Group to shift its major source of labor from the coastal Shenzhen to China's relatively underdeveloped interior in the wake of 13 suicide attempts by its staff - 10 of which were successful - in just five months. In the aftermath, Foxconn promised to boost the average monthly wage of its assembly workers from 900 yuan ($132) to around 2,000 yuan starting October and then froze employment in Shenzhen. Chen Hong contributed to this story. China Daily (China Daily 06/26/2010 page4)