As hundreds of workers spill out of the canteen after lunch, the young women’s bright pink uniform jumpers stand out against the grey sky, the hulking grey factory buildings and the thick grey coal dust under their feet.
They are back at work at Foxconn Technology Group’s plant in Taiyuan, and some of them wonder how nothing has changed after it was rocked by one of China’s worst incidents of labour unrest in years.
People’s Armed Police yesterday continued patrolling the Foxconn campus in groups of 12 and the car park of mdo – an upmarket shopping mall across the street from the south-west corner of the factory campus – was blocked off and filled with more than 30 lorries, 15 vans and several buses carrying PAP in a show of force.