Samsung’s last China smartphone factory closing, raising questions about China’s role in global value chains 6park.com
Huizhou Samsung is the South Korean electronics giant’s last smartphone factory in China but signs indicate it will follow facilities in Tianjin and ShenzhenHuawei, Xiaomi and Oppo have taken hold of the Chinese market, while the US-China trade war is forcing the company towards production in Vietnam and India 6park.com
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He Huifeng   6park.com
Published: 5:00am, 15 Jun, 2019
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Huizhou Samsung Electronics began production in 2003. Photos: He Huifeng 6park.com
In its heyday, Samsung’s complex in Huizhou in the northern part of the Pearl River Delta was the South Korean company’s largest Chinese factory, producing one in five smartphones sold in China in 2011. 6park.com
Now, the small shops and suppliers that surround the vast complex – the focal point for the community for 27 years – have fallen silent and a notice posted on the gate and dated February 28 tells passers-by that recruitment has been suspended. 6park.com
“Actually, since February after the Chinese Lunar New Year, many – and a growing number – of residents of the [nearby] town of Chenjiang, from businesspeople, hawkers, workers, landlords to security guards at nearby electronics factories, have heard and spread the rumours that Samsung will shut down a large part of its production capacity in the coming months,” said Zhong Ming, a local resident in his 40s who has witnessed the rise of the Samsung factory over the last three decades. 6park.com
Huizhou Samsung Electronics is Samsung’s last smartphone factory in China after the company closed its facility in Tianjin in December, having already ceased network equipment production earlier in 2018 at its factory in Shenzhen. 6park.com
Workers in Huizhou talk of colleagues having already accepted voluntary redundancy, while other local residents, workers and suppliers have almost taken it for granted that the factory will close. 6park.com
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A notice at its gate dated February 28 that the factory has stopped hiring. Many big buses are parked inside the compound but none was seen moving in or out of the gate. SCMP / He Huifeng 6park.com