Workers at a production workshop of Foxconn's technology park in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province on July 24, 2021. The park is a major global smartphone manufacturing base. Photo: VCG

Apple supplier Foxconn said production has resumed in South China's tech hub Shenzhen on Wednesday, two days after the company said operations in the city were being suspended in compliance with the local government's new COVID-19 policy.


The company has also begun applying a closed-loop management process at factories in Shenzhen, Foxconn said in a statement it sent to the Global Times on Wednesday. 

"This process, which can only be done on campuses that include both employee housing and production facilities, adheres to strict industry guidelines and closed-loop management policies issued by the Shenzhen government. The company is also closely following and applying the government's pandemic prevention measures," it said. 

Meanwhile, some operations have been restarted and some production is being carried out, Foxconn said.

Industrial observers told the Global Times previously that the suspension of Foxconn operations in Shenzhen would have only a limited impact on its overall business. Foxconn's plants in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan Province and Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, are operating as usual. Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory is one of the largest assembly sites for iPhones in the world.

Foxconn has more than 40 plants in the Chinese mainland, according to media reports.

The authorities in Shenzhen, a coastal city bordering Hong Kong with 17 million residents, decided on Sunday to put all residential communities under closed management, close stores and business, suspend transportation and launch three rounds of city-wide testing, starting from Monday, as the local COVID-19 situation was worsening.

Shenzhen reported 92 new COVID-19 cases in Shenzhen on Tuesday.