Foxconn Technology Group has announced that in 2010, the company's export value from its Shenzhen processing and trade enterprise reached USD48 billion, a year-on-year increase of 50%.

The first official Apple Store in Shanghai will open on July 10, 2010.

The world's three major IT companies — Apple, HP and Dell — are reportedly respectively conducting investigations on the working conditions of Foxconn following the series of suicides happened in the Shenzhen factory of this Taiwan-based original electronics manufacturer.

Wintek Suzhou, an affiliate of Wintek Corporation and a major supplier of components for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, has been exposed by China Central Television for hazardous work conditions and disputes about employee welfare.

Apple (AAPL) has announced plans to sell refurbished products on its Chinese official website at discounted prices, and these products include the iMac and iPod product lines.

Taiwan-based technology manufacturing group Hon Hai Precision will become the general agent for Apple's (AAPL) products on the Chinese mainland and the company will start its large-scale deployment in the mainland channels market later this year.

Shenyang Municipal Intermediate People's Court has announced its decision on a trademark infringement lawsuit between the U.S.-based Apple and the Shenzhen-based New Apple Concept Digital Technology Co., Ltd., which orders the Shenzhen-based electronics company to pay CNY400,000 compensation to Apple for trademark and logo infringements.

Foxconn, the Chinese original equipment manufacturer that was embroiled in controversy about working conditions two years ago at its factory that manufacturered Apple iPods, is rumored to be reducing its electronics manufacturing staff without formally declaring the cuts.

By ChinaTechNews.com Editorial Team Apple (AAPL) has arrived in China — about fifteen years too late but still with enough time to do some damage to both the stranglehold Microsoft (MSFT) has on the Middle Kingdom's computing market and to make a dent in the mobile handset sphere.

Apple (AAPL) has confirmed on its official website that the company will open its first Apple Store in China in Sanlitun in Beijing on July 19, 2008.

Apple (AAPL) China's official website shows that Apple will soon set up its first direct-operated store in China in Beijing's Sanlitun area, but the website does not disclose when exactly the store will be opened.

After operating in the Chinese mainland market for 15 years through agents, Apple (AAPL) now has decided to open its first boutique store in China to expand its retail business.

Zhang Zhengkui, special consultant to Terry Kuo, president of Taiwan based Foxconn, has donated CNY60 million to Sichuan earthquake victims on behalf of Terry Kuo, Foxconn Group and the company's employees. This is the largest sum of donation that Sichuan has received from a Taiwanese company.

Apple's (AAPL) first store-in-store in mainland China has been unveiled at the Best Buy store in Shanghai's Xuhui area.