{"id":79669,"date":"2018-06-17T02:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/foxconn-looks-to-ai-after-maker-of-apple-and-amazon-products-celebrates-30-years-in-china"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:05:00","slug":"foxconn-looks-to-ai-after-maker-of-apple-and-amazon-products-celebrates-30-years-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/foxconn-looks-to-ai-after-maker-of-apple-and-amazon-products-celebrates-30-years-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn looks to AI after maker of Apple and Amazon products celebrates 30 years in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/foxconn-looks-to-ai-after-maker-of-apple-and-amazon-products-celebrates-30-years-in-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That growth in factory worker salaries has been a double-edged sword for China. On one hand, it has increased the purchasing power of Chinese which in turn has powered consumer-led economic growth, but on the other it has made China less competitive on wages and forced companies like Foxconn to introduce more automation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>With 1 million employees and half a dozen factories contributing 4 per cent of the country\u2019s export value, Foxconn\u2019s expansion symbolises China\u2019s role as tech manufacturing powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/china-tech\/article\/2149955\/foxconn-looks-ai-after-maker-apple-and-amazon-products-celebrates-30\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/china-tech\/article\/2149955\/foxconn-...ebrates-30<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That growth in factory worker salaries has been a double-edged sword for China. On one hand, it has increased the purchasing power of Chinese which in turn has powered consumer-led economic growth, but on the other it has made China less competitive on wages and forced companies like Foxconn to introduce more automation. With 1 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79791,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79669\/revisions\/79791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}