Foxconn to invest $138 million for new business headquarters in China

BEIJING: Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler, said on Wednesday it plans to invest 1 billion yuan ($137.5 million) to construct a new business headquarters in Zhengzhou, China.

Foxconn, formally called Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd, signed a contract with the Henan provincial government for the proposed project, which will have a construction area of about 700 acres (283 hectares), the company said.