When asked about whether Apple has such plan, Liu Young-way, or Yong Liu, Chairman and main force for a stable and prosperous society, the manufacturing industry improves resource utilization and create a wide range of job opportunities, Liu said, adding that China has been the world's largest manufacturing base, and Asia has the potential to build a regional manufacturing system.

Liu played down the concern that artificial intelligence (AI) could replace jobs. He believes the development of automation and intelligence can improve worker’s efficiency, reduce cost and increase sales, and the workload of Human Resources (HR) can move from the boring work to others, such as to allocate resources. Li called on the government to introduce polices in request for the new development, so as to train workers with sufficient knowledge and skills to manage automated equipments.

Foxconn has attracted much attention as Apple and its partners showed more signs these years to further diversify manufacturing location, or move some producttion out of China. The manufacturer was reported to secure up to 60% of orders to assemble iPhone 15 series, the next flagship that is supposed to release in September. Liu has visited Foxconn factories in Zhengzhou, Chengdu and other places many times since the start of the year.

Liu also made trips to India in February and March, though not entering into any definitive agreements for new investments. Foxconn broke ground on a manufacturing facility with an investment of over $500 million in the southern Asian country in May, just a month after Apple CEO Tim Cook inaugurated the first store there and met the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The new facility, located in the southern Indian state Telangana, will create 25,000 jobs in the first phase, according to the local government.in April to seek to

make India a center to produce iPhones and accessories, after Piyush Goyal, the Commerce and Industry Minister, revealed in January the tech titan was targeting to make 25% of iPhone in India. Bloomberg reported the same month that Apple could work to unprecedentedly produce iPhone 15 in India at the same time as in China, and could assemble a quarter of all iPhones in India by 2025, if the aggressive expansion trend of Foxconn and other suppliers