The Pearl River Delta in China's southern Guangdong province holds the largest manufacturing base in the country, with millions of workers.
But the country's push toward greater output has put their jobs under threat —not by outsourcing, but by the arrival of a new workforce of robots.
Foxconn has become known internationally for churning out high-tech products at high speeds. Their factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is among the largest in the Pearl River Delta region, with more than 200,000 workers on the assembly line.
But in 2011, the company's chairman Terry Guo announced plans to make operations even faster, by installing one million robots in its facilities by 2015. The news caused immediate alarm among the workers on the factory floor.
