The world's largest producer of electrical components, Foxconn, has started construction of a mobile phone handset-assembly plant within a 138sqkm business park surrounding Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport.

The Taiwan-based company will begin large scale production from the plan in the first-quarter 2011, with a monthly capacity of 100,000 handsets in first-quarter 2011, rising to 300,000 units eventually, industrial sources told DigiTimes.

By Oliver Clark