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"As part of what he calls a \"road trip\" to China, Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday tweeted out a photo of himself sitting with a Foxconn worker putting the finishing touches on a new iPhone 6 model. \r\n\r\n&amp;lt;div align=\"center\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;img src=http://photos.appleinsider.com/gallery/10874-3330-141022-Cook_China-l.png alt=\"\" /&amp;gt;\r\n&amp;lt;span class=\"minor2 small gray\"&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;\r\n\r\nAs seen in the photo above, the Apple chief is apparently doing some legwork in China outside of his talks with the country's vice premier, and one of the &amp;lt;a href=\"https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/525094685593722880\"&amp;gt;first stops&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; was Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, where he met with assembly line workers building the latest iPhones.\r\n\r\n\"Great to meet talented people like Zhang Fan, who helps make iPhone 6 in Zhengzhou,\" Cook writes. \"An early highlight of this trip.\"\r\n\r\nCook is reportedly &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/22/hacks-targeting-chinese-icloud-users-prompt-apple-ceo-tim-cook-to-meet-chinas-vice-premier\"&amp;gt;scheduled to meet&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; with China's Vice Premier Ma Kai in Zhongnanhai, a government complex in Beijing, to discuss recent &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/21/hackers-targeting-apple-icloud-users-in-mainland-china-with-massive-attack\"&amp;gt;targeted attacks&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; on iCloud originating from the country. An activist group called GreatFire.org alleges Chinese government involvement.\r\n\r\nAs for the Foxconn plant, Zhengzhou is known to be a critical point in Apple's iPhone supply chain. During Apple's quarterly &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/20/notes-of-interest-from-apples-q4-2014-conference-call\"&amp;gt;conference call&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; for the three-month period ending in September, Cook said that iPhone 6 demand is &amp;lt;a href=\"http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/20/iphone-6-demand-continues-to-outstrip-supply-may-not-see-balance-before-2015\"&amp;gt;far outstripping&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt; supply, suggesting that at least one reason for the trip may be to check on production progress."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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