Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, the contract maker of Apple Inc. iPhones and Hewlett-Packard Co. computers, plans to establish a factory with 300,000 workers in central China's Henan province, the local government said.

The company is looking to hire 100,000 workers in the near-term from Henan province who will be sent for training at Foxconn's facilities in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the government of the city of Hebi, in Henan, said on Friday in a statement on its website. After completing training, the workers will have the option of returning to work in Henan, according to the statement.