As Chinese workers returned to duty following a Lunar New Year break, the Changan Ford plant in the northeastern city of Harbin remained empty, with staff on an extended vacation until March.
“It’s a much longer break than last year, which was about a week,” said a security guard at the joint-venture plant, which opened in 2017 after a $1.1bn investment and can produce up to 200,000 Focus models a year.
Ford is one of several carmakers cutting production in China, the world’s largest car market where passenger vehicle sales fell 4 per cent to 23m last year, their first annual decline in almost three decades.
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