"It will be a co-management model." Investors are keen for any insight into succession plans at the world's largest contract manufacturer, whose business ranges from smartphone assembling to panel manufacturing, and what it means for plans laid out by Gou such as a $10 billion investment to create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin and an $8.8 billion display factory in southern China. Foxconn is already under the spotlight for having failed so far to meet job-creation targets in Wisconsin, a plan cited by U.S. President Donald Trump as proof he was reviving American manufacturing.