The appeal, sent by Gou in a letter more than a month ago, played a major role in convincing China's leadership to quickly reopen the economy and move away from its zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy, the report said on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Gou's office said in a statement that it \"sternly denies\" the facts in the report. Foxconn<\/a>, which is the biggest assembler of iPhones<\/a>, declined to comment, while China's State Council Information Office could not be immediately reached for comment.
The Taiwan-based company's Zhengzhou plant, which saw a month-long unrest in November, has lifted its \"closed-loop\" management curbs on Thursday.
The Zhengzhou plant had been grappling with strict COVID restrictions that fuelled discontent among workers over factory conditions, triggering an 11.4% year-on-year drop in November revenue.
Some Wall Street analysts cut their iPhone<\/a> shipment targets for the all-important holiday quarter as a result of turmoil at the major iPhone<\/a> factory.
Chinese health officials and government advisers seized on Gou's letter to bolster the case that the government needed to speed up its efforts to ease its tough COVID-19 controls, the report added.
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