Chinese authorities have detained four employees of Foxconn, the Taiwanese manufacturer that makes Apple iPhones, Taiwan said, in the latest incident involving government scrutiny of the private sector in mainland China.

台湾表示，中国当局拘留了四名富士康员工。富士康是生产苹果iPhone的台湾制造商。这是中国政府对大陆私营部门进行审查的最新事件。

The police in Zhengzhou, China, had accused each of the four Taiwanese workers of an offense comparable to Taiwan’s “crime of breach of trust,” according to a statement on Thursday from Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council.

据台湾大陆委员会（简称陆委会）周四发表的声明称，中国郑州警方指控四名台湾员工犯有相当于台湾“背信罪”的罪行。

The council described Foxconn as saying that, “the company did not suffer any losses, and the four employees also did not harm the company’s interests.” The statement from the Taiwan government added that the detentions could have been the result of “corruption and abuse of power” by law enforcement officers. It was not clear what jobs the Foxconn employees performed.

陆委会称富士康“没有任何损失，也没有资金被挪用问题”。台湾政府的声明还说，拘留可能是执法人员“滥权”的结果。目前尚不清楚这些富士康员工从事何种工作。

Foxconn, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of consumer electronics, plays a central role in making iPhones and other products for Apple.

富士康是全球最大的消费电子产品制造商之一，在为苹果生产iPhone和其他产品方面发挥着重要作用。

Foxconn did not immediately comment on Friday.

富士康周五没有立即发表评论。

Mao Ning, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, did not address the detentions, which have been in the news in Taiwan for the past two days, during the ministry’s daily news conference on Thursday. The ministry had no immediate response on Friday.

在周四举行的例行新闻发布会上，中国外交部发言人毛宁没有谈及过去两天台湾媒体报道的这起拘留事件。周五，外交部没有立即作出回应。

Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council declined to elaborate on where or when the detentions had taken place. Some reports in Taiwanese news media said that all four Foxconn employees were detained in January in Zhengzhou, which is 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Other reports said that two of the employees were detained in Zhengzhou in January and that two were detained in April in Shenzhen, which is in southern China.

台湾陆委会拒绝详细说明拘留事件发生的地点和时间。台湾新闻媒体的一些报道称，富士康四名员工均于1月在郑州被拘留。另有报道称，其中两名员工于1月在郑州被拘留，另两名员工于4月在深圳被拘留。

A woman answering the phone for the Zhengzhou police said that she was not personally aware of the case but that any questions would have to be answered by police media personnel, whose phone number she declined to provide.

接听郑州警方电话的一名女士表示，她本人并不了解此案，但任何问题都必须由警方处理媒体事务的人员回答，她拒绝提供相关人员的电话号码。

Since January, there have been 77 incidents in which Taiwanese have gone missing in mainland China, often in cases involving fraud allegations, according to Luo Wen-jia, secretary general of the Straits Exchange Foundation, a semiofficial organization in Taiwan that handles relations with mainland China. He warned Taiwanese against being lured to the mainland to participate in illegal schemes.

据负责处理与中国大陆关系的台湾半官方组织海峡交流基金会秘书长罗文嘉称，自1月以来，已有77起台湾人在中国大陆失联的事件，其中大多数涉及欺诈指控。他警告台湾人不要被引诱到大陆参与非法计划。

Foreign and domestic businesses in mainland China have increasingly faced fines and tax audits. Chinese state media reported in October 2023 that Foxconn faced tax audits in four provinces, including Henan, of which Zhengzhou is the capital.

中国大陆的国内外企业越来越多地面临罚款和税务审计。中国官方媒体2023年10月报道称，富士康在包括河南在内的四个省份面临税务审计，郑州是该省的省会。

Local and provincial governments across China are running out of cash and struggling to maintain public services. One of their main sources of money — frequent sales of state land to developers — has dried up because of the housing market crash.

中国各地的地方和省级政府都面临资金短缺问题，难以维持公共服务。他们的主要资金来源之一——频繁向开发商出售国有土地——因房地产市场崩盘而枯竭。

Many multinationals and Taiwanese enterprises depend on large numbers of Taiwanese to run their operations in mainland China. But the Taiwanese government and lawmakers have issued a series of warnings about travel to the mainland.

许多跨国公司和台湾企业依赖大量台湾人在中国大陆开展业务。但台湾政府和立法者已就前往大陆发出了一系列警告。