The article reads like an April fools joke:

  Roof patrols were also being arranged and nets installed 
  around buildings to deter suicidal workers, it added.
  
  "If they jump, they'll fall into the safety nets, so 
  their lives will be saved," a contractor told the channel.

And the surprising bit:

  But there was no shortage of people trying to get through 
  the factory gates. Around 8,000 people apply to work at the 
  factory every day, Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun told the 
  state-run China Daily newspaper.