Wheel of fortune turns company's way, for now

Taizhong, along with many other State-owned enterprises, has its own workers' residences, which have fostered a company culture over more than a half-century.

Workers have known each other's families for three generations. They go to the same schools, wear the same work uniforms, eat in the same dining hall and speak the same slang with the same accent, unlike anywhere else in the city.

They go to the same hospital. And, one day, they'll be buried in the same graveyard.