BEIJING -- Foxconn's chief executive plans to keep the bulk of the company's manufacturing in China, high-ranking officials told Bloomberg News.

Terry Gou has alerted Chinese officials that he intends to continue to invest domestically, an undisclosed Chinese source told the news service.

China has become concerned, according to some reports, that the world's largest contract manufacturer would bow to pressure from the incoming US administration to relocate manufacturing to the US.

Foxconn employs about a million workers in China, making it the largest private employer in the country. Moreover, stable employment is seen as key to bureaucrats' control over the local areas.

Over the past decade, Foxconn has toyed with the idea of investing in the US, and elsewhere, but has put its major operations in its native Taiwan and China.

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