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Taiwanese tycoon Terry Gou, founder of Foxconn, attends a ground breaking ceremony at the new China headquarters building at the Lujiazui financial district of Pudong in Shanghai May 10, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Aly Song By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI | Thu May 10, 2012 3:48am EDT SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving labor conditions at the Chinese factories that assemble iPhones and iPads, Foxconn's top executive said on Thursday. Foxconn chief Terry Gou did not give a figure for the costs, but the group has been spending heavily to fight a perception its vast plants in China are sweatshops with poor conditions for its million-strong labor force. It regards the criticism as unfair. "We've discovered that this (improving factory conditions) is not a cost. It is a competitive strength," Gou told reporters on Thursday after the ground-breaking ceremony for a new China headquarters in Shanghai. 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