According to the company, Early Light Industrial ensures the welfare of its employees by managing factories in compliance with the CARE process of the International Council of Toy Industries (ICTI); it contributes to local relief funds during times of crisis and research and social development foundations. Nevertheless, the company's Shaoguan factory became the focus of world attention when it was the centre of a factory brawl which, according to official sources, killed 2 and injured 118 people, most of which Uyghurs, and which has been widely cited as the incident which resulted in street protests, and subsequently riots, in the Xinjiang capital of Ürümqi in July 2009. The factory, located in Wujiang District, employs some 16,000 workers. At the behest of the Guangdong authorities, it hired 800 workers from Kashgar, as part of an ethnic program which relocated 200,000 young Uyghurs since the start of 2008.