Chinese company CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles, which won the contract to build 65 new high capacity metro trains for Melbourne in 2016 has been identified as a potential beneficiary of Uighur labour.
The enterprise was recently blacklisted by the US government due to the security risks posed by its ties to the Chinese government as it is a subsidiary of major Chinese state owned rolling stock manufacturer, CCRC.
The KTK Group, a supplier to CRRC, started using Uighur labour in 2019 at one of its Chinese factories and the Victorian government has sought assurances from the company that it is not benefiting from exploited labour.