New quality productive forces to boost economic transformation

Nation’s firms make high-tech goods more affordable

A large number of foreign buyers were attracted by an intelligent forklift automated guided vehicle (AGV), stopping to watch and take photos and videos, upon entering the exhibition hall of intelligent automation and intelligent manufacturing at the ongoing 135th session of the Canton Fair.

But the buyers soon saw that industrial robots, automatic production lines and many other types of high-end manufacturing equipment are waiting to be explored.

These high-tech products are a vivid display of China’s new quality productive forces, which not only empower the country’s economic transformation and high-quality development but can fuel the development of modern and intelligent industrialization around the world, especially in developing countries, said exhibitors and buyers.

“Following in the footsteps of many of our Chinese customers who built factories overseas, our intelligent forklift AGVs are going global to help make our customers’ factories more intelligent and automated,” Ma Feifei, brand director of Hefei Gen-song Intelligent Technologies Co, told the Global Times.

This has helped all countries and regions, especially developing ones, achieve industrialization, and enhanced the stability of industrial and supply chains in the world, said Ma, adding that Gen-song had received more than 100 inquiries about its products as of Tuesday, the second day of the Canton Fair.

“All of our AGVs are self-developed, including the brain – the control processors inside the AGVs,” Ma noted.

Andy Lee, sales manager of Zhejiang Jinaolan Machine Tool Co, told the Global Times that the company’s production lines for stamping were self-developed.

Jinaolan is a supplier to manufacturers of lithium batteries, home appliances, automobiles and other items. Its fully automatic production line can eliminate about seven jobs, said Lee.

“Our annual export value is about 50 million yuan ($6.9 million) to 100 million yuan. This is our third time participating in the Canton Fair, and more and more overseas buyers have come to see our products. We have received some inquiries from buyers from Russia, Southeast Asia and Africa,” said Lee.

With more and more advanced technologies, together with China’s worldleading manufacturing level and stable supply chains, Chinese enterprises are making high-tech products more affordable for the world, industry insiders said.

The 135th session of the Canton Fair continues to embrace high-tech and intelligent manufacturing. There are more than 90,000 intelligent products from nearly 3,600 enterprises being showcased, such as brain-computer interface bionic hands.