SHANGHAI: Shanghai plans to build 200 new smart factories and 20 demonstration sites by end of 2025 after 70 intelligent plants in 2023, officials announced, solidifying its intelligent manufacturing stronghold, according to China Daily report.
Covering auto, equipment and IT, this year’s batch features life-cycle, process and supply chain enhancements. As the nation’s largest smart solutions provider and a core equipment hub, the city sees such innovation as vital for industrial competitiveness.
“Intelligent manufacturing plays a key role in new industrialization and is pivotal for Shanghai’s digital economic transition,” said Vice Mayor Chen Jie. Over 19 national-level intelligent factories now operate alongside 100 municipal and 1,000-plus smart applications, with over 70 percent of firms passing evaluations.
Benefits abound – average efficiency exceeding 50 percent higher, costs 30 percent lower and energy consumption cut nearly 14 percent. “With government support, we’ve achieved automation heights,”
said parts maker Aptiv Electrical’s Ops Director Xu Xiaoying.
Output value of Shanghai’s world-class system integration segment has topped US$8.5 billion. Its 383 robots per 10,000 workers also leads globally. Accelerated nurturing of marquee clusters reinforces the upgraded, tech-driven industrialisation push.
“By integrating innovation, Shanghai exemplifies next-gen manufacturing led by technology,” said Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician Qian Feng.
Source: Emirates News Agency
NEW YORK: Famine is around the corner in Gaza as people there are facing the “highest levels of food insecurity ever recorded,” the UN emergency relief chief Martin Griffiths said yesterday as the Israeli genocide campaign on the enclave completes over 91 consecutive days.
Citing a death toll in the tens of thousands as a result of indiscriminate Israeli airstrikes, coinciding with attacks on medical facilities and a lack of functioning hospitals, Griffiths said in a statement that Gaza had become “a place of death and despair… Hope has never been more elusive.”
Griffiths added that a public health disaster is unfolding in Gaza as infectious diseases spread in overcrowded shelters, with sewers spilling over, adding that around 180 Palestinian women “are giving birth daily amidst this chaos.”
“Gaza has simply become uninhabitable. Its people are witnessing daily threats to their very existence – while the world watches on,” Griffiths said in the statement issued by the United Nations Office for the Coordina
tion of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Over 22,500 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its relentless war on Gaza on October 7, according to the Ministry of Health. In addition, up to 1.9 million people have been displaced since the beginning of the war, according to the UNRWA.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA