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00:03:41We're in one
00:03:41of the main cradles of Chinese civilization, a province that is
00:03:45shaped both the country's ancient past as well as its
00:03:49modern
00:03:49in history. Shanchi is looking firmly ahead with its
00:03:53electric vehicles to advanced manufacturing, from
00:03:57a automation to smart agriculture. This province. has its sights
00:04:00of and ambitions firmly
00:04:02of set on becoming economic and
00:04:04a technological
00:04:05powerhouse.
00:04:27of
00:04:36and of to understand China, three facts must never be
00:04:39forgotten:
00:04:41of China is history, China is
00:04:44land,
00:04:48China is
00:04:49people.
00:04:55Just like Frank Copra's iconic film from nearly a century ago,
00:04:59said to understand a country as vast as
00:05:03China, you have to break it into three
00:05:06in things: first, it's history, then it's
00:05:10in land as well as its
00:05:12of people. and And there's no better place to start that story right here than in
00:05:16Shanchi province.
00:05:19Located on the western edge of China's heartland, this province has been
00:05:23home to more Chinese dynasties than anywhere else in the
00:05:26country, but one changed
00:05:29everything. 22 centuries ago, a king
00:05:33named Yung Jong conquered China's warring states and
00:05:37crowned himself Chin Shung, or the first
00:05:41emperor. His kingdom Chin gave the west
00:05:45the word China and modern Shani sits its
00:05:48heart. Chinching built the first unified
00:05:52great wall in Chinese history, stitching together
00:05:56older fortifications into one long line of
00:05:59defense. You might know that wall from very different
00:06:02story: a 2016 movie that put
00:06:06Matt Damon top of it, fighting monsters.
00:06:10And yes, Hollywood did take some liberties,
00:06:14because the real emperor isn't remembered for wall, he's
00:06:18remembered for, we need to move, we need to move and we
00:06:22die,
00:06:34more than 2,0 years ago, China's first emperor created this
00:06:37vast army of Terrakotta warriors hoping that they would protect
00:06:41him in. in the afterlife, but in doing so, he
00:06:45inadvertly left behind something for the living, an
00:06:48extraordinary window into ancient China.
00:06:52Today, new technology is helping researchers to look even
00:06:55deeper into treasures like this, preserving the past,
00:06:59while also unlocking the secrets that have been buried for
00:07:03thousands of years. So how do you build an army
00:07:07of 8,00 soldiers with literally no two faces
00:07:11alike, using nothing? but river clay more than 2
00:07:14years ago, well the answer says as much about ancient
00:07:18china's ambition as the warriors themselves and it
00:07:22starts like any production run with raw
00:07:25material. the process
00:07:29began with local clay,
00:07:31it was cleaned, mixed with water and prepared for one of history's
00:07:35earliest large-scale manufacturing
00:07:37operations. like modern assembly
00:07:41line, specialized workshops produced standardized body
00:07:44parts in batches before moving them to the next
00:07:47stage. skilled artisans then
00:07:51hand-finished every face, hairstyle and armor,
00:07:55ensuring no two warriors looked exactly
00:07:57alike. once assembled, the figures
00:08:01were fired in large kilns, transforming soft clay
00:08:05into durable
00:08:06terracotta. finally, each
00:08:10warrior was painted and placed in formation creating an
00:08:14army of thousands to guard China's first
00:08:17emperor for eternity.
00:08:21Treasures like these aren't rare in Chanchi. They're almost
00:08:25everywhere. Province is dotted with museums holding
00:08:29relics from China's earliest dynasties. And this
00:08:33one in Booji ranks is one the country's largest,
00:08:37dedicated entirely to Bronze. Inside sits an
00:08:40unassuming vessel called the " Hudson cast more than 30
00:08:44years ago, it carries something remarkable and that is the
00:08:48earliest known written record the word zongo
00:08:52or middle kingdom, what China has called itself for more than
00:08:56200 years. But these museums
00:08:59aren't just preserving the past, they're finding new ways
00:09:03to bring it to life.
00:09:07Visitors can put on AR glasses and watch ancient bronze
00:09:10workshops reassemble themselves. in front their
00:09:13eyes, or scan a QR code beside
00:09:17relic and hear its story translated, animated and
00:09:21explained. Old Bronze,
00:09:24new technology. It's a pairing that shows up again and
00:09:28again in Shanchi. Shani's story
00:09:32doesn't end with emperors. In 1935, in
00:09:36the midst of a civil war, exhausted communist forces
00:09:40staggered into Yanan. after a brutal year-long
00:09:44retreat known as the long march, it marked the end
00:09:48of one struggle and the start of another.
00:09:51Mausdong spent the next decade building his movement from these very
00:09:55hills. Today, visiting Yanan carries
00:09:59something close to religious weight, and for many it's
00:10:03a pilgrimage. Shani tells the story of how
00:10:06China was forged from ancient empires to the
00:10:10communist revolution. History here has often been
00:10:14shaped by conflict, but China has always faced
00:10:18another challenge, one fought not on the battlefield,
00:10:21but in the fields. China story. In so many
00:10:25ways has always been a story about food. For centuries,
00:10:29one the biggest challenges has been, how do you feed so many mouse with
00:10:33relatively little arable lamb? Today, China possesses
00:10:37roughly fith the world's population, yet less than a tenth of its
00:10:41arable land. So how do you feed more than billion people?
00:10:44Well, you need to grow more with less. From what
00:10:48I've seen,
00:10:49I think there's
00:10:49a good explanation to why food occupies such singular
00:10:53place in Chinese. Instead of how
00:10:57are you, the traditional greeting is,
00:11:01have you eaten yet? so that tells me meals aren't just
00:11:05meals, they're how people check in on each
00:11:07other, and there's an old saying that
00:11:11even better, food is heaven to
00:11:15the people, in many ways, it's a philosophy carved into
00:11:19the language itself, but
00:11:23turning that philosophy. has never been
00:11:26simple. China is a huge
00:11:29country. Look a map the world's pharmable land and the
00:11:33problem becomes obvious. Nearly half of
00:11:36China's mountains desert or land, either too
00:11:40dry or to coal to farm. The fertile strip
00:11:44where most people actually live, is a fraction the
00:11:48whole. Which raises an obvious question: how do
00:11:52you feed 1.4 billion people on that?
00:11:56One answer, make every hectare count. Nowhere is
00:12:00that more visible than in Loachuan County, few hours from
00:12:04Yanan, where hillsides that once grew modest orchards,
00:12:08have been turned into a sprawling laboratory for the plane
00:12:11apple. For more than decade, scientists here have
00:12:15been doing something farmers have done for centuries, crosperating
00:12:19trees for better fruit, but here's the catch: it's
00:12:23been done at industry. genetic scale, they've
00:12:27bread varieties that resist drought, dodge late frosts,
00:12:31and ripen sweeter, all while chasing a single
00:12:34goal, squeeze more food out of less land.
00:12:38leading that effort is Dr. Zoyangjun, director the
00:12:42Lochan Apple Experimental station. The fact the matter
00:12:46is that our planet's climate is changing, how are
00:12:50phenomena like drought and other extreme weather conditions
00:12:53affecting the... variety of apples that you're
00:12:56producing. Frost damage
00:13:00during flowering occurs in the an growing region almost every
00:13:04year. Severe frost damage can result in total crop
00:13:07failure. We use breathing methods to address the issue of
00:13:11frost damage during flowering. Most frost damage during flowering in the
00:13:15yan region occurs in early to mid
00:13:18April. Therefore, if we develop late blooming
00:13:21varieties that delay flowering by 10 to 15 days. "the
00:13:25flowering period will shift to late April, this way we can
00:13:29avoid frost damage during flowering, through breathing methods we
00:13:33can resolve the issue of frost damage during flowering caused by these
00:13:36climate anomalies in the industry. what
00:13:40type of specific technologies that are being developed
00:13:44here in the laboratories that are applicable
00:13:48to other commercial orchards across
00:13:50China. our country has national
00:13:54apple industry. technology system in place across the major apple
00:13:58producing regions, almost every region has a comprehensive
00:14:02experimental station, so for example, new varieties developed
00:14:06in luachan can first be planted at these experimental
00:14:09stations for regional trials. if they perform well at
00:14:13experimental stations in different regions, the regional experimental
00:14:17stations will then promote them to their local
00:14:19areas. breeding a better apple is
00:14:23only half the equation. the other half is getting it out
00:14:27the ground and increasingly that job doesn't require
00:14:31a person at all. autonomous
00:14:34sprayers now roll through these orchards on their own,
00:14:38watering and treating trees with a precision, no human arm
00:14:42can match. robotic diggers handle the heavy labor that
00:14:45once broke backs for generations. row by row,
00:14:49people are being quietly written off the production
00:14:53chain. oh, This machine can
00:14:57handle at least 33000 square meters of land per day
00:15:01with manual labor, the maximum area that can be separayed in
00:15:05a day is 6,700 square meter. Relatively
00:15:09speaking, this machine can cover 26,0 square
00:15:12meter more per day than a person can. It gets the job
00:15:16done quite quickly. In the past, when we sprayed
00:15:19pesticides, we would get up at 6 a.m. and still not finish
00:15:23spraying 6,007.
00:15:27Now we can cover about 3300 square meters a
00:15:31day and we are done early in the day, that's a real improvement in
00:15:35efficiency and time savings. the pesticide reaches
00:15:39the tops the apple trees and is applied very
00:15:41evenly, so after
00:15:45genetics, robotics and a small army of engineers,
00:15:49it's fair to say that Shani has the number of better
00:15:53apple, which
00:15:56feels like the right moment to borrow line from a certain Boston
00:16:00janitor and different Matt Damon movie
00:16:02entirely, well I got a
00:16:06number. How do you like
00:16:08them?
00:16:19The same technology, reshaping China's orchards through
00:16:22sensors, artificial intelligence in machines capable of
00:16:26impossibly precise movement, is also finding
00:16:30very different calling, not in the fields, but
00:16:34in hospitals and clinics, the fact... the matter is like
00:16:38most the developed world, China to is aging
00:16:42fast, and the math is unforgiving, more
00:16:46people needing care is even more alarming, but fewer
00:16:49specialists trained to give it. a single rehabilitation
00:16:53therapist can take five eight years to train, and
00:16:57patients don't have that kind of time. here in
00:17:01Shian a company called avic Chunchi thinks
00:17:04robots might close that gap, built on
00:17:37Aviation industry corporation of China focuses on robotics and artificial
00:17:41intelligence technologies. In our practical application, robots
00:17:45take over the execution of standardized training, data collection and status
00:17:48monitoring. Previously,
00:17:50a therapist could only accompany one patient through the entire set of exercises
00:17:54a time. Now they can manage multiple devices
00:17:57simultaneously. We are working to expand these services to
00:18:00communities, elderly care institutions and home
00:18:03settings. Today we can collect three-dimensional gate
00:18:07data. patients using high precision optical motion capture
00:18:10systems, capture muscle electrical signals in real time with
00:18:14surface electromography sensors, enhance patient engagement through virtual
00:18:18reality scenarios and then use artificial intelligence algorithms to
00:18:22continuously analyze the training
00:18:23data.
00:18:28In Shanci, robots are restoring movement to the human
00:18:31body, but their biggest impact may be on the move
00:18:34itself, transforming how the... cars of tomorrow are
00:18:38built, automation is quietly rewriting how China
00:18:42builds things for the rest the world. few companies
00:18:46illustrate that better than fast auto drive. founded in
00:18:50the 1960s, it's grown into China's largest maker of
00:18:54heavy duty transmissions, the unglamorous but
00:18:57essential parts that move trucks and buses. its
00:19:01story also has an American thread. since the
00:19:051980s, fast has partnered with with the US industrial
00:19:08giant Eaton, relationship that's outlasted four decades
00:19:12of shifting politics and trade wars. To
00:19:16understand how far that partnership has come, I sat down with Joo
00:19:20Jenlin, assistant to the general
00:19:22manager. New Energy
00:19:26is a core direction for global green development and a main
00:19:30track in the current automotive industry transformation,
00:19:34as critical core component of electric vehicles, The
00:19:38drive-train's performance directly determines the vehicle's power
00:19:41output, range and ride comfort. The
00:19:45transmission system in conventional fuel vehicles mainly
00:19:49matches the internal combustion engine's speed, output
00:19:53and enables stepped power regulation. Its
00:19:56structure is relatively heavy, and energy losses in the
00:20:00transmission chain are relatively high. In
00:20:03contrast, the new transmission system for new energy vehicles...
00:20:07must accommodate the wide speed range and different
00:20:11torque characteristics of electric motors. your
00:20:15factory in in Chian, it's it's described, it is a dark
00:20:19factory, which essentially means there's no electricity, there's no
00:20:23light in there uh, because there's a low number of humans are working there.
00:20:27do you feel that uh that dark factory model
00:20:31can be implemented here in
00:20:33vaugie?
00:20:37factory with fully automated equipment and unmanned
00:20:41logistics systems achieves 24-hour continuous
00:20:44production. This not only significantly reduces energy
00:20:48consumption per unit of product. but also removes the
00:20:51constraints of human work schedules on capacity
00:20:55release, further improving the delivery capability of
00:20:59core drive-train products and better responding to fluctuating
00:21:02market orders. the kind of unmanned production in
00:21:06all scenarios does not completely replace human
00:21:09roles, rather, it liberates industrial workers from
00:21:13repetitive physical assembly tasks and shifts them to more
00:21:17technology intensive positions such as
00:21:33shashi store has always been one of
00:21:36reinvention, today that reinvention is reaching
00:21:40its most ambitious form yet, some
00:21:43factories here have become so automated they barely need a
00:21:47person on the floor at all,
00:21:51what started in 1986 is a small manufacturing outfit
00:21:55didn't build its first car until
00:21:571997. today it's one of china's
00:22:01largest automakers and for the first half
00:22:04of this year it actually outsold its biggest rival
00:22:07byd for the number one spot in the
00:22:10country. lot of that ambition runs through this
00:22:14plant in baoji built in under the years spanning
00:22:18400,00 square. meters of factory floor, it now
00:22:22turns out more than 200 thousand vehicles
00:22:24annually. in the welding shop alone, more than
00:22:28400 robots work together to finish a car body
00:22:32every 90 seconds. i met with lachun jan, the
00:22:35plant's executive deputy general
00:22:37manager. currently more than
00:22:41400 robots are in operation in the welding shop with one
00:22:45vehicle rolling off the production line every 90 seconds.
00:22:49this highlight level of automation has fundamentally reshaped the way
00:22:53vehicles are manufactured here. robots can operate around the
00:22:57clock, significantly improving production efficiency. high
00:23:00precision welding, vision-based error proofing and 5G
00:23:04enabled inspection helps eliminate missed welds and
00:23:08defective welds, ensuring consistent body quality.
00:23:11repetitive tasks such as welding and material transfer are
00:23:15handled by machines, while employees are able to focus on
00:23:19equipment. operation and maintenance, process
00:23:22optimization and quality control. you have more than 80
00:23:26companies are supplying parts for this particular company, and they've all
00:23:30established branches in the region. talk to me about how Gili is
00:23:33playing role in establishing bauji and the general shi province
00:23:37as an automotive manufacturing
00:23:39hub. first, we're strengthening the
00:23:43local automotive industry chain. gi has established
00:23:47vehicle, power train and battery project. in the region,
00:23:50attracting, supporting suppliers and filling key gaps in
00:23:54core manufacturing capabilities. second, we're taking
00:23:58advantage the China Europe Railway Express and Shanchi's
00:24:01strategic geographical location to export vehicles
00:24:05manufactured in Bauji,
00:24:07to countries along the belt and road. Third, we're
00:24:10promoting greater coordination and capacity, sharing among
00:24:14production bases within Shanshi, while connecting them with Jili's
00:24:18manufacturing bases.
00:24:23After the tour, the best way to understand what J's engineers had
00:24:27built was to actually drive it around, so we climbed into a
00:24:30starray alongside J's Chen, goes by
00:24:34Kevin. This particular model, model, the uh, the
00:24:37Starray, uh, it's interesting a lot of respects, tell me
00:24:41why, well, GD Star is a long story, Jid Star is kind of a stop
00:24:45product, 10 years ago when Jelly is not that big as as
00:24:48today, um, the star product to really drive the gi
00:24:52um china sales volume to top player and right now
00:24:56um you star is another going to another level not only sales in China but we
00:25:00bring this product to um the markets outside china so very
00:25:03popular in in some uh jilly uh you know
00:25:07some some global monkeys as well um the numbers for this particular
00:25:10company is impressive I think for the first two months
00:25:14you exceeded uh the 800 pound gorillauh
00:25:17BYD that's uh it's a very... promising start this year,
00:25:21right? yeah, so actually um, not only two months, the first um half the
00:25:25year, the six months we achieve um 1.4
00:25:29million you know global sales in terms the GT auto group sales
00:25:32volumes, so it's a kind of momentum we already gain couple of
00:25:36months already and we want to keep keep it going, so uh in terms of
00:25:40our innovation, investment innovation, investment on the
00:25:43technology advancing, so we're quite quite confident that
00:25:47we can bring bring up the momentum not only in China b'. in global markets, so
00:25:51Kevin, just moment ago we were inside uh of a dark factory and you were kind
00:25:55enough to actually to open up the uh the lights uh,
00:25:59tell me what goes on a in in the dark factory side the...
00:26:02manufacturing, well as as you mentioned early, i think dark facturing juty
00:26:06is quite common and this b factory is a good example and a good
00:26:10representative, so normally when no visitors we just turn up the light
00:26:13and actually don't need and because because the high automation and
00:26:17all the robotic arms right deployed into the different production line and
00:26:21we're quite confident that um this kind of mechanism dark factory
00:26:25which means high automation is is is fully can satisfy
00:26:29our daily production needs the in history has a name
00:26:33for what Kevin's describing, a dark factory.
00:26:37These are production lines so automated, so precise. They
00:26:41could run for hours without a single person on the floor. In
00:26:45some sections, the lights don't even need to be switched on. For the simple
00:26:48reason being the machines don't need to see.
00:26:52Jeeli turned them today because we asked. Normally,
00:26:56this room runs in the total dark. We had a chance
00:27:00to uh witness.
00:27:03the different production phases in different plants or different
00:27:06areas the factory, some were fully robotic, some you
00:27:10had humans, um, this tells me that it it's
00:27:14still not a 100% robotic production model,
00:27:18but will it get there in the future? well, we as a car manufacturer,
00:27:22we always find the best solution for manufacturing cars, so this kind of set up
00:27:26to highly deploy our high robotic solution into our
00:27:30welding factory for example, and also deploy the certain number of the
00:27:34human employee into the final assembly line, which is i think is
00:27:37most efficient way under circumstances of current technology,
00:27:41world technology can can achieve, so in the future we also outlook
00:27:45that in some certain time period of time that we can achieve even higher
00:27:49automation period automation level, so we are we are quite confident that
00:27:53that they will come to very soon. what's one particular technology that
00:27:57really excites you about what's going on here at chilies
00:28:00plants? i think um for personally i would say
00:28:04sustainability, so if you visit out of factories will be all like
00:28:07machines, all like metal things, but jully you see all the trees, all the grass
00:28:11around, and we try to like sustainable it
00:28:14coexistent between our factory and and environment together surround
00:28:18it, so we we we don't want to do a disrupture of the environment, you
00:28:22know
00:28:22normally factor will be very very you know damaged to local environment, but we want to coexist
00:28:26it, not only that, but we also want to contribute to local climate, local
00:28:30um ecosystems.
00:28:32from terra cotta soldiers built on an assembly line more than 2,0 years
00:28:36ago to exhausted revolutionaries, ending a long march in
00:28:40these hills, Shanshi has never been a passive witness
00:28:44to Chinese history, it's helped write
00:28:47it. Today that story is being told in
00:28:51different language, sensors, algorithms and
00:28:55robotic arms. An orcherd in Luxan is bread to
00:28:58survive frost, it was never designed for a...
00:29:03is learning to walk again, guided by machines built from
00:29:07aerospace parts, and a factory floor in
00:29:10Bauji, a car rolls off the line every 90
00:29:14seconds, built by hands that increasingly
00:29:17aren't human hands at all. put it all together,
00:29:21enchanchi looks less like museum of china's past and
00:29:25more like rough draft of what's coming
00:29:28next.
00:29:34Shanshi has always been a place where China has reinvented
00:29:37itself, today it's happening again. Technology
00:29:41is moving to farms, production lines and the roads, as
00:29:45China looks for ways to feed its population, power its economy
00:29:49and build the factories of tomorrow. Shanchi's history tells
00:29:53us where China has come from, but the transformation that's happening
00:29:56now also offers us a glimpse of where it's
00:29:59heading. Well, that's it for this addition. Nexttech from
00:30:03Shanshi province in China, I'm Adijana and we'll see you
00:30:07next
00:30:29time, and one the world's largest cities ever.
00:30:32reports Andrew Hopkins is following the story
00:30:36from Ankara this Andrew Hopkins Andrew
00:30:39Andrew just taking through again what happened this
00:30:41morning
00:30:46well last there's 24 really hours been show
00:30:47two the incidents
00:30:47kind in the
00:30:52of
00:30:53Andrew is there any more information on the
00:30:55attack
00:30:58and I'm afraid I don't worry correspondence Andrew Hopkins.
00:31:03and will give us the latest on.