Hunan banks on intelligent manufacturing

In a factory of Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd, China's leading machinery equipment maker, robots are working alongside human workers.

In an orderly, accurate and efficient manner, they are producing concrete pump trucks that will be used to build the world's tallest skyscrapers.

Smart factories like this are nothing new in Central China's Hunan province. Over the past few decades, it has been leveraging intelligent manufacturing for industrial upgrading as well as high-quality economic development.