Machine in Place of Human Invigorates Ningbo s Industrial Drive

What is unfolding along long automated assembly lines is robots operating non-stop with one bearing assembled quickly. Bearing automated assembly lines requires only one employee from 20 in Ningbo Gengda Group Limited to achieve the automatic transmission, self-monitoring, online error report, thus greatly reducing product defects and increasing efficiency. On August 12, according to the Ningbo City Economic and Information Technology Commission, we are informed that from January to June, the citys industrial added value per ten thousand yuan declined 8 percent over the same period in 2013, the overall labor productivity grew by 8.7 percent.

As a traditional large manufacturing city, Ningbo industrial enterprises are surging in their automation. The first half of the citys industrial investment totaled 63.65 billion yuan, an increase of 24.1%, 4.1 percentage points higher than in the first quarter; where technical innovation investment totaled 44.97 billion yuan, an increase of 25.2%, with technical innovation investment accounting for 70.7% of the total industrial investment.

Machine in place of humans brings significant benefits. A responsible person from Amico said, it is a good deal to spend 25 million yuan for the automation of production line for plumbing fittings. At present, each process reaches two-thirds reduction in labor costs, and per capita sales revenue rises at from 10 percent to 25 percent year by year. According to Chen Xingliang, chairman of Starfish Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Ningbo Hi-tech Zone, Average each production line reduces 20 employee at work, if every employee earns 70,000 yuan per year, the automated production line can save 1.4 million yuan per year.

Machine bonus instead of demographic dividend, through automating the manufacturing process, making intelligent high-end manufacturing, increasing precision, , has become the surest way to the industrial transformation and upgrading of Ningbo. According to responsible persons from Ningbo City Economic and Information Technology Commission, Machine in place of humans is in full swing in Ningbo with a total investment of 1.52 billion yuan in the 62 substitution projects on the processing of being textile and clothing sector, appliance manufacturing, machining, stationery manufacturing, plastic products, etc. After completion, it is expected to add annual sales of 9.26 billion yuan, profits of 900 million yuan, taxes of 600 million yuan, earnings of $ 280 million.

In addition, policies that promote the increasing use of machine will be implemented for those with out-dated equipment and produce serious pollutions.

LINK:	http://en.nbwh.gov.cn/art/2014/8/15/art_1325_58408.html...
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