Dott. Orikron 🇵🇹
@orikron
On a mission to bridge both sides of the Great Firewall 🇨🇳 My focus is on industry 4.0, robotics, urbanism and transport.
🇨🇳 This is one of China's Lights Out Factories. Due to the advance of automation, there were no more humans working in the assembly lines, only machines, so they just turned the lights off.
🇨🇳 China met its 5-year plan target and now has 48,000km of high-speed rail. 🌏 That's 70% of all HSR globally and enough to wrap around the entire planet with 8000km to spare. 🚅 They plan to reach 75,000km by 2035 and make sure no region is left unserviced.
🇨🇳 New estimates suggest chipmakers in Mainland China will surpass Taiwan's by 2030 and will be producing 30% of the world's chips. This is the last major technological edge that the American-aligned powers have against China.
Once these things have good AI integrated, we're gonna have robot friends [servants] running around doing errands and chores everywhere for us. Well, at least the Chinese will.
Uncle Bot update! POV: You *are* Uncle Bot running around your residential neighborhood in Xi'An. You go to the nearest store to pick up a package for your human.
📰 I highly recommend taking a look at Shen's reprinting of Wang Lei's article if you're interested in the Yarlung-Zangpo dam project. Main points: 1. The Yarlung-Zangpo dam(s) will take advantage of a massive natural drop in altitude, which produces a lot of energy. 2. This…
Check out the latest of my newsletter the China Briefing⬇️ Why and how China will develop the mega project of Yarlung Zangbo Hydropower Project, and what it really means for neighbours? A worth reading op-ed from Wang Lei(王雷), Chargé d’Affaires at China’s Embassy in India,…
China's "overcapacity" at work.
NEW – Analysis: China’s clean-energy exports in 2024 alone will cut overseas CO2 by 1% | @laurimyllyvirta Read here: buff.ly/V7BVSsL
Uncle Bot update! POV: You *are* Uncle Bot running around your residential neighborhood in Xi'An. You go to the nearest store to pick up a package for your human.
Uncle Bot update: his own origins are a mystery to him but he's recently cultivated a passion for history! Here's his day trip to a museum in Xi'An.
China has sold off over half of its US treasury bonds. Dedollarization in progress. China kept the US solvent in 2008. It won't happen when the next big crisis hits.
📦🇨🇳 Unmanned delivery vehicles are everywhere in China now. They even deliver to small rural villages. If there's a road, there's a way. This netizen followed one around for a while.
🇨🇳 Nobody escapes the Wa's Mud Festival! Every summer, in Yunnan Province, crowds of Wa people gather to splash each other with mud, followed by a water fight! More mud = better fortune. Tourists can join in if they want but the police don't have a choice 😆
🇨🇳 🍉 A farmer named Xie Zhenjiang won China's 37th yearly watermelon-growing contest. Weighing in at nearly 98kgs (215lbs), Xie's watermelon is somewhat heavier than the average American male!