{"id":9366,"date":"2026-05-13T02:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:48:24","slug":"as-trump-visits-china-will-he-seek-investment-to-build-american-dark-factories-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=9366","title":{"rendered":"As Trump visits China, will he seek investment to build American &#8220;dark factories&#8221; of the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Zhuhai, southern China<\/em> \u2014 When President Trump arrives in China this week for a <span class=\"link\">high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping<\/span>, securing investment from Chinese companies \u2014 including to help modern American factories \u2014 is expected to be on his list of priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But if Mr. Trump is hoping to secure investment to help bring blue-collar jobs back to America, a CBS News visit to a massive Chinese factory suggests that ship may have sailed.<\/p>\n<p>Inside a cavernous industrial building on the outskirts of Zhuhai, in southern China, there&#8217;s a factory of the future. Hundreds of yellow robotic arms move in sync along a 1,500-foot assembly line, putting together some 4,000 components every 10 seconds for air conditioning units.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by Gree, China&#8217;s largest air conditioning maker, the facility is what&#8217;s known as a &#8220;dark factory.&#8221; It operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, controlled by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Gree general manager Chen Huadong says it&#8217;s the future of manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is how future intelligent factories will look like, with AI-supported robots everywhere,&#8221; he told CBS News, &#8220;working in real time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the nerve center of the operation, giant screens show real-time data on production, global sales and delivery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 60% of Gree&#8217;s production is exported overseas, including significant sales in North America.<\/p>\n<p>The company has even been advertising in Times Square.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>China already accounts for roughly 30% of global manufacturing output overall, and that&#8217;s expected to rise to almost 50% over the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chen, Chinese manufacturing has more to offer Western markets than products, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gree is not only capable of manufacturing high-quality air conditioners, but also high-quality factories,&#8221; he told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>A factory the size of Gree&#8217;s would typically employ around 10,000 workers. But the dark factory only needs 1,000, a third of whom are engineers. It is real-world evidence of the dramatic rate at which machines are replacing humans in the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think in the future, physical work will get less and less,&#8221; Chen told CBS News. &#8220;But the skills and workers to maintain AI equipment will grow. \u2026 artificial intelligence has transformed the way businesses operate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chen&#8217;s assessment is that factories around the world will move &#8220;toward high levels of automation,&#8221; with robots doing more and more of the work, but &#8220;as a result, future production lines will require a large number of engineers to design, plan, install, inspect and maintain them. 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