China embraces smarter 'Made in China'

CHANGSHA - In the workshops of Hunan Mendale Household Textiles Co Ltd, intelligent production lines process piles of raw materials like cotton, and three minutes later, a quilt is made.

The company started to run intelligent production lines in March 2018, which have improved the company's productivity by more than 30 percent and reduced costs by more than 25 percent, said a corporate source.

By June 2019, the company plans to upgrade and digitalize its supply chains, visualize data and information of logistics, to create smart factories covering production and management.