China's New Mining System Is Shocking the Entire Industry

In 2002, official filings recorded 6,995 coal miner deaths in China, about 19 every day. Today a longwall face that once needed 25 miners per shift runs with just 5 people on a private 5G network. Huawei's Ren Zhengfei launched the mining lab in Taiyuan on February 9, 2021. 🔥 What's inside: • The face: crew cut by 80 percent, output per miner up over 300 percent • The network: explosion-proof 5G base stations every 100 metres • The shearer: 800 tonnes of coal per hour, cutting 20 hours a day • Cold wave: the Hongliulin mine ran 48 days at full capacity • The limit: only about 1,000 of 4,000 mines can afford full 5G systems • Retrofit cost: 100 to 500 million yuan, or 14 to 70 million dollars 📌 Subscribe for more China engineering stories. #china #mining #coalmining #5g #automation #smartmining #huawei #heavyindustry #engineering #engineeringdocumentary