New energy vehicles are heading towards the world, and yarn is also taking the energy-saving path! Made in China Goes Green with Automobiles | New Energy | Global Yarn

Green development is a comprehensive and revolutionary transformation of production methods, lifestyles, ways of thinking, and values. To make the living environment more beautiful, the industrial structure lighter, and the development model greener, new energy and new technologies continue to stimulate new momentum in China today.

Adhering to the Green Dream, China's New Energy Vehicles Drive Global

China's production and sales of new energy vehicles have ranked first in the world for 8 consecutive years, with a global market share of over 60%. In the first five months of this year, the export of new energy vehicles at Shanghai Port increased by 152.9% year-on-year. Export routes are spread throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

CCTV reporter He Li: Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area Haitong Port is the largest automobile export port in China, and new energy vehicles will sail from here to the world.

In the first quarter of 2023, Shanghai Port exported 167000 electric passenger vehicles with a value of 38.73 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 60% of the country's export value and firmly ranking first in the country. A few years ago, it was also one of the largest automobile import ports in China.

Liu Jietao from the Operations Department of Haitong Port in Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area: Since the beginning of this year, our port has been operating at full capacity. The most common day I counted was over 9900 vehicles, with over 9900 vehicles exported alone. New energy accounts for almost half of it.

From the largest automobile import port in the country to the largest new energy vehicle export port in the country, what has changed is not only the direction of automobile import and export, but also the determination of China's automobile industry to move towards "green". In the first quarter of this year, China's new energy vehicle exports amounted to 9.55 billion US dollars, accounting for 44.7% of the total automobile exports. Today, electric passenger vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells have become the "new three types" of China's foreign trade exports. The strong momentum of China's new energy vehicles going global is supported by new energy vehicle production enterprises throughout the country. As of now, there are over 700000 new energy vehicle related enterprises in China, with 239400 newly added in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 40.34%, which can be described as a leapfrog growth.

CCTV reporter Li Jingjing: There is also a leapfrog growth in the production of new energy vehicles. In 2022, the production of new energy vehicles in China exceeded 7 million, and this year this number will undoubtedly be refreshed. China's production and sales of new energy vehicles have ranked first in the world for 8 consecutive years, and the key to creating this record lies in the intelligent chemical factories of new energy vehicles.

Walking into a new energy vehicle assembly workshop located in Changzhou, Jiangsu, hundreds of industrial robots are intricately cooperating, with mechanical arms dancing non-stop. In addition to traditional automation applications, there are also invisible AI visual algorithms and process big data quality warning systems that control every aspect of the production line.

In February 2022, the cumulative production of new energy vehicles in China exceeded 10 million units; And it only took 17 months to reach the milestone of producing 20 million vehicles in July this year. Behind this is the dual support of policy and market, as well as the joint support of technology and system. From following to leading, it is not only technology, but also the green development concept rooted in the depths of one's heart.

The energy-saving path of a single yarn

Emerging industries are constantly growing, and traditional production methods are also constantly upgrading and transforming. The "green content" continuously enhances the "gold content" of economic development. Next, follow the reporter into a cotton yarn factory to see the energy-saving path of a single yarn.

CCTV reporter Zheng Yizhe: For combed cotton yarn used in clothing, from cotton planting and ginning, to processing into coarse and fine yarn, and then to finished product transportation and storage, the carbon footprint value of 1 kilogram of cotton yarn is only about 4 kilograms of carbon dioxide. On this yarn with a diameter of less than 0.1 millimeters, it is necessary to meet indicators such as strength, breathability, and comfort, while also considering energy conservation, environmental protection, and carbon emissions. To achieve such a great success in this fine yarn, it is inseparable from the high-quality development of enterprises and the support of technology.

In the fine yarn workshop of Shandong Weiqiao Textile Green Intelligent Third Factory, 62 huge fine yarn machines are running at full speed. On each machine, more than 1800 snow-white yarn spindles are arranged in a row like piano keys, pulling out strands of yarn as thin as hair. Occasionally, if there is a broken wire, a red light will flash on the machine to remind the on duty worker to continue connecting the yarn spindle.

Zhang Jing from Shandong Weiqiao Textile Green Intelligent Third Factory Fine Yarn Workshop: We have a sensor on each fine yarn spindle, which can transmit all problems on the spindle to an intelligent platform. The mechanic arrived at the scene within one minute to resolve the issue.

In the past, occasional disconnections in the production process required manual inspection one by one according to the route, during which the equipment could only be in an idle state, which was labor-intensive and electricity intensive. Through technological transformation, the wiring of spinning spindles can reduce energy waste by 90%.

Energy saving, not rejecting the slightest bit. There are many green management applications like this, for example, the workshop can accurately control temperature and humidity according to production requirements, which can save 15% of electrical power consumption. Using 150000 sensors for quality inspection to replace traditional manual sampling, saving tens of thousands of meters of sampled yarn per shift.

Zhang Yuqing, General Manager of Shandong Weiqiao Textile Hongru Company: With stable quality, defects are reduced, and costs and waste are reduced. By upgrading the entire intelligent equipment, the overall production efficiency has been improved by more than 30% and energy consumption has been reduced by more than 35%.

China is the world's largest textile producing country, which is different from the crowded scene in our traditional impression of textile factories. Today, walking in the workshop, it is hard to imagine that this place was once a high energy consuming, high pollution, and labor-intensive enterprise. In recent years, many industries have relied on automation and intelligent equipment to apply technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data to production and manufacturing, successfully creating intelligent, digital, and futuristic super factories. Green production is the future direction of China's manufacturing industry.