“Now we just run the simulation on a computer instead of troubleshooting on site,” he says.
In Foshan and across China’s factory belt, he’s become exactly the kind of worker the national retraining system is trying to produce: upskilled, ambitious, and still standing in an industry rapidly shedding older roles. Chen now manages full robot integration projects — work that once required specialists — at a company that helps manufacturers deploy and maintain automated production lines.
