{"id":123156,"date":"2021-05-28T23:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/why-fewer-humans-are-working-on-chinas-assembly-lines"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T06:22:39","slug":"why-fewer-humans-are-working-on-chinas-assembly-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/why-fewer-humans-are-working-on-chinas-assembly-lines","title":{"rendered":"Why fewer humans are working on China\u2019s assembly lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-fewer-humans-are-working-on-chinas-assembly-lines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amid the rapid digitalisation of China\u2019s economy, the second-biggest in the world, Midea\u2019s factory represents a snapshot of the future \u2013 one in which manufacturing processes and employees need to adapt to increased automation and machine-driven learning.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Machines are increasingly taking over China\u2019s assembly lines as manufacturers upgrade and prepare for fewer, higher-skilled workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the rapid digitalisation of China\u2019s economy, the second-biggest in the world, Midea\u2019s factory represents a snapshot of the future \u2013 one in which manufacturing processes and employees need to adapt to increased automation and machine-driven learning. Machines are increasingly taking over China\u2019s assembly lines as manufacturers upgrade and prepare for fewer, higher-skilled workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}