From Pen-and-Paper to AI in Two Generations – The Wire China

Illustration by Luis Grañena Guo Ruize is a dutiful son. After graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering in 2016, Guo joined his father’s laser-cutting factory in the northeastern city of Shenyang. At the time, factory management was largely paper-based. A clipboard hung on a workshop wall. Managers would grab it to scribble handwritten changes to the production schedule as new orders came in. The factory cuts various materials into sheets for clients across a range of industries. Every day brought a new co Subscribe or login to read the rest. Subscribers get full access to: Exclusive longform investigative journalism, Q&As, news and analysis, and data on Chinese business elites and corporations. We publish China scoops you won’t find anywhere else. A weekly curated reading list on China from Andrew Peaple. A daily roundup of China finance, business and economics headlines. We offer discounts for groups, institutions and students. Go to our Subscriptions page for details. Includes images from Depositphotos.com Cover Story Zhu Rongji’s “Big Move” How did the late premier convince local governments to surrender fiscal revenues to Beijing? In an extract from his recent book, Authoritarian Markets, Adam Y. Liu explains how Zhu played his trump card —
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