A geospatial engineering major, the 30-year-old joined China Wu Yi in 2017 to work at the precast building materials factory and has risen through the ranks to become an assistant manager at the firm.

The introduction of remote mining technology has now transformed excavating-machine operators from "black-collar" to "white-collar" workers, allowing them to bid farewell to dusty work environments.

Specifically, a total of 1,149 listed companies disclosed such reports in 2023, up 3.6 percentage points from a year earlier.

Weckesser made the comments during his recent visit to Shanghai to attend the four-day 2024 World AI Conference.

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