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Honor's smartphone factory is impressively hi-tech

Honor's Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park in Shenzhen shows just how difficult it is to start from scratch.

Apr 23, 2025
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Credit: Honor

When most of us think of smartphones made in China, we probably imagine dozens of factory workers sitting in a line, deftly inserting components. But as I found out after a visit to Honor’s Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park in Shenzhen, barely any humans are involved these days.

Instead, I saw rows and rows of automated assembly mach…

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