New infrastructure is accelerating the layout, and smart mines are the undervalued gold mountain

2.3 People and people: "saving expenditure + increasing income" encourages enterprises to increase intelligent investment

From the cost point of view, the underground operation environment of coal enterprises is bad, it is more and more difficult to recruit workers, and the labor cost shows an upward trend. The number of people in China's coal mining washing industry dropped from 5.2719 million in 2010 to 2.8468 million in 2019, a decrease of 46%.

Coal companies are facing a serious aging workforce, with the average age of underground operators in some companies exceeding 45 years old, making it difficult for companies to attract a new generation of young people.

The transformation of intelligent coal enterprises can realize the reduction of workers and improvement of efficiency in the driving face, the few people or unmanned operation in the fully mechanized mining face, the unattended and remote monitoring of fixed positions in underground and open-pit coal mines, effectively reducing the personnel needs of coal enterprises and reducing labor costs.