Editor's Note:
When you place an order on e-commerce platforms, farmers in Zigui County, Central China's Hubei Province, swiftly pick navel oranges from trees and utilize drones to transport them to nearby highways. The oranges then journey to a smart logistics warehouse in Zigui, where fully automated robotic arms load and unload them. Within this facility, smart production lines wash, dry, and sort the oranges using an AI detection system. This system not only categorizes oranges based on size but also measures sugar content and water content. Zigui County, renowned as the "hometown of Chinese navel oranges," boasts a rich history of orange cultivation spanning over 2000 years. Today, its annual orange output stands at an impressive 700,000 tons, thanks to cutting-edge agricultural technologies that have streamlined the planting, transporting, and sorting of oranges. The modernization of the orange industrial chain has helped lift Zigu out of poverty since 2019. (Photos: Chen Tao/GT)
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