Mr.Yan extended his warm welcome to their visit, and then introduced the development and status of smart manufacturing of Yangtze Company. Mr. Yan said, adhering to the strategic goal of "To be the world's No.1 and leader of the industry", Yangtze Company has made great efforts in the full industrial chain, the multi-process route, internationalization, diversity and intelligent manufacturing. As a result, the company's businesses made steady growth and some achievements have been made. Meanwhile, since its corporation, Yangtze Company has been focusing on intelligence and information-based manufacturing. In recent years, it put more efforts to adapt to the changes of the industry, implementing information-based management in field control, executive control and decision-making. The level of intelligence and information-based manufacturing of Yangtze have been constantly improved. After hearing that key equipment for the production of preforms and optical fibres has been made by the company on its own, Mr. Zhang gave high praise for it.

The employees of Yangtze Company showed Mr. Zhang and his entourages around the production plants producing and testing preforms and optical fibres. He highly praised the manufacturing process of optical fibres from core rod to preforms and high speed wiredrawing. When they saw AGV cars, smart robots of Yangtze Company, they greatly praised the level of smart manufacturing of Yangtze Company. Mr. Yan said, on the basis of being a national smart manufacturing pilot enterprise platform model, Yangtze Company will improve the level of smart manufacturing, establish smart plants, and set up a full set of smart plant solutions for the optical cable and fibre industry, pushing China's optical cable and fibre industry from "Made in China" to "Intelligently Made in China".