FILE: Shanghai, China - Oct 2021 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of robotic arms working in factory, workers

FILE: Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, south China - 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
2. Various of drones taking off, in air

Dalian City, Liaoning Province, northeast China - June 23, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kiva Allgood, managing director of World Economic Forum (partially overlaid with shot 4):
"Well, I think with human-machine collaboration, it is all about that title and that concept, that the humans and the machines, they need to collaborate, they need to work together. And when we see that in action, we just announced the new cohort of Global Lighthouse Network winners. At the heart of that, 100 percent of those are using AI, but they're also putting in frameworks that allowed the talent and the knowledge and the insights on the factory floor or in the distribution center to be brought into those agents, right? They're not being done in a vacuum, they're being done with decades of insight and information. That's probably, I think, the biggest transformation. This isn't a technology evolution, it is a technology-plus-human evolution and really understanding how do you combine skills, how someone who may have done one job one day, now they've gained all these new skills and they can do that job plus two, three, four others. That really allow them to be a robot operator, to manage a fleet of robots or a fleet of drones. It really transforms the way they work."

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FILE: Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, south China - 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of drones in plant, undergoing tests; workers
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FILE: China - Exact Location and Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. Robots in plant

Dalian City, Liaoning Province, northeast China - June 23, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kiva Allgood, managing director of World Economic Forum:
"There has been a core investment in something we call intelligent infrastructure. So that's the combination of traditional infrastructure plus digital infrastructure plus the human capability, piece of it. It's the educating, it's the training, it's inspiring young people to want to work and to build things with their hands. So for us, the Global Lighthouse Network, it's a prestigious place to be. There's only 238 of them in the globe, out of 10 million. And a lot of those are in China. And they're here because of that investment that has been made into that intelligent infrastructure."

Hefei City, Anhui Province, east China - Nov-Dec 2023 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of manufacturing center of Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer NIO, equipment operating

Human-machine collaboration is reshaping global manufacturing and supply chains, said Kiva Allgood, managing director of the World Economic Forum (WEF), on Tuesday, also praising China's long-term investment in "intelligent infrastructure".

Allgood said that in an interview on the sidelines of the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions, or the Summer Davos, in northeast China's coastal city of Dalian.

The World Economic Forum on Tuesday launched the Human-Machine Collaboration Framework, a new comprehensive guide to help companies, governments and educators prepare the workforce for the age of intelligent operations, working together with AI and other frontier technologies. The framework maps more than 80 jobs across manufacturing and supply chains, showing how jobs, tasks and skills are expected to evolve as intelligent operations become more widespread.

"While 86 percent of employers expect AI and information-processing technologies to transform their businesses by 2030, 63 percent identify skills gaps as the biggest barrier to transformation," said the WEF in its webside, noting "evidence from the Forum's Global Lighthouse Network shows that workforce readiness is already becoming a competitive differentiator, with leading sites investing in human-machine collaboration, digital skills and new ways of working to improve performance."

"Well, I think with human-machine collaboration, it is all about that title and that concept, that the humans and the machines, they need to collaborate, they need to work together. And when we see that in action, we just announced the new cohort of Global Lighthouse Network winners. At the heart of that, 100 percent of those are using AI, but they're also putting in frameworks that allowed the talent and the knowledge and the insights on the factory floor or in the distribution center to be brought into those agents, right? They're not being done in a vacuum, they're being done with decades of insight and information. That's probably, I think, the biggest transformation. This isn't a technology evolution, it is a technology-plus-human evolution and really understanding how do you combine skills, how someone who may have done one job one day, now they've gained all these new skills and they can do that job plus two, three, four others. That really allow them to be a robot operator, to manage a fleet of robots or a fleet of drones. It really transforms the way they work," said Allgood.

The Global Lighthouse Network awards and showcases the leaders in the field of technology-driven industrial transformation and provides a neutral platform for these leaders to share their insights and learnings to help the whole ecosystem reach the next level of transformation, according to the WEF.

China's manufacturing ecosystem features long-term investment in "intelligent infrastructure", which is a key factor behind the country's strong presence in the WEF's Global Lighthouse Network, said the WEF managing director.

"There has been a core investment in something we call intelligent infrastructure. So that's the combination of traditional infrastructure plus digital infrastructure plus the human capability piece of it. It's the educating, it's the training, it's inspiring young people to want to work and to build things with their hands. So for us, the Global Lighthouse Network, it's a prestigious place to be. There's only 238 of them in the globe, out of 10 million. And a lot of those are in China. And they're here because of that investment that has been made into that intelligent infrastructure," Allgood said.

Featuring the theme "Innovating at Scale", the 17th Summer Davos, held from Tuesday to Thursday, is gathering over 1,700 participants from over 90 countries and regions to discuss topics including the next phase of China's economic trajectory and how to translate technological advances into real economic benefits.