Four production workshops, a canteen, experiment building, and two dormitories at Gree Electric Appliances Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park will come into operation in August at Sanxi Technology & Innovation Town.

Three steel-structure workshops have been topped off and work is continuing on interior utilities, infrastructure, and auxiliary rooms, says Shen Xiandong, general manager of Zhuhai Gree Intelligent Equipment.

At full capacity by the end of the year, the park will have an estimated annual output value of 1.6 billion yuan ($251 million). The intelligent-equipment headquarters will integrate R&D and the production of industrial robots, automation devices, numerically controlled machine tools, and "smart" storage and logistics equipment.

Interior utility construction [Photo by Zhao Zi / Zhuhai Daily]

The second phase will have two production workshops and two auxiliary rooms, while the third will have one production workshop. In all, the 172,000-sqm (43-acre) industrial park will cost 854 million yuan ($134 million) and have floorage of 249,000 sqm (62 acres).

In addition to a green development philosophy, the park will rely on intelligentized, automated, and lean technologies for high efficiency.

Gree's park is located east of National Expressway G105 (Gudu Avenue) in Shangchong of Qianshan. Sanxi Technology & Innovation Town encompasses Lixi, Fuxi, Nanxi, and Jiechong old villages, Shanxing Industrial Zone, and the former Qianshan Commerce & Trade Logistics Park.

Sanxi is an essential part of Xiangzhou District's plans to renovate and upgrade old industrial zones. Expected to become an aggregate zone of industrial operators and large-firm headquarters, it will focus on high-end intelligent manufacturing, new-generation electronic information, and headquarters and digital economy.