Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture · Industrial Robot Technology Services

Liangshan's industry began with the Xichang iron and steel base. At the CPC Central Committee's Chengdu meeting in March 1958, it was decided to build a large steel plant using Panzhihua's vanadium–titanium magnetite, and the Sichuan Provincial Committee resolved to "build Xichang with the two rivers as dowry and the whole province in support." On August 7, 1958, the Xichang Iron and Steel Company of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry was founded (predecessor of Plant 410); in September 1964, Company 40 was prepared on that basis as a pilot base for smelting vanadium–titanium magnetite, was transferred to Xichang Prefecture in 1970, and was restructured into the Xichang New Steel Industry Group in 2001. During Third Front construction, Liangshan and Xichang Prefecture were tasked mainly with supporting the Panzhihua steel base and the Chengdu–Kunming Railway (opened July 1, 1970, with the celebration held at Xichang Railway Station). Key projects in the territory included the Luguo iron mine, the Huili nickel mine, Qingshan Airport (completed and trial-operated in 1975), the Mofanggou power station, and the Xichang Satellite Launch Center (construction began in 1970, completed in 1982; on June 8, 1984 it successfully launched China's first geosynchronous-orbit satellite). In 1978 the prefecture's gross industrial output was only 280 million yuan. Afterwards, Phase 1 of the Xichang Cigarette Factory was completed in November 1985 (200,000 cases a year); during the Seventh Five-Year Plan, Phase 1 of the Liangshan Steel Plant, the zinc smelter, the Naito Cement Plant, the Xichang Silk Mill, the Laqing power station and the Songxin Sugar Plant were built; and in 2003 the secondary industry's share of GDP surpassed the primary and tertiary industries for the first time.

In 2025, Liangshan Prefecture's GDP reached 260.575 billion yuan, up 5.6%. Industrial value added was 77.697 billion yuan, up 6.2%. There were 464 above-scale industrial enterprises, and above-scale industrial value added grew 6.9%. By category, mining grew 18.1%, manufacturing 15.1%, and electricity, heat, gas and water production and supply fell 0.3%. Output grew in 22 of 30 major industry categories; the top three gainers were computer, communications and other electronic equipment manufacturing (162.8%), leather, fur, feather and related products and footwear (127.1%), and metal products (118.6%). Among key industries, equipment manufacturing grew 46.1%, advanced materials 18.9%, vanadium–titanium and rare earths 16.9%, agricultural product processing 12.6%, and nonferrous metals 10.8%, while clean energy fell 0.3%. Among major products, raw iron ore reached 29.637 million tons (up 35.3%), copper content in copper concentrate 65,000 tons (up 124.1%), phosphate ore 6.818 million tons (up 21.2%), electricity generation 142.79 billion kWh (down 4.1%), steel 4.982 million tons, and cement 8.242 million tons. Above-scale industrial enterprises recorded operating revenue of 133.71 billion yuan, down 1.4%, and total profit of 20.68 billion yuan, down 1.3%, an operating-revenue profit margin of 15.5%. Xichang is building a "3+1" system of vanadium–titanium new materials, aerospace, medicine and food, and the digital economy; high-tech industry output now exceeds 40% of industrial output.

Liangshan's automation retrofits center on the Xichang Vanadium–Titanium Industrial Park, making it one of the more intelligent regions for process industry in the province. Pangang Group Xichang Steel & Vanadium was selected in 2025 for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's first batch of "excellent-level" smart factories (only 18 steel enterprises nationwide). Built around five links and 11 scenarios with a cumulative investment of 390 million yuan, a 5G network connects 1,200 pieces of workshop equipment; the blast furnace utilization coefficient rose 15%, and the accuracy of surface-defect detection for steel coils improved from 85% to 99%. In the plate mill's cold-zone post-rolling warehouse, six large overhead cranes began unmanned operation with a supporting smart warehouse-management system, laying the groundwork for a "lights-out factory"; at the testing and metering center, intelligent manipulators and robots for chemical analysis of hot metal, steel and slag replaced manual assaying, and robots in the hot-rolling workshop handle unpacking and labeling. On the mining side, Chonggang Xichang Mining's "smart mining 5G factory" was listed in the national 5G factory directory in September 2025 (Liangshan's first); six unmanned electric mining trucks carry 65% of raw-ore transport with a zero-accident record, working alongside remote-controlled electric shovels and drill rigs. In biopharmaceuticals, Haoyisheng Panxi Pharmaceutical invested more than 800 million yuan in a new digital smart factory with 452 high-end machines and a 98% automation rate across production lines; filling rose from 30,000 bottles a day by hand to 50,000 bottles an hour by machine. No authoritative statistics on Liangshan's industrial-robot holdings, annual new installations or robot density have been found through public channels (to be verified).