A panoramic study of China’s precast construction industry: rise, dilemma, and future
The construction industry is one of the pillar industries of China’s national economy, with a long-term added value accounting for about 7% of GDP and over 50 million employees.
However, this massive industry has long relied on the extensive mode of “human wave tactics” and on-site wet operations, resulting in slow growth in labor productivity, huge consumption of resources and energy, insufficient consistency in building quality, and frequent construction safety accidents.
Under the multiple pressures of declining demographic dividend, advancing the “dual carbon” strategy, and high-quality development transformation, promoting the transformation of the construction industry from traditional manual workshop production to factory and industrialization has become an irreversible proposition of the times.
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