Driverless taxis are a common sight(常见的景象) in Chinese cities these days. So, increasingly, are delivery drones. But to see one of the heaviest autonomous machines ever deployed, head to the grasslands in China’s far north-east, to the Yimin coal mine, a giant hole in the earth spanning 42 square kilometres.(但要见识最重的自主机器之一，需前往中国东北的伊敏煤矿。) Travel to the bottom and you will find around 100 lorries(卡车（英式）) each capable of carrying 90 tonnes(吨（公吨）) of coal—without a human in sight. Large black boxes filled with batteries sit where the driver’s cabins(驾驶室，舱) should be.
如今，无人驾驶出租车在中国城市已屡见不鲜。送货无人机也日益普及。但要见识有史以来最重的自主机器之一，需前往中国东北部的草原，来到伊敏煤矿——一个占地42平方公里的巨大地坑。下到坑底，你会发现约100辆卡车，每辆可载90吨煤，却不见人影。原本应是驾驶室的位置，如今装着装满电池的大黑箱。
Zhao Yaozhong, a manager at Huaneng, the state-owned power utility that operates Yimin, says the deployment(部署，调度) of driverless lorries has led to(导致，引起) 120 workers being reassigned(被重新分配) to posts outside the pit(矿坑，深坑)—thus removing(从而移除) them from the dust and danger of the mine. The vehicles also do far more work without a human driver. They run through the night and in poor weather conditions, and even change their own batteries. If all goes to plan(如果一切按计划进行), most humans will disappear(消失，不见) from the pit over the next three years as another 300 autonomous lorries are added.
华能集团（运营伊敏煤矿的国有电力公司）的经理赵耀忠表示，无人驾驶卡车的部署已导致120名工人被调往矿坑外的岗位，从而远离矿区的粉尘和危险。这些车辆在没有人类驾驶员的情况下也能完成更多工作。它们夜间运行，在恶劣天气下工作，甚至能自行更换电池。如果一切按计划进行，随着另外300辆自动驾驶卡车投入使用，未来三年内，矿坑中的大部分人类将消失。
The operation at Yimin offers a glimpse into(让人一窥) the expanding(扩张中的) “enterprise” division(部门，分部) of Huawei, a Chinese technology giant better known for its telecoms equipment and consumer electronics. In 2021 Huawei, whose core business had been hit hard by American sanctions, announced that this division would create a collection of new teams—referred to as juntuan (Chinese for army corps)—that would focus on applying expertise and technology from across the business to specific groups of enterprise customers, from airport operators to oil-and-gas companies.(2021年，受制裁重创的华为宣布组建“军团”，专注服务特定企业客户。)
伊敏煤矿的运营让人得以一窥华为不断扩张的“企业”部门。华为是中国科技巨头，以电信设备和消费电子产品闻名。2021年，核心业务遭受美国制裁重创的华为宣布，该部门将组建一系列新团队——称为“军团”——专注于将整个公司的专业知识和技术应用于特定企业客户群体，从机场运营商到油气公司。