A group of female engineers contributed to the success of China's show at the closing ceremony of Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, which perfectly combined traditional Chinese culture and artificial intelligence.
It was the first such large-scale performance of mobile robots in the world and showed a science-oriented and rapidly developed China.
All these 24 robots in the show were created in Shenyang Siasun Robot Automation Limited Company, in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
The production team of 4,000 engineers, including a lot of female workers, created the core competitiveness for the company.
The women played an important role in many fields, including intellectual logistics, mechanical design and software development.
"We are so exited about our success," Che Fei, vice chief engineer who had been participating in the program, said cheerfully whenever asked about the event after the Olympics.
She said they were honored to use their products to show China's scientific technological strength to the world.
There was a lot of hard work and persistence behind the success.
"We took the task because we are competent," Che said.
Another kind of robot, AGV mobile robots from Siasun, has been a new beginning for China to export robots rather than simply import. Che took the lead in designing the products for the first order from abroad.
Che designed the bones and the appearance for the robot, and Hao Yige, the BG software engineer, gave the robots their "brains".
During 10 years of software development, Hao has experienced numerous failures.
"The company's culture of allowing employees to 'make mistakes' laid the foundation for workers to persist in independent innovation," she said.
Thanks to her diligence and unyielding spirit, Hao has solved dozens of technical problems, improving the robots control from a single system to a multifunctional software system.
"The company will provide support as long as you are on the right direction," the BG General Engineer Huang Xingyun said.
Huang joined the company at its beginning in 1999 and deeply understood its trust and focus on talents.
Under the rigorous scientific research atmosphere and decentralized management model, Siasun provides each female employee the fertile ground and platform to grow.
Moreover, the "Female professional career development project" and "Pregnancy rest plan" solve women workers’ worries.
"There is no gender difference in talent training in the corporation, although women account for only 10 percent of all staff," Ha Enjing, who is now a manager, said.
Under the support of the company, she has achieved her leap forward from technical post to brand promotion over the past 16 years.
There are 16 female deputy chief engineers, 12 middle-level managers, and 163 senior engineers and core development workers in Siasun.
"We are standing at the same starting point as our male employees in the field of scientific research," a female technical expert said firmly, "and we are willing to work hard and contribute our strength to the development of science and technology."