In the traditional understanding of blasting operations, "danger" and "enclosure" are almost equated. However, with the deep transformation of traditional industrial systems by cutting-edge technologies, the operation mode of the civil explosive industry is undergoing fundamental changes: machines are beginning to replace manual charging at the forefront of drilling and charging, drones and artificial intelligence models are making blasting precise and controllable, and the infrastructure construction boom is driving China's civil explosive solutions across the ocean. The civilian explosive industry is bidding farewell to the rigid old label of "extensive labor" and accelerating towards a new path of unmanned, intelligent, and international development.

1、 Drilling rig stunt double: intelligent machinery completely rewrites high-risk operation rules

In the past, drilling in mines was a job that relied heavily on physical strength and experience. Workers need to be exposed to the harsh and fragmented surfaces of cliffs and steep cliffs, while holding machinery to shuttle through the dust. Nowadays, the fate of AI intelligent drilling rigs is completely rewriting this rule.

Recently, North Blasting Company, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Chemical Industry of China Ordnance Industry Group, successfully developed an AI intelligent drilling rig and completed its first on-site operation. With no human intervention throughout the entire process, the equipment operated continuously and stably for 8 hours, achieving significant results such as positioning error less than 2 centimeters, drilling efficiency improvement of 30%, and fuel consumption reduction of 25%. Equipped with a multi-source fusion positioning system based on GNSS, inertial navigation, and LiDAR, the drilling rig can accurately locate and automatically plan the optimal path even in a communication free environment, intelligently crossing terrain obstacles.

In the intelligent project jointly transformed by Yipuli Company and Shanhe Intelligence, high-precision and cutting-edge equipment such as unmanned mining trucks, intelligent charging robots, and hole inspection robots have been applied on a large scale in multiple scenarios, effectively reducing the dependence of high-risk environments on natural human labor. The era where senior masters judged the depth of drilling based on their feelings in the past has officially come to an end. With millisecond level response speed and centimeter level precision judgment, machines are achieving the feat of drilling and loading with safer and more efficient standards.

2、 Data guidance: unmanned aerial vehicles and satellite guidance create a 'digital twin'

If intelligent drilling machines are the hands and feet of concrete work, then unmanned aerial vehicles and artificial intelligence models are the intelligent brains that support precise decision-making for blasting operation teams.

In the open-pit mining projects undertaken by Yipuli Company, such as vanadium titanium magnetite and limestone mines, surveyors are no longer burdened with traditional instruments and are now accompanied by drones equipped with 3D laser scanning systems. Only one technician is needed to complete the terrain data collection of the entire mine, which is several times more efficient than traditional methods. The data can also be directly synchronized to 3D blasting design software to generate an automatic 3D real-life model of the mine, laying a solid data foundation for subsequent design. The seamless transition from "real-life surveying" to "digital twin" has achieved complete unity between blasting design and natural geographical conditions on the computer side.

At the same time, Hongda Blasting released the "Wukong Blasting Model", which is hailed as the first exclusive large model in the blasting industry. This model covers nearly 40 years of industry data, including 10 categories, 85 subcategories, and over 500000 pieces of data. It can simultaneously analyze blasting design text, geological images, and blasting effect videos, accurately generate parameters such as charge quantity and detonation sequence, and provide blasting plan recommendations with an accuracy rate of over 95%. Finally, through ultra long distance intranet remote control, the labor-intensive and high-risk operations of the past were transformed into a highly safe, convenient, and concealed intelligent operation loop: from drilling to automatic inspection and analysis after blasting, the entire blasting process was unmanned.

3、 Silk Road Expedition: Made in China Across the Ocean Empowers Overseas Infrastructure

While "unmanned" and "intelligent" reshape the core competitiveness of the industry, the tentacles of China's civil explosive industry are also vigorously extending globally.

Especially in resource rich African countries such as Cameroon, batches of civilian explosive enterprises have overcome the harsh geographical environment of deserts and dense forests, completing the "expedition" of Chinese industries to the global market. The overseas team of Xinlian Civil Explosive Group is facing multiple challenges such as unstable power supply, component interruption, and road interruption. They have developed inventions and creations tailored to local conditions: by customizing high-density waterproof bags from China, accurately matching the size of local blast holes, and placing them at the bottom of the holes before filling them with explosives during loading, they effectively solve the problem of "unsuitable water and soil" for explosives to fail when exposed to water in high humidity and rainy environments in the local area. With this indomitable spirit of hard work, as of the end of March 2026, the overseas business performance of Xinlian Civil Explosive has been in full swing, with emulsion explosive sales increasing by 238.47% year-on-year and operating revenue increasing by 61.25% year-on-year.

Under the leadership of leading enterprises such as Hongda Civil Explosive, Chinese electronic detonators have sparked a wave of substitution in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia, achieving a cumulative export record of over 200000 rounds. Yipuli, as the first candidate to win the bid, has made a strong entry into the international trade competition of national resource development bases. In the first quarter of 2026 alone, it won a blasting engineering contract worth up to 1.7 billion yuan overseas. With the domestically developed intelligent loading vehicles and sensitive drug safety production technology, China's civil explosive enterprises have continuously strengthened their market influence in major potential mining areas in Asia, Africa, and even South America. Chinese standards and patent definitions are gradually becoming well-known to the world.

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The journey towards safety, intelligence, and globalization in the civilian explosive industry is still ongoing. Machines replacing humans, algorithms paving the way, and cross-border data will become the main theme of this transformation and upgrading. From unmanned drilling rigs deep in mines to Chinese explosives in African rainforests, the industry has reconstructed its boundaries through repeated challenges in tackling hazards, constantly delivering the "Chinese answer sheet" to balance development and safety.