CiDi and rivals including Fujian-based EACON are racing ​to provide self-driving trucks and other mining equipment, cutting labour and fuel costs while improving safety. Beyond trucks, CiDi is readying robotic explosive-hauling and drilling machines for "very dangerous, very precise" work, Hu said. Hu said CiDi can grow faster than China's autonomous mining ‌equipment sector. CiDi says the fleet is the first fully electric and self-driving mining truck fleet. China leads the world in the use of autonomous mining trucks, with roughly 10% of trucks now driverless.