Granted rare access to a BYD plant near Shanghai, celebrated photographer Edward Burtynsky documented how automation is transforming China, labor and the world’s supply chains.

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(CNN) — Depicting endless rows of uniformed workers, Edward Burtynsky’s iconic images of mid-2000s Chinese factories spoke to the seemingly inexhaustible human labor behind China’s economic miracle.