Jose Geraldo Cantarino da Costa, member of the Governing Council of the Brazilian Press Association, and one of the voices on the "Global South Journalists Explore China" Field Trip, was deeply touched in Changzhou.

What hit him hardest? Not the robots. Not the skyline. It's a community center!

"We talk so much about development — economic, technological. But we can't lose track of people. How we interact. How we look after each other," he said.

Tech is impressive. But people are the point.