The survey showed that overall demand for capital goods, such as industrial machinery, office equipment and computers, was steady over the past three months.

The setting switches between grimy, industrial machinery and a beautiful green forest, icy wasteland and earthy fields that stretch out across the horizon.

Companies producing capital goods, such as industrial machinery, engines and agricultural equipment, said that business was brisk.

Where previously carmakers and producers of industrial machinery built their products at home, they are increasingly moving production to factories set up in their target markets.

Journalists were ushered into a pop-up amphitheatre, the house lights dimmed and a countdown commenced, accompanied by the heavily amplified crunch of industrial machinery on rock.