Advances in Manufacturing

Continue to wait.
Waited for another two weeks and found that the review was completed. The next day at noon, received an email, reject.
Checked the review comments, there were two reviewers. One suggested minor revisions (about 3 comments), and one directly rejected.
Focused on the comments of rejection, the opinions were quite general, basically criticizing the entire paper. They said my English was not good and the paper was not fluent to read (in fact, I had someone proofread it). They mentioned that the theoretical part lacked innovation and the conclusion highlight was not clear. They hoped that I could provide some evaluation indicators that are currently hard to find among scholars worldwide. And the most frustrating part was that, regarding a certain indicator, the reviewer thought I did not provide the calculation method, but actually, the formula was right above the indicator graph. Therefore, from my limited understanding, I feel that what he said is not what I intended to convey.
After half a day, received an email from the editorial department suggesting transferring the paper to other journals. They recommended a total of 5 journals, 3 open-access, 1 non-English journal, and a well-known domestic journal with a long review time.
Decisively rejected the transfer suggestion.
I initially wanted to refute the second reviewer, but referring to the outcome of the previous reviewer, chances are it will still be rejected.
You can consider everything I said as my personal opinion, feel free to take it or leave it.

My experience of submitting this manuscript can be considered unheard of. Let me first explain the final outcome of this submission: it has been accepted and proofread!

At the end of May, after being rejected, I resubmitted to another journal. Then, in early June, a teacher from that journal called me and said there was a mistake. It was supposed to be accepted, but it was accidentally marked as rejected (speechless). The status on the submission system changed to "accept". I hurriedly withdrew the submission from the other journal (the consequences would have been unimaginable if I hadn't done it in time). After that, I received the proofreading email from this journal after a month. It took nearly a year from submitting at the end of last year until now, and it has been quite a struggle. However, fortunately, the result is good. I sincerely hope that domestic journals in China can catch up with international excellent journals and become highly recognized international journals soon!