China buys 20% of global industrial robot output
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CHINA bought one fifth of the world’s industrial robot output in 2013, overtaking Japan as the biggest buyer of such technology, new data showed yesterday.
Some 36,860 industrial robots were sold in the Chinese market last year, up 36 percent annually, according to data released by the China Robot Industry Alliance.
Some 9,597 units came from domestic producers, while the rest of the market, around 73 percent, was taken by foreign robot makers, the CRIA said.
The development of China’s industrial robot sector has boomed over the past decade, with sales revenue growing by around 25 percent each year.
Wang Ruixiang, president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, attributed the rapid increase to the country’s diverse manufacturing sector creating huge demand.
Industrial robots have been widely applied in 25 major sectors in China, including food, chemicals, electronics and automobiles.
At the end of 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology unveiled a guideline for the sector.
Wang considers the robot sector a main gauge of a country’s progress in innovation and its development of the high-end equipment industry, and one which is pivotal to China’s determination to restructure its manufacturing.
His words were echoed by Song Xiaogang, president of the CRIA, who said using industrial robots will offset rising labor costs and lack of skilled workers, one of the major problems plaguing China.
The country is managing an industrial restructuring as part of its overall economic reform, shifting from thin-profit labor-intensive industries to high-tech emerging sectors with high added value.
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