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China eyes top-10 ranking in automation

Source: Agencies | July 23, 2016, Saturday | Print Edition

CHINA aims for a top-10 ranking in automation for its industries by 2020 by putting more robots in its factories, the International Federation of Robotics said.

China’s push to modernize its manufacturing with robotics is partly a response to labor shortages and fast rising wages.

But the world’s second-largest economy still has far lower robot penetration than other big industrialized economies — just 36 per 10,000 manufacturing workers in 2015, ranking it 28th among the world’s most automated nations.

By 2020, it aims to boost penetration to 150 per 10,000 workers, IFR said in a statement, citing Wang Ruixiang, president of the China Machinery Industry Federation.

To help reach that goal, China aims for sales of 100,000 domestically produced industrial robots a year by 2020, up 49 percent compared with last year, the IFR said in a statement at an industry summit in Shanghai, where Wang chief was speaking.

The Chinese market is still dominated by foreign robot makers like ABB, Kuka and Yaskawa, but domestic robot makers are making inroads and lifted their market share to 31 percent from 25 percent in 2013, the IFR has said.

Chinese producers still mainly make low to mid-range industrial robots but are keen to develop their capabilities.

Chinese home appliances maker Midea has just bought Germany’s Kuka in a 4.5-billion-euro (US$5 billion) takeover bid that ended last week.

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