In our latest Who’s Who edition of industry leaders, The Wire China profiles the industrialists, entrepreneurs and academics responsible for advancing China’s robotics sector.
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In 2014, Xi Jinping laid out his vision for the future of robotics in China. “We must not only improve the level of our robots, but also capture as much of the market as possible,” he said.
A decade on, China’s robotics industry is catching up to foreign rivals. China’s industrial robots market is the world’s largest and Chinese companies now supply about half of domestic demand, up from less than a third five years ago, according to the International Federation of Robotics.
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