China sees booming robotics industry

Hangzhou - According to the report released at the 5th China Robot Summit, the Chinese robot industry steadily grew in 2017. Last year, about 1,686 robot companies were established.

As of the end of 2017, the number of Chinese robot companies exceeded 6,500 companies, mainly in China's Beijing - Tianjin - Hebei region, Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta.

In 2017, the global robot market reached 23.2 billion dollars, and the annual growth rate between 2012 and 2017 was 17%.

In 2013, China became the largest industrial robot market. In 2017, sales of industrial robots in China increased by 24% from the same period last year to 4.22 billion dollars, service robot sales increased 28% to 1.32 billion dollars compared to the same period last year.

The Chinese robot market is growing fast, according to IFR, by 2018, one third of the world's industrial robots will be placed in the country. Therefore it is natural that Swiss industrial robot manufacturing company ABB announced a rapid expansion plan to China. Please make use of this growth. However, the South China Morning Post believes that China still depends on important aspects of robots for import industries, and if you want to change the manufacturing industry in China and compete with foreign competitors, It must be developed internally.

At the end of 2016, various companies in China gathered, held a week 's exhibition in Beijing, introduced the rapidly growing robot industry. This is part of the domestic effort to promote the use of high-end technology at the factory in China, promote the production of advanced products, and reintroduce the concept of "Made in China". In the industrial center in the southern part of China, thousands of factories that were previously managed by cheap labor of migrant workers are turning into robots. This country has become the world's top customer of industrial robots and there is the possibility to manipulate the most commercial robot on the global scale immediately. Recently, we installed 40,000 robots in a company that assembles Apple iPhone in China.

The growth of the Chinese robot industry is currently accelerating, with annual growth rate exceeding 50%. According to the China Robotics Industry Alliance, China has become the world's largest industrial robot market for the second consecutive year, and in the next decade the robot market will reach 600 billion yuan ($ 92 billion). Robots like Jiajia have become commonplace in neighboring Japan, the robot industry has developed for decades. Japanese companies now account for 50% of the world's factory robot market, and the potential opportunities of robotics and the threat of growth of Chinese industry are all being evaluated. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced plans to set the Japanese robot industry four times as much as 19 billion dollars by 2020.