The annual output exceeded 400,000 units

Before 2016, China’s industrial robot local enterprises research and development ability is weak, technical strength and overseas leading there is a big gap, in order to cultivate the market, the overall policy orientation is to market for technology, encourage the introduction of overseas robot enterprises investment, while promoting the technological progress of local enterprises. The four major international robot manufacturers have built production bases in China.

T9451 With the support of favorable policies and market demand, China’s industrial robot industry continues to develop and grow. According to the statistics Bureau, between 2015 and 2022, the annual output of industrial robots in China increased from 33,000 units to 443,000 units, an increase of more than 12 times in eight years. The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in the first quarter of 2024, China’s industrial robot production reached 120,000 units, an increase of 4.9%.

The density of industrial robots is a key indicator to measure the degree of automation in manufacturing. IFR data show that in 2022, China’s robot density reached 392 units per 10,000 workers, nearly 2.6 times the global average, and the ranking jumped to fifth place in the world, after South Korea, Singapore, Germany and Japan. The “14th Five-Year Plan” robot industry plan proposes that by 2025, the density of robots in China’s manufacturing industry will double compared with 2020, which means that it will reach about 500 units/million people, and there is still a large room for growth in the future.

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CAI Zhenkun believes: “The rise of domestic industrial robots is caused by many factors. The first is policy support. China’s “Made in China 2025″ released in 2015 elevates the development of AI-related technologies to a national strategic level; Secondly, the objective situation is caused by aging and the continuous increase of minimum wage, which leads to the continuous increase of labor costs, and enterprises have the internal motivation of machine replacement. Relevant industries have developed to a certain extent and technology has accumulated to a certain level, creating conditions for the rise of the industrial robot industry.”

T9451 Siasun robot automotive industry senior director Cheng Hufeng also said: “First, industrial upgrading, China proposed intelligent manufacturing 2025 has been nearly ten years, the industry from the discrete development, personalized development of the general situation, gradually standardized, information, intelligent, there are many excellent enterprises have made achievements; Second, the demographic dividend is declining, many factories can not find suitable technical workers, even if found, salary requirements are increasing year by year; Third, after the epidemic, many industries have been reshuffled, and the survival ability of enterprises that complete the transformation of intelligent manufacturing in advance will be stronger, there is no need to recruit so many workers, and the productivity elasticity and quality stability have been greatly improved; Fourth, the cost of the robot itself is falling, the investment payback period of enterprises using robots will be shorter, and enterprises are more willing to choose industrial robots in business decisions. The changes in these dimensions and the combined blessings have promoted the increase in the use of robots in China.”