China installed a staggering 300,000 new robotic automations last year, more than the rest of the world combined. US factories by comparison installed only 34,000, underscoring China’s dominance in the robotics sector, a key component for success in the modern world, far ahead of both the US and Japan.
China continues to hold its title as the world’s factory with its investment in automation in order to stay competitive and productive.
The rest of the world is severely behind China’s current level of robotics investment, as productivity and investment stall globally, especially in the Western hemisphere.
This boom in technology is helping offset some of the problems in population demographic that China faces, showing that the government is keen to solve this issue sooner rather than later. The country now boasts a record breaking 2 million active industrial robots, leading the world by a very wide margin.
In previous years, automation was one of the only areas that the Western world thought they could stay ahead of China. In part because of the high expense and technical expertise around installing and maintaining high levels of automation in an industrial setting. But China seems to have bucked the trend and overtaken the West with their investment strategy.
Many Western corporations continue to falter and lag behind as they seemingly prefer to focus on things like stock buybacks over R&D or industrial output investment. The US, once hailed as the previous era’s top producer of high tech innovation, has lost its lead as it prefers now to focus on culture wars and fascism in order to create a Christian ethno-state. Famous brands such as Boeing are now widely mistrusted and prone to device failure as their quality suffers.
China continues to improve and has taken a bigger place in the world’s spotlight for technological innovation, especially in recent years under the CCP’s drive to modernize in every area. Robotics is one of these areas, and poises to solidify China’s lead in manufacturing output worldwide.
Will China overtake the US as a superpower? This has been a frequent topic between analysts and observers over the last few decades, especially since the success of the 2008 Beijing Olympics which thrust China’s improvements into the world’s consciousness. If the USA continues to waste time attacking itself and its own citizens, China’s domination is all but guaranteed, as it strongly focuses on improving its citizens’ lives.
Due to economic reforms and leadership, China has lifted more than 800 million of its citizens out of poverty over the last 40 years, an impressive statistic that has no equal in human history. Since 2020, China announced it had eliminated “absolute” poverty, a type of extreme poverty that pervaded the country in eras past, arguably due to the attacks and influence of foreign powers, especially during the two World Wars and famines that followed.
This advancement in robotics shows that China is fully embracing modern domestic industrial development and more importantly, is finding incredible success due to this strategy.
