Published on: 2026-08-12
Source: People’s Republic of China — Translation
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In recent years, artificial intelligence, robotics, and innovative medicines have become new drivers of the modernization of China’s industry. In 2025, the export of industrial robots from China exceeded imports for the first time. Currently, Chinese quadruped robots account for nearly 70% of global sales, while shipments of humanoid robots exceed half of the global volume. Chinese robotics is rapidly entering the world market and becoming a typical example of China’s “intelligent manufacturing.”
This achievement is not accidental but is the result of long-term product improvement in the domestic market. China has the world’s largest manufacturing system, a developed service sector, and numerous application scenarios, which create a natural testing ground for robotic technologies. In the process of solving real tasks, Chinese robots quickly improve, and their technical maturity steadily increases.
The high competitiveness of Chinese robots is also due to the presence of a complete production chain. Over more than ten years, China has developed a comprehensive industrial ecosystem covering key components, specialized chips, sensors, operating systems, and system integration. Large-scale production has significantly reduced costs and shortened delivery times. Combined with related services — maintenance, training, software updates — these factors have created comprehensive advantages that have laid a solid foundation for Chinese robotics to enter global markets.
More importantly, the export of Chinese robotics is transitioning from simply “product sales” to “solution sales” and “ecosystem creation.” Enterprises are beginning to provide a full range of customized services, including production line planning, system integration, and iterative software updates, as well as introducing related upstream and downstream enterprises to foreign markets, creating localized service networks in target markets.
This process is inseparable from a healthy interaction between political strategy and market competition. However, the competitiveness of products is ultimately tested by the results of struggles in global markets. The Chinese robotics industry, aware of existing shortcomings, continuously accumulates experience and ultimately opens up new prospects.
The emergence of Chinese robotics on the global stage is a vivid example of the country’s industrial modernization. It proves that developing countries, relying on innovation, deepening engagement in the real economy sector, and actively participating in the global division of labor, can also rise to the upper levels of the production chain.
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