China has held the title of world’s largest robot market for three consecutive years, from2013 through 2015. Also in 2015, the sales of robots for industrial use in China exceeded the same sales number for Europe, according to a recent report from thepaper.cn.
The same report states that the total number of robots sold in 2015 exceeded 68,000, which is a 30.3 percent rise from 2014.
相同的報告聲明,2015年機器人銷售總量超過6800個,同比2014年上漲30.3%。
The report was issued by Song Xiaogang, secretary general of the China Robot Industry Alliance, during the 2016 China International Robot Show (CIROS) that opened on Wednesday in Shanghai.
在上海周三舉行的2016年中國國際機器人展上,該報告由中國機器人產業聯盟秘書長宋曉剛發出。
Specifically, some 36.8 percent of robots sold were deployed in the automobile industry.While the robots working with car manufacturers are mostly foreign brands, domestically-made robots were most frequently used in the metal product manufacturing industry, the report said. The most popular models on the Chinese market are multi-joint robots, with a growing percentage of domestic brands winning larger shares of the market.
“Even the high-end industry is beginning to provide low-end products, indicating the massive popularity of robots in today’s market. However, we must prevent this trend from growing more pronounced. Companies should be more innovative in their research, development and application of technologies. They must also avoid pointless competition,” said Wang Weiming, a senior official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, during a forum at CIROS.
According to Wang, there are over 40 robot industrial parks across China and more than800 large-scale robot manufacturing companies.
據王說,中國有40多個機器人工業園,800多個大規模的機器人制造公司。
Wang Ruixiang, president of the China Machinery Industry Federation, said that the robot industry is a key parameter in judging a country’s mechanical industrialization. Chinabegan to list its robot industry as strategically important in 2014, thepaper.cn reported.