In recent years, the pace of replacing human labor with robots in various industries in China has accelerated rapidly.Most industrial robotics and intelligent manufacturing integrated service companies will at least double their annual sales in 2021.

Luo Jun, executive chairman of the International Robotics and Intelligent Equipment Industry Alliance, a government think tank focusing on intelligent manufacturing, said that "in terms of combining artificial intelligence and industrial automation technology, China has been very close to the leading level", and China, as the world's factory, can benefit from the wide application of automation more than other countries.

A company manufactures "flexible polishing devices" for rice processing.In the past, these devices relied entirely on overseas imports.Zhou Ying, the head of the company, said: "In the past, many parts of the beige color sorter relied on imports, and now all of them are domestically produced, and the price is getting cheaper and cheaper.This means that more SMEs are able to upgrade their production lines. ¡±China's target of 260,000 industrial robots per year by 2025 set in 2015 has been achieved four years ahead of schedule, because in the first three quarters of 2021 alone, China produced 268694 industrial robots.

Industry insiders and industry experts say the rapid development of automation technology will help alleviate China's aging labor shortage.However, demographers have expressed concern that automation will solve the problem of aging in Chinese, and demographer Huang Wenzheng said: "Automation helps the manufacturing and supply chain upgrades, but it does not help domestic consumption and aging problems much.¡±