China's robotics industry chain resilience needs strengthening

Deng Zhou noted that the industrial robot density of China's manufacturing sector has reached 2 times the world average, about 1/4 of South Korea's and 60% of Japan's and Germany's. China ranks first in the world in the number of robot patent applications and registrations, but domestically produced core components still lag foreign products considerably in quality, cost, and stability, and patent layout and quality are also relatively weak, leaving China exposed to risks of supply cutoffs and bottleneck constraints.