Why Has Guangdong's Robotics Industry Become a Shining Pearl of Southern China?

Guangdong has more than 99,000 robotics companies, the most of any region in China; its industrial robots hold a 33.9% share of the domestic market, and output has ranked first nationwide for many consecutive years. In 2021, Guangdong's industrial robot output was 110,200 units, up 56.5% year on year; in the first three quarters of 2022 it rose 67.1% year on year. Topstar, the province's first robotics flagship enterprise to list on the ChiNext board, developed its own robotic arm control system and expanded into SCARA, six-axis articulated, and DELTA parallel robots; Midea KUKA built China's first fully automated production line for heavy-duty robots, raising per-shift capacity by 50%.