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Statistics Bureau: Industrial Robot Output Up 29.1% Year-on-Year in First Three Quarters

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Mao Shengyong, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said at a State Council Information Office press conference on October 19 that in the first three quarters China's industrial robot output grew 29.1% year-on-year, while output of 3D printing equipment and lithium-ion batteries grew 62.5% and 39.5% year-on-year respectively; he said the equipment manufacturing industry and high-tech manufacturing industry provided notable support to industrial production. Wang Guanhua, spokesperson for the Statistics Bureau, said the same day that the "AI+" initiative has strongly driven investment and exports in emerging fields: in the first three quarters, investment in the electronic circuit manufacturing industry, integrated circuit manufacturing industry and information services industry grew 58.7%, 14.2% and 20.2% respectively, and with the support of the "two new" policies, investment in equipment purchases grew 9.7%; exports of electronic components and wires and cables grew 70% and 25.3% respectively.