Chinese premier calls for strengthening global cooperation to boost the robot industry
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, pays a field survey visit to the 2024 World Robot Expo in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 25, 2024. (Xinhua/Liu Weibing)
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has emphasized the need to foster an open environment for technical innovation and support foreign firms and research institutions to invest in China when talking about advancing the robot industry through closer global collaboration.
Li made the remarks while on a field survey visit on Sunday to the 2024 World Robot Expo in Beijing.
He said it is necessary to establish and make good use of cooperation platforms for industrial exchanges, maintain the stability and smoothness of industrial and supply chains, and facilitate technical innovation of the robot industry worldwide.
Li toured the expo’s exhibition hall and inquired about the performance, technological advantages, and in particular the applications of some robots on display.
The expo was part of the five-day World Robot Conference which opened on Wednesday and was themed “Co-fostering New Quality Productive Forces for a Shared Intelligent Future.”
Li called for strengthened efforts to boost technical innovation and industrial development to cultivate new growth engines and continuously improve people’s well-being.
Referring to robots as an “important yardstick for technical innovation and high-end manufacturing strength,” Li said relevant innovation should target industrial upgrading, consumption upgrading demand, and world-leading industrial frontiers.
Li added that China’s advantages, ranging from a super-sized domestic market to abundant innovation scenarios, should be fully used. In contrast, applications of robot-related technological innovation in manufacturing, farming, and services should be accelerated.
To boost the robot industry, he also underlined the need for engaging more venture capital investment, incubating more unicorn firms and more “little giant” firms, which are small and medium-sized enterprises that specialize in a niche market and boast cutting-edge technologies, as well as fostering industrial clusters with specialties and advantages.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
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