China aims to be robot superpower
Editorial
The Economist
To Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, robots are “serious business”, says The Economist. In 2023, half of all industrial robot installations were in China and the country produced more than six million “service robots”, which do things like cook, clean and move boxes. This is a deliberate push to increase productivity (also, robots don’t get Covid). The working-age population is projected to drop by more than 20% by 2050. Labour shortages abound and