Increasingly automated Chinese manufacturing industry

Today's Chinese factories are increasingly using automated production, or they can also be called "robot employees."

From the manufacture of automobiles to the manufacture of chips, the degree of mechanization in China's industrial sector has become higher and higher. According to statistics, 28% of Chinese factories have achieved digital control, including mechanization. Although this proportion is much lower than Japan's 83%, China is spreading mechanization management faster than Japan used to.

The reason why mechanization is becoming more and more popular is that, besides moving closer to more advanced technologies and equipment, it may be due to rising labor and raw material costs, and weak exports. HSBC’s China Manufacturing Purchasing Manager (PMI) preview index for June was 48.1, still lower than the final value of 48.4 in May. It has been the lowest since it fell to seven months, and it is still below the 50 line of prosperity. The real economy is facing greater downward pressure.

According to reports, home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corporation in Greater China confirmed that the production business of the company's Kitchen Aid handheld agitator has been transferred back to the United States last year, and the company is still considering moving more small appliances back to the United States. Not only Whirlpool, the United States Manufacturing Promotion Act implemented in the past three years, Intel, Ford and other Fortune 500 companies may be part of the production jobs back to the United States, announced the next few years of huge domestic investment plans, capital flows back to the United States early signs.

China is the world's largest manufacturing country, but it is no longer facing cost advantages. Before the return of European and American capital, it occupied the industrial chain and high-end technology, and Southeast Asia became the emerging low-cost manufacturing region. Only the traditional manufacturing industry could be transformed and upgraded as soon as possible. It is the real way out.

Some analysts believe that China’s pursuit of high-quality products is now becoming more and more intense. For high-tech industries, Chinese factories that want to establish a foothold in global competition have to use machines. The government is also aware of this issue and promotes industrial upgrading in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”. Compared with developed countries, we still have a big gap. Some economists pointed out that "the road to mechanization in China is still very long."