China built a factory to replace workers with 1,000 robots

China is completing the first factory of the Dongguan manufacturing center with plans to replace almost all workers with robots.

China uses robots to replace workers

The factory owned by Shenzhen Everwin Technology Company currently has about 1,900 workers. Chen Xingqi said that 1,000 robots would replace people in production according to the new plan, reducing 90% of employees to 200. According to SCMP, the company did not give a specific investment figure to the factory, but said the production capacity here could reach two billion yuan, equivalent to $ 332 million (1 yuan = 0). , $ 16) per year.

In the future, robots will replace humans in manufacturing operations in factories in China.(Photo: Reuters)

The robot system will then be widely deployed in many factories in the Pearl River Delta region, one of the main centers of China's economic growth.

Since September last year, 505 factories in Dongguan have invested 4.2 billion yuan to produce robots with the goal of replacing more than 30,000 workers.By 2016, about 1,500 industrial enterprises of the city will start replacing people with robots.

The Guangdong provincial government earlier this year announced it would spend 943 billion yuan to replace workers with robots over the next three years. The provincial cities will support 200-500 million yuan per year for robot builders and robots to use robots in assembly lines.

Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, aims to promote the robot manufacturing industry with a production value of more than 100 billion yuan by 2020, as well as automating more than 80% of its production. street . Foshan city government said the value of the robot and automation market will reach 300 billion yuan in five years.

Lack of labor is a long-term problem in the Pearl River Delta region, although the situation has improved over the past few years. The most labor-intensive period is after the Lunar New Year, because workers are mostly migrants and many of them do not return to work after the holidays.