Help on robot technology sought abroad

Sharing of know-how will help foreign firms tap into market, vice-president says

Vice-President Li Yuanchao encouraged overseas robotics companies on Monday to share technologies with China-based vendors, saying that international cooperation will help foreign companies tap into China's huge market.

Li said he hopes that "industry leaders" in Europe, the United States and Japan will be open to technology cooperation with China, the world's second-largest economy, which buys one-fourth of all robots each year.