This Day, That Year

Item from July 12, 1987, in China Daily: China is developing its fledgling robotics industry in a bid to expand the industrial application of robots, and to replace people working under unhealthy conditions.

China's robotics industry is booming.

Figures from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that the country has more than 800 companies - a considerable number of them original equipment manufacturers or assemblers - producing robots.