High-tech transforms country's ties with Europe

GUANGZHOU - After taking over German robotics firm Kuka, Chinese home appliance giant Midea Group is turning the European company into a global service provider for smart manufacturing.

At the 2017 China (Guangdong)-Europe Investment and Innovation Cooperation Conference held in Foshan this month, Gu Yanmin, vice-president of Midea, said more advanced mobile robots were being developed so that Kuka's industrial robots could be applied in more complicated production scenarios.

"More Chinese technologies have been introduced to the European market. The two-way technology exchange is replacing the previous one-way technology imports from Europe to China," Gu said.