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Recently, the British "The Daily Telegraph" published an article entitled "Western executives visited China with shock back home", detailing Ford CEO Jim Farley, Australian mining giant Andrew Frost and other Western industrial executives in the China line just finished, shaken by China's modernized factories.

Many executives from European and American enterprises visited Chinese automobile factories

¡°It¡¯s the most obscene thing I¡¯ve ever seen.¡± Ford CEO Jim Farley said after a recent trip to China. ¡°After visiting a series of automotive factories, the European American car giant was surprised by China¡¯s automotive technology and their cost and vehicle quality were far superior to what I saw in the West.¡±

Australian billionaire Andrew Forrester at the helm of mining giant Fortescue has abandoned his attempt to make electric vehicle powertrains after a visit to China. Forrester told the media: "I can take you to the factory in China now, and you will see a huge conveyor belt with robots assembling parts. After walking along this conveyor belt for about eight or nine hundred meters, you will see a truck driving out. There was no one in the whole process, everything was operated by robots."

Robots assembling parts.

Greg Jackson, the owner of an energy company in the UK, recalls: ¡°The factory is all robots and doesn¡¯t even need to light up.We visited a factory that produces mobile phones, the whole process is highly automated, there are no workers on the production line, and only a few people are there to ensure the factory works properly.¡±

The impression of these executives is far from the previous Western view of cheap "made in China" goods.

According to the latest data from the International Federation of Robotics IFR, China's industry has achieved a huge high-tech transformation in the past 10 years. From 2014 to 2024, the number of industrial robots deployed in China soared from 189,000 to more than 2 million. Last year, the total number of robots added in China was 295,000, compared with 27,000 in Germany, 34,000 in the United States and only 2,500 in the United Kingdom.

You might attribute this difference to differences in population size. But China is also far ahead in terms of robot density-currently, China has 567 robots per 10000 manufacturing workers, compared with 449 in Germany, 307 in the United States, and 104 in the United Kingdom.

Low-cost, high-quality Chinese goods, popular in the West. In September this year, the sales of Biady in the UK grew 10 times, surpassing brands such as Mini, Renault and Renault. Auto Manufacturers and Traders Association CEO Mike Hoss said: ¡°They developed and performed model production time, as long as half of most European car manufacturers.¡±

Robots carrying objects.

European economists say that if the UK and other European countries want to keep up with China's innovation pace while maintaining the vitality of their manufacturing industries, they must strengthen their robot deployments.

But it seems to be difficult at the moment, and economists say the policies of British politicians are just about stopping the closure of steel and automotive factories, rather than encouraging the creation of new high-tech jobs.

Tomates interactive ¡¤ city press reporter Yong Han Jun

Editor Chen Xiaoyan