According to statistics from relevant state departments, the biggest increase in wages over the past ten years was not in the sectors of finance, real estate and IT, but industrial workers. With the promulgation of the new labor law, the minimum wage has been introduced everywhere, and the minimum wage in many coastal cities has been raised to around 1,500 by the original 400-500 yuan, and the increase has doubled. In 2012, the proportion of China's working-age population was 69.2%, down 0.60 percentage points from the end of last year, which was the first decline in a long period. Analysts believe that China's industrial robots will usher in an "breakout season" as the demographic dividend declines and technology evolves.
According to the national bureau of statistics, in 2012, China's working-age population aged 15 to 59 was 937.27 million, 3.45 million fewer than the previous year, accounting for 69.2% of the total population, down 0.60 percentage points from the end of last year. This is the first decline in the proportion of working-age people in China. Ma jiantang, head of the national bureau of statistics, predicts that China's working-age population will steadily and gradually decline, at least until 2030.
Over the past 30 years, China's rapid economic growth has benefited from a demographic dividend, but the demographic dividend is not permanent. Attenuation in the face of labor force, manufacturing step by step into the era of robots has become the trend of The Times, the rapid development of industrial automation, intelligent and practical application is quietly replaced with the vast number of front-line workers. China will become the largest market for industrial robots in the world in 2014, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).
Analysts say a profound change is taking place in the form of global social organizations as desktop manufacturing, marked by 3D printing, is coming to the fore. The future of the world could be made up of two parts, one is the creative field dominated by men, 2 it is dominated by robot manufacturing, this speculation accords with the general law of development economics, which further refined division of labor and improve work efficiency.
According to the latest data from the institute of electrical and electronics engineers (IEEE), more than 1 million industrial robots have been deployed worldwide. Japan has the largest number of robots in the world, with nearly 400, 000 industrial robots, or 40 per cent of the world's robots. At present, domestic manufacturers are concentrated in the middle and low level industrial robot research and development stage, more high-end products are mostly from Japan and Germany.
