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China: The Accelerated Robotization of the World’s Workshop

Based on a Research note by Yann Vinh

In July 2015, the People’s Daily Online, the organ of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, devoted an article to the first ‘unmanned’ factory at Dongguan in Guangdong province.

This type of factory should rapidly become commonplace in the Pearl River Delta economic zone, China’s historic manufacturing base. In March 2015, the auth...