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“With
the number of young manufacturing workers shrinking and wages rising,
China's manufacturing plants are replacing them with automated
robots, [...] The move is a part of China's broader plan to overhaul
their economy and bring them up to speed with the wealthy nations.”
“'Frontline
workers, their turnover rate is really high. More and people are
unwilling to do repetitive jobs. So these two issues put the
manufacturing industry in China under huge pressure,' said Pboll
Deng, deputy general manager of Shenzhen Rapoo Technology Co., one of
the companies at the forefront of the robotics push. 'What we are
doing here is a revolution.'”
“The
move towards the use of automated robots is not surprising - the
Chinese government has been planning to do so to maintain factory
expansion without causing a drop in employment rates, ...”
Questions
arise:
How
is it possible the most populous nation of more than 1.3 billion,
having lack of workers?
How
is it possible any country to maintain current employment rates when
robots penetrate with such a speed into nearly every professional
field?
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