China's tech spending surges as it strives to be robotics superpower

Beijing aims for 70% of all robots in the country to be made at home by 2025

FUMIE YAKU, Nikkei staff writers

SHANGHAI -- China began its decades-long economic ascent as the "workshop of the world" by taking advantage of cheap labor. Now it is spending big to swap those factory workers for high-tech robots.

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