China’s High-Tech Push Seeks to Reassert Factory Dominance

China’s High-Tech Push Seeks to Reassert Factory Dominance
Workers are seen inside the production chain at a semiconductor manufacturing factory in Beijing, China on May 14, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images
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At a factory in northern China, workers are busy testing an automated vehicle designed to move bulky items around industrial spaces, one of a new generation of robots Beijing wants to shift the country’s manufacturing up the value chain.

The Tianjin-based robot maker has received tax breaks and government-guaranteed loans to build products that modernize China’s vast factory sector and advance its technological expertise.