Sociologist Xu Yi Since the launch of the Made in China 2025 initiative five years ago, China’s central government has issued a raft of policies and documents pushing companies to embrace intelligent manufacturing and industrial upgrading. Three decades of rapid development earned China the nickname “ the world’s factory .” Now, faced with an aging population and dwindling pool of migrant labor, officials hope to keep the title via automation.
In theory, this process should create new knowledge-based and technical jobs for an increasingly skilled workforce. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has claimed automation will lead to […]
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