Core technology key to China boost As China shifts gears from a manufacturing-driven #economy to an innovation-driven one, problems and limits of Chinese firms have surfaced – namely, lacking core #technology. China’s robotic science is a clear case. China is the world's number-one market for #robots. It overtook Japan in 2013. In 2014, the sales of robots surged 54% from a year earlier to 56,000. That's a quarter of the global sales of robots. But 70% of the market in China is owned by global l