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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
On December 10, the Hong Kong-based Asia Times published an article titled “China Leads Industry 4.0, India Hopes to Join in.”
The strategic challenge India faces is not whether China will lead Industry 4.0, as this is already a reality, but how China's leadership will impact India's own development, as Indian manufacturers are highly dependent on Chinese technology.
China has pioneered the implementation of intelligent "dark factories" in the electronics and electric vehicle industries. These fully automated factories operate 24 hours a day, using precision equipment systems controlled by artificial intelligence and requiring virtually no human intervention.
To meet growing global demand for high-tech products, Chinese manufacturers of electric vehicles, mobile phones, and semiconductors are investing in fully automated factories. Despite the enormous capital investment, true "dark factories" can save 80% to 92% of direct labor costs in production.
Without automation, India will be unable to industrialize. Without robots and digital manufacturing systems, its labor-intensive export model will lose its competitiveness. India's electronics design and manufacturing ecosystem remains heavily dependent on Chinese components.
Although Indian factories typically use the "Made in India" label, the "brains" of the machines often come from China. Indian mobile phone manufacturers rely heavily on Chinese imports, including components, displays, processors, camera modules, and semiconductors.
Artificial intelligence will become the "operating system" of Industry 4.0. Chinese companies are actively developing their own core models, such as ERNIE Bot and Tongyi Qianwen, which are directly applicable to industrial ecosystems. Chinese AI-based industrial software is characterized by lower costs and a high degree of integration, and has undergone extensive field testing unmatched by other countries.
Moreover, in terms of total cost of ownership, a complete Chinese industrial AI system is already 25-40% cheaper than any open source or Western analogues.
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