China's first humanoid robot experience center opens in Jiangsu

China's first humanoid robot experience center opened in Wuxi City of Jiangsu Province on Tuesday.

The center includes eight immersive interactive zones on different themes such as boxing matches, chess-card games and other services covering industries, businesses and housekeeping.

"We had a great time of fun here, especially that robot dog, I feel I can play with it for a whole day. The robot dog can help pick up packages and make other runs. It's really a high-tech thing," said a visitor to the center with her primary school son.

Experts said the use of humanoid robots will be gradually extended from industrial applications in automotive manufacturing, electronic devices and smart logistics to commercial services within five years.

They will be widely used in the areas of elderly care, medical rehabilitation, retail guides and other services.

In five to ten years, the humanoid robot industry will converge with the personal computer and smart phone industries to form a vast industrial ecosystem.

"The global humanoid robot market is expected to reach 154 billion U.S. dollars by 2035. It is estimated that after 2045, there will be more than 100 million humanoid robots in use in China for various industries, and the overall market size might be up to 10 trillion yuan (about 1.4 trillion U.S. dollars)," said Zhong Xinlong, director of the artificial intelligence research office of the China Center for Information Industry Development.

China's first humanoid robot experience center opens in Jiangsu

China's experience in eradicating poverty offers valuable lessons for the rest of the world, said Kishore Mahbubani, former permanent representative of Singapore to the United Nations, in an interview aired Friday.

Mahbubani highlighted the historic significance of China lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, describing it as a powerful example of effective governance, in an exclusive interview with China Central Television (CCTV) in Shanghai.

"So, for a country like China to lift 800 million people out of poverty, the sense of personal liberation that people get when they escape poverty is so powerful. I experienced it, I came out of poverty. I can understand how these 800 million people feel. And so the sense of personal liberation is enormous. It takes an incredible amount of good governance to eradicate poverty. And so clearly, China has done some things exceptionally right to be able to rescue so many people from poverty," he said.

He also noted that China's success has reflected governance capacity that merits serious study.

"And if we can move into a world 10 to 20 years from now, where every country in the world replicates what China has done and eradicates poverty, then we would have improved the human condition dramatically. And that's why China's governance needs to be studied carefully by all the countries in the world," said Mahbubani.

China's poverty alleviation experience worth global study: former Singaporean diplomat