The Export-Import Bank of China (China EximBank) has issued nearly 500 billion yuan (about 74.15 billion U.S. dollars) in manufacturing loans in the first seven months of the year, the bank said on Tuesday.
The newly released funds have targeted key sectors, including the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the growth and expansion of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries. Among these funds, loans for advanced manufacturing approached nearly 200 billion yuan, accounting for 40 percent of the total.
This year, the bank has fully leveraged its role as a policy-based financial institution by increasing resource allocations and strengthening efforts to support the high-quality development of the manufacturing sector and help build a modern industrial system anchored by advanced manufacturing.
China EximBank is a state-funded and state-owned policy bank that supports China's foreign trade, investment, and international economic cooperation.
China EximBank issues nearly 500 bln yuan in manufacturing loans in Jan-July period
The 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing E-Town on Wednesday, bringing more than 3,000 exhibits, with one tenth of them premiered.
Running for five days, the event has drawn over 300 exhibitors, up 69 percent from last year, and more than 60 activities are on agenda.
"We have built a 600-square-meter immersive zone with several hundred products on display. We designed scenarios like a cyber training camp, a real-life industrial park, and a future-life house to show innovative applications of robots. Visitors can even remotely operate the robots on their own and experience the latest robotic technologies," said Fang Pei, procurement and sales head at JD Embodied Intelligent Robotics.
Apart from the larger scale, the exhibition at this year's conference shifts more from individual robot skills to scenarios of their working applications.
At the booth of a Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, the robot Tiangong, once a "marathon runner" in previous robot marathon competitions, performs various jobs. Controlled through large models, Tiangong can carry goods, conduct quality inspections, and do other work.
In a household scenario, Tiangong can execute orders of users like finding sausage and putting in into a designated container.
"The general trend shows that the industry is now shifting the focus from robot bodies, its motion and manufacturing to its intelligence and ability to working in the real world," said Xiong Youjun, general manager of the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.
The expansion of the exhibition scale aligns with the sector's rapid growth as a whole. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's industrial and service robot output rose 28 percent and 11.9 percent year on year in the first half of 2026, respectively. Chinese-developed quadruped robots now account for nearly 70 percent of global sales, with more than 400 domestically-built humanoid robot models, over half of the world's total.
World Robot Conference features real-life applications
