China's top diplomat holds talks with Chilean FM

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Foreign Affairs Minister of Chile Francisco Perez Mackenna in Beijing on Wednesday.

Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said China and Chile share a time-honored friendship and are good friends and good partners.

Noting that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the China-Chile comprehensive strategic partnership, Wang said China stands ready to work with the new Chilean government to carry forward the traditional friendship, deepen practical cooperation and bring China-Chile relations to a new height.

Wang said China and Chile should maintain exchanges at all levels, consolidate high-level mutual trust and continue to support each other on issues concerning respective core interests.

China stands ready to work with Chile to deepen cooperation under the APEC "China Year" and accelerate the building of an Asia-Pacific community and a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, Wang said, calling on the two countries to strengthen the alignment of their development strategies and tap further into cooperation potential in such fields as artificial intelligence (AI) and the digital economy.

Wang also called on both sides to enhance communication and coordination, jointly advocate and practice true multilateralism, and advance the building of a community with a shared future for humanity.

Francisco Perez Mackenna said the new Chilean government firmly adheres to the one-China principle, and is willing to work with China to step up high-level exchanges, forge closer people-to-people bonds, strengthen industrial chain alignment and expand cooperation in fields including scientific and technological innovation, AI and personnel training.

Chile looks forward to working closely with China to uphold global free trade and promote world peace and stability, he said, adding that he wishes the APEC "China Year" a complete success.

China's top diplomat holds talks with Chilean FM

China's top diplomat holds talks with Chilean FM

China's top diplomat holds talks with Chilean FM

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