China ready to work with Indonesia to make meetings successful: spokesman

China stands ready to work with Indonesia to successfully convene the two major meetings under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.

Spokesman Lin Jian made the remarks at a regular press briefing in response to a question regarding Foreign Minister Wang Yi's upcoming visit to Indonesia and the relevant mechanism meetings.

Wang will visit Indonesia, where he will chair the first Conference of China-Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue Mechanism and attend the Second Ministerial Meeting of China-Indonesia Joint Foreign and Defense Ministerial Dialogue.

"Under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, solid progress has been made in building a China-Indonesia community with a shared future, and the 'five-pillar' cooperation has yielded fruitful outcomes. As the century-defining transformation is unfolding at an accelerating pace, it is of great significance for China and Indonesia, both major developing countries and major nations in the Global South, to strengthen strategic communication, solidarity and collaboration. The China-Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue Mechanism and the Second Ministerial Meeting of China-Indonesia Joint Foreign and Defense Ministerial Dialogue fully demonstrate the strategic significance and high level of the relations between China and Indonesia. In the first Conference of China-Indonesia Comprehensive Strategic Dialogue Mechanism, both sides will focus on b etter synergizing our development strategies, exploring practical measures to deepen the China-Indonesia community with a shared future, and bolstering respective modernization. In the Second Ministerial Meeting of China-Indonesia Joint Foreign and Defense Ministerial Dialogue, Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Defense Minister Dong Jun will have in-depth exchanges of views with the Indonesian side on political security, defense cooperation and international and regional situation," said Lin.

"China will work with Indonesia to follow the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, ensure the success of the two conferences, make coordinated efforts to advance cooperation on development and security, and move faster to build a China-Indonesia community with a shared future that carries regional and global influence, so as to bring more benefits to the people of China and Indonesia and make greater contribution to peace and development in the region and beyond," said Lin.

China ready to work with Indonesia to make meetings successful: spokesman

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