中国掀机器人革命 或将提升经济竞争力

China bought 90,000 robots in 2016, accounting for almost a third of the global total, and the robot revolution may raise China's economic competitiveness, according to a report released by Bloomberg Intelligence (BI).

彭博社智库日前发布的一份报告显示，2016年中国购买了9万台机器人，约占全球机器人购买总量的1/3，机器人革命可能会提升中国的经济竞争力。

The number of industrial robot installations in China will nearly double to 160,000 in 2019, according to an estimation by International Federation of Robotics.

据国际机器人联盟估计，到2019年，中国的工业机器人安装量将增至16万台，几乎比现在翻一番。

Due to its massive working population, China still lags behind regarding robot density. There are about 50 robots for every 10,000 workers in China, compared to the global average of about 75.

由于其庞大的劳动力人口，中国在机器人密度方面仍然落后。在中国，每10000名工人大约拥有50个机器人，而全球平均水平则约为75个。

Automation is a sword cutting both ways. Robots may drive up productivity and economic competitiveness, but may also exacerbate income inequality.

自动化是一把双刃剑。机器人可能会提高生产率和经济竞争力，但也可能加剧收入不平等。

"Increasing use of robots should be bad news for medium-skilled workers," the report quoted BI economists Tom Orlik and Fielding Chen as saying. "Yet workers' wage growth in China remains rapid."

该报告援引彭博社智库经济学家汤姆·奥立克和菲尔丁·陈的话称：“机器人使用的增加对中等技工来说应该是个坏消息。但在中国，工人工资的增长依然迅速。”

Wages of domestic manufacturing workers with a high-school education rose by 53% from 2010 to 2014, according to China Household Finance Survey Data.

根据《中国家庭财务调查数据》，在2010年至2014年，中国国内接受过高中教育的制造业工人的工资上涨了53%。