“Robot+” Application Action Implementation Plan

A 2023 policy from 17 Chinese ministries promoting the use of robots across many industries beyond manufacturing.

This is a policy document jointly issued in January 2023 by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, leading a total of seventeen government departments. Its approach is “robot plus a given industry”: pushing robots to expand beyond traditional factories like automaking and electronics into many more sectors. The plan calls for China's manufacturing robot density (robots per 10,000 workers) to roughly double by 2025 compared with 2020, and lists priority areas including manufacturing, agriculture, construction, energy, commerce and logistics, healthcare, elder care, education, community services, and public safety and hazardous environments, directing local governments and industry to identify and promote model use cases in each. It's a foundational document that predates the later humanoid-robot-specific policy, and is often cited by subsequent local scenario lists and demonstration projects.

Also called

Robot+ Initiative (MIIT, 2023)

Related

Guiding Opinions on the Innovative Development of Humanoid Robots · Robot Density · Machines Replacing Humans · Application Scenario List / Scenario Opening · Service Robot · Special-purpose Robot

Sources

工业和信息化部官网 (Chinese)

As of

2023-01