{"id":87767,"date":"2019-02-15T01:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/man-vs-machine-chinas-workforce-starting-to-feel-the-strain-from-threat-of-robotic-automation"},"modified":"2019-02-15T01:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:02:24","slug":"man-vs-machine-chinas-workforce-starting-to-feel-the-strain-from-threat-of-robotic-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/man-vs-machine-chinas-workforce-starting-to-feel-the-strain-from-threat-of-robotic-automation","title":{"rendered":"Man vs machine: China\u2019s workforce starting to feel the strain from threat of robotic automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-vs-machine-chinas-workforce-starting-to-feel-the-strain-from-threat-of-robotic-automation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of its effort to upgrade its manufacturing sector, the Chinese government started a campaign in 2014 with the overall aim gradually replace manual labour with robots, with the heavily industrialised provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong among those introducing the new technology on a massive scale.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Companies, including iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, are turning to robots with around 100 million workers in China\u2019s manufacturing industry under threat.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/2185993\/man-vs-machine-chinas-workforce-starting-feel-strain-threat\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/2185993\/m...ain-threat<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its effort to upgrade its manufacturing sector, the Chinese government started a campaign in 2014 with the overall aim gradually replace manual labour with robots, with the heavily industrialised provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong among those introducing the new technology on a massive scale. Companies, including iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, are turning [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}