Huang: China's demographic crisis and youth attitudes are accelerating manufacturing automation
Sam Huang · BMW iVentures: AI, Robotics, and Onshoring Trends with Sam Huang · Jul 30, 2025 · at 22:39
Sam Huang, Principal at BMW iVentures, explains why global labor shortages and demographic trends in China are accelerating industrial automation.
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“China's is facing a major demographic crisis. A lot of the up and coming generation doesn't want to work these jobs. The whole lying flat phenomenon in, in China kind of speaks to this where like a lot of the younger generation, they don't want to do this work. Right. And so what are you going to do if you have this like aging population, but you are historically the center of manufacturing, But your, and your younger generations don't want to do this work. And so China, which has historically relied on cheap labor, is seeking to do more implementation of all these automation technologies too, right?”
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