Unemployment has increased in China due to robots, know in which sectors jobs are being lost?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation are expanding rapidly in China, considered the world’s largest manufacturing economy. While new technology has increased the speed of production, on the other hand it has also created an employment crisis for millions of employees. Machines are gradually replacing humans in areas like assembly lines, factory work, logistics and transportation.

Many big Chinese companies are now using such factories, which are called ‘dark factories’. The special thing about these factories is that a large number of employees are not required for production here. Robots and automated machines work non-stop day and night. Since these machines do not need light, rest or leave, they are called dark factories. The industry believes that this reduces production costs and also increases the speed of work, but its impact is clearly visible on the jobs of human workers.

Where is the biggest change?

According to reports, most changes are being seen in the electronics and hardware industry. Earlier, in factories where thousands of workers used to assemble mobile phones, laptops and other electronic devices, now robots are doing the same work in large numbers. The number of machines in many big assembly plants is continuously increasing, due to which the demand for employees working on the assembly line has become much less than before.

The automobile and machine manufacturing sector is also rapidly moving towards automation. Especially companies making electric vehicles (EV) are using state-of-the-art robotic systems in their factories. According to reports, in some modern production units up to 98 percent of the work is being done through machines. Welding, painting, metal fabrication, packaging and many other processes are now becoming fully automated. This has increased production, but reduced employment opportunities for traditional factory workers.

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Textile and garment industry is also not untouched by this change. In the textile industry, AI based cameras and robotic machines are now increasingly doing tasks like sewing, quality checking and packaging of clothes. Machines can work continuously and their chances of error are also less. This is the reason why many factories are relying more on machines by reducing the number of human workers.

The impact of technology is also increasingly visible in the logistics and warehouse sector. In big warehouses, the work of transporting goods from one place to another, sorting and preparing packages is now being done by automated robots. At the same time, the use of service robots and smart systems has also started increasing for last-mile delivery. Due to this, the number of traditional jobs in this sector is gradually decreasing.

On the other hand, testing and operation of driverless cars and robotaxis is increasing in many cities of China. If this technology is implemented on a large scale, the livelihood of millions of drivers associated with taxi and ride-hailing services could be affected.

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