China retools vocational education for AI, robotics engineers under $20 billion strategy

What happened?

1. More than 2 million robots operate in China's factories, more than in any other country.
2. China now manufactures more than half of the world's industrial robots and ships them across the globe.
3. Xi Jinping's innovation strategy commits $20 billion (£14.7 billion).
4. The Hangzhou Technician Institute is one of several purpose-built vocational schools designed to produce the next generation of tech-savvy engineers.
5. Instructor Chen Tianyu, 28, teaches about 30 college students to program industrial robots and develop robotic medical instruments.
6. Chen warns pupils that they will be 'eliminated' unless the world of AI and robotics needs them.

China is retooling its vocational education system to train AI and robotics engineers, with campuses such as the Hangzhou Technician Institute as part of a $20 billion national strategy. Teachers like 28-year-old Chen Tianyu are embedding hands-on robot programming into the curriculum to keep students competitive in an automated economy.

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