China is the world's largest and fastest growing robot market, with a scale of 124 billion yuan in 2022, accounting for one-third of the global market. Among them, the market sizes of industrial robots, service robots, and special robots are $8.7 billion, $6.5 billion, and $2.2 billion, respectively. The average growth rate from 2017 to 2022 reached 22%, leading the global average by 8 percentage points.

Since 2013, local governments have introduced multiple policies to encourage the development of the robot industry, taking into account their own advantages and characteristics. These policies cover the entire chain of support from research and development, production, and application. During this period, cities with resource endowment advantages and industry first mover advantages have successively led the regional competition. In addition, with the continuous deepening of robotics technology and product innovation, more and more new products, tracks, and applications continue to emerge. In addition to traditional hard power, the competition between industries between cities is becoming increasingly prominent in terms of soft power. At present, the regional distribution of China's robot industry has gradually formed a distinct regional pattern.

The following is the top 6 cities of comprehensive ranking of robot in China. Let's take a look at which cities are at the forefront.

Top1: Shenzhen

The total output value of the robot industry chain in Shenzhen in 2022 was 164.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.9% compared to 158.2 billion yuan in 2021. From the perspective of industry chain segmentation, the proportion of output value of robot industry system integration, ontology, and core components is 42.32%, 37.91%, and 19.77%, respectively. Among them, benefiting from the growth of downstream demand for new energy vehicles, semiconductors, photovoltaics, and other industries, the revenue of midstream enterprises has generally shown significant growth; Under the demand for domestic substitution, core components are also steadily growing.

Top2: Shanghai

According to the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee's External Propaganda Office, the density of robots in Shanghai is 260 units/10000 people, more than twice the international average (126 units/10000 people). The industrial added value of Shanghai has increased from 723.1 billion yuan in 2011 to 1073.9 billion yuan in 2021, maintaining the first place in the country. The total industrial output value has increased from 3383.4 billion yuan to 4201.4 billion yuan, breaking the 4 trillion yuan mark, and the comprehensive strength has reached a new level.

Top3: Suzhou

According to the statistics of the Suzhou Robot Industry Association, the output value of the robot industry chain in Suzhou in 2022 is approximately 105.312 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.63%. Among them, Wuzhong District, with multiple leading enterprises in the field of robotics, ranks first in the city in terms of robot output value. In recent years, the robotics industry in Suzhou has entered a "fast lane" of development, with continuous growth in industrial scale, enhanced innovation capabilities, and increased regional influence. It has been ranked among the top three in the "China Robot City Comprehensive Ranking" for two consecutive years and has become an important growth pole for the equipment manufacturing industry.

Top4: Nanjing

In 2021, 35 intelligent robot enterprises above designated size in Nanjing achieved a revenue of 40.498 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.8%. Among them, the annual revenue of enterprises in the industrial robot manufacturing industry above designated size increased by over 90% year-on-year. There are nearly a hundred local enterprises involved in robot research and production, mainly concentrated in areas and sectors such as Jiangning Development Zone, Qilin High tech Zone, and Jiangbei New Area Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park. In the field of industrial robots, outstanding individuals have emerged, such as Eston, Yijiahe, Panda Electronic Equipment, Keyuan Co., Ltd., China Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Pengli, and Jingyao Technology.

Top5: Beijing

Currently, Beijing has more than 400 robotics enterprises, and a group of "specialized, refined, and innovative" enterprises and "unicorn" enterprises that focus on segmented fields, possess professional core technologies, and have high growth potential have emerged.
In terms of innovation capabilities, a batch of iconic innovation achievements have emerged in the fields of new robot transmission, human-machine interaction, biomimetics, and more, and more than three influential collaborative innovation platforms have been formed in China; In terms of industrial strength, 2-3 international leading enterprises and 10 domestic leading enterprises in segmented industries have been cultivated in the fields of medical health, specialty, collaboration, warehousing and logistics robots, and 1-2 characteristic industrial bases have been built. The city's robot industry revenue has exceeded 12 billion yuan; In terms of demonstration applications, about 50 robot application solutions and application service templates have been implemented, and new progress has been made in the application of industrial robots, service, special, and warehousing logistics robots.

Top6: Dongguan

Since 2014, Dongguan has been vigorously developing the robot industry, and in the same year, the Songshan Lake International Robot Industry Base was established. Since 2015, the base has adopted a project-based and project-based educational model, collaborating with Dongguan Institute of Technology, Guangdong University of Technology, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to jointly build the Guangdong Hong Kong Institute of Robotics. As of the end of August 2021, the Songshan Lake International Robot Industry Base has incubated 80 entrepreneurial entities, with a cumulative total output value exceeding 3.5 billion yuan. For the entire Dongguan, there are approximately 163 robot enterprises above the designated size, and industrial robot research and development and production enterprises account for about 10% of the total number of enterprises in the country.

(The above rankings are selected by the China Association for the Application of Mechatronics Technology based on the number of listed companies in cities, output value, scale of industrial parks, number of awards for the Chapek Award, scale of upstream and downstream robot markets, policies, talents, and other criteria.)