Robots are not only for fun and games, it's also a very serious industry in China. On April 6, the Ministry of Industry, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries jointly issued a development plan for the coming 5 years.

The plan lays out the industry's 5 tasks. Key breakthrough products, key components, significant improvement of robot reliability, market share and leading enterprises' competitiveness.

The country expects that by 2020, the number of industrial robots sold will reach one hundred and fifty thousand, with eight hundred thousand robots in use, and by 2025, the number of industrial robots sold will reach two hundred and six thousand, with one-point-eight million robots in use.

Another goal is for the overall industrial robot output value to break a hundred billion yuan at the end of 2020.