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Industrial robot production surges

China's industrial robot production surged 38.5 percent year-on-year in October to 21,467 units, official data showed. In the first 10 months of the year, the country produced a total of 183,447 industrial robots, up 21 percent from the same period last year, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed. During the January-October period, China's major industrial robot makers with an annual business income of at least 20 million yuan ($3.05 million) raked in 39.62 billion yuan in combined revenue, up 2.3 percent from a year earlier.

CRRC launches new type of monorail train

Railcar maker CRRC Qingdao Sifang has recently produced a new generation of straddle-type monorail train with a designed maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour. Powered by permanent magnet traction technology, the train features a strong climbing capability, a large passenger-transport capacity, low noise, low energy consumption, and great adaptability to complex terrains, the company said. The train can carry up to 1,400 passengers with six cars.

Xinhua