Speaking at the opening ceremony, Xin Guobin, vice minister of industry and information technology, said that revenue of Chinese robotics enterprises topped 300 billion yuan ($44.45 billion) in 2025, with average annual growth rate exceeding 20 percent over the past five years. Their business revenues reached 165.5 billion yuan in the first half of this year, up 24.5 percent year-on-year. Robotics technologies and products have been widely applied across the national economy and social development, becoming an important force driving high-quality development, Xin said.

　　Xin called on the scientific and industrial communities of all countries to move forward hand in hand to jointly promote the high-quality development of the robotics industry, so that intelligent robots can better empower economic and social development and deliver greater benefits to the mankind.

　　The Development Initiative on Intelligent Robots for the Positive and for Good was released at the opening ceremony of the conference, aimed at rallying international efforts to safeguard the healthy growth of robotics. The ceremony also unveiled the "Top 10 innovation achievements and top 10 high-value application scenarios" of central SOEs in robotics, along with Application Demands of Embodied Intelligence in Emergency Scenar ios, which will underline the conference"s push to move robots into practical use.