AI, robots, biotech: Inside China's growth pivot

人工智能、机器人、生物技术:中国增长转型的内幕

The Point with Liu Xin

2026-07-29

26 分钟
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China's growth playbook just changed. "Made in China" once meant cheap clothing and appliances, then EVs, batteries and solar panels. Now, Beijing is betting big on what it calls the new "new three": AI, robotics, and innovative pharmaceuticals, and the shift could reshape the global economy. In this episode, experts explore why these industries are becoming new growth drivers, how they could transform productivity, and what they may mean for the future of work, business and society.
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  • Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

  • This is The Point.

  • China is leveling up and most people probably don't even know what's happening.

  • Made in China was once seen as the labels of clothing goods or cheap home appliances.

  • Then it moved to green tech, EVs and lithium batteries and solar panels.

  • Now China is moving into the technologies that will shape the future,

  • notably AI, robotics and next generation biotech dubbed the new new three.

  • These are the industries that China is going.

  • All-in on whether you are an investor a farmer doctor students studying computer programming

  • or trading looking for the next stock pick you probably want to understand what china is doing right now in these fields

  • why is china going all-in on these three technologies what will this mean for the future

  • of work business study and society welcome to this edition of the point and opinions you're coming

  • to you from beijing with me lu shin i'm pleased to be joined for from Shanghai by Alex Javon-Rolkov,

  • founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, a generative AI-driven clinical stage drug discovery company.

  • From Singapore, Louise Lu, Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics.

  • And from Beijing, by Li Lun, Assistant Professor of Economics at Peking University.

  • The warmest welcome to all of you.

  • So first of all, let's understand what we're talking about.

  • A little bit of background, okay.

  • Science and Technology Minister of China, Yin Hejun, recently announced at a policy briefing