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🗓️ 19 November 2025
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China recently came out with its latest five-year plan for growth, which will guide the world’s second largest economy through 2030. In it, top Communist Party leaders have pushed to boost the country's strength in manufacturing to the next level by upgrading older factories with advanced technologies for automation.
The challenge, according to the Chinese ministry of education, is that the sector has tens of millions of open jobs because there aren't enough skilled workers in the labor force to fill them.
One school is trying to bridge that gap. Marketplace China correspondent Jennifer Pak visited it in Nanjing city.
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| 0:51.7 | China recently came out with its latest five-year plan for growth, which will guide the world's second largest economy through 2030. |
| 1:01.2 | In it, top Communist Party leaders have pushed to boost the country's strength in manufacturing to the next level by upgrading older factories with advanced technologies for automation. |
| 1:12.6 | The challenge, according to the Chinese Ministry of Education, is that the sector has tens of |
| 1:18.2 | millions of open jobs because there aren't enough skilled workers in the labor force to fill them. |
| 1:24.4 | One robotics upskilling school is trying to bridge that gap. Marketplace's China correspondent Jennifer Pack visited and sent them. One robotics upskilling school is trying to bridge that gap. Marketplaces China correspondent |
| 1:29.7 | Jennifer Pack visited and sent this report from eastern Nanjing City. The training center called |
| 1:35.6 | Jinanche gives hands-on experience with industrial robots. At a robotics class, students are handed paper, |
| 1:44.0 | printed with rectangles and circles. |
| 1:46.4 | Today's task, program the robotic arms to trace the shapes. |
| 1:52.7 | Mastering these robots is key. Industrial robots are in many Chinese factories. |
| 1:58.3 | These factories have been automating as the labor pool shrinks. |
| 2:02.1 | And, says the training center's founder, Liu Zhenglong, |
| 2:04.9 | many young people don't want to do basic factory jobs, |
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