Beijing is set to hold the World Robot Conference 2015 from Nov. 23 to 25, focusing on collaborative innovation and the building of an intelligent society. China has been the biggest market in the global robot trade for two years.

According to Xu Xiaolan, Secretary General of China Association for Science and Technology (CAST), this conference will include a forum in which experts will deliver key-note reports. Xu added that CAST will unveil a plan to promote innovations in the robot technology and industry and give a launching ceremony for a platform aiming to transform technological innovations into commercial products.

China has seen exploding growth in the robot industry, according to a press briefing for the conference. The sales of industrial robots in China hit 57,000 last year, as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Mao Weiming revealed, which marks a growth of 55 percent on a year-on-year basis and a quarter of global trade.

However, China’s self-owned brands are far from satisfying the needs of various fields, Mao noted. For instance, in 2014, China mainly relies on importation of high-end robots in spite of the fact that the sales of self-owned brands robots reached 16,000.

Mao added China has stepped up efforts to make the robot industry development plan for the period from 2016 to 2020 (the period of the 13th Five-Year Plan). China also supports policies to promote robot research, development and application in key manufacturing fields and build a standardized system for the robot industry and products.