CHINA-BEIJING-WORLD ROBOT CONFERENCE 2022 (CN)

CHINA-BEIJING-WORLD ROBOT CONFERENCE 2022 (CN)

(220818) -- BEIJING, Aug. 18, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Aug. 18, 2022 shows robot sorters during an expo of the World Robot Conference 2022 (WRC 2022) in Beijing, capital of China. The WRC 2022 is held from Aug. 18 to 21 in Beijing. More than 500 sets of robots are displayed during the conference and over 30 of them make their world debuts in Beijing. The conference, which is held both online and offline, features three major events including forum, expo and competition. (Xinhua/Ren Chao)

GLOBALink | Couriers recruited nationwide to help Shanghai restore logistics

STORY: GLOBALink | Couriers recruited nationwide to help Shanghai restore logistics DATELINE: April 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:51 LOCATION: SHANGHAI, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the delivery STORYLINE: A Chinese logistics company has recently recruited over 3,200 couriers and sorters nationwide to help with logistics in Shanghai. Most of them have now been put to work, and the number of delivery orders in Shanghai is expected to return to about 80 percent of pre-pandemic levels this week. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG HUAWEI, Courier "I come to work at 7 every morning till about 7 p.m. The vehicle we use for delivery work is relatively small. So we need to ride back and forth to the warehouse for several times to deliver the packages." SOUNDBITE (Chinese): WANG HUAWEI, Courier "Hello, your package is here. Ok." Shanghai has been working hard to boost the supply of daily necessities for its population of 25 million, as it has adopted restriction measures to tackle the latest resurgence of COV