BEIJING — China's industrial robot production surged 31.7 percent year-on-year to 25,635 units in November 2020, official data showed.

In the first 11 months of last year, the country produced a total of 206,851 industrial robots, up 22.2 percent from the same period in 2019, data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology showed.

During the January-November period, China's major industrial robot makers with annual revenues of at least 20 million yuan (about $3.05 million) raked in 45.33 billion yuan in combined revenue, up 3.4 percent from a year earlier, the data showed.