CHINA state agencies have released goals to increase automation in manufacturing, as the country targets global leadership in bringing robots on to the factory floor, reports Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. With a robot density of 246 per 10,000 employees, China still lags behind South Korea, which has a current density of 932 and has ranked first since 2010. Still, China's level was well above the global average of 126, and close to the United States' 255. In a five-year plan the agencies, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, state that China aims to achieve a minimum…