Wen Ku, director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that since the issuance of the “Guiding Opinions”, the development of China’s industrial Internet has made remarkable achievements.

1734-IB8S He pointed out that the industrial Internet innovation and development project has been promoted smoothly, the low-delay, high-reliability, and wide-coverage high-quality external network has been extended to more than 300 cities across the country, connecting more than 180,000 industrial enterprises, the “5G+ Industrial Internet” 512 project has been accelerated, and basic telecommunications companies around the country are actively docking with industrial enterprises, and more than 800 projects are under construction. The identification analysis system has achieved a breakthrough of “from 0 to 1”, with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chongqing five national top nodes basically completed, 75 secondary nodes online operation, more than 70 platforms with certain industry and regional influence, more than 40 million industrial equipment connections (sets), and fusion applications covering more than 30 key industries. Five new models and formats of intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, service extension, and digital management have been actively innovated, and remarkable results have been achieved in improving quality, reducing cost, and increasing efficiency.

1734-IB8S “The scale of the industrial Internet industry has reached 3 trillion yuan, the industrial ecology of multi-party coordination has been further expanded, and the members of the Industrial Internet industry alliance have reached 1,700.” Wen Ku, spokesman of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and director of the Department of Information and Communication Development, said.

Many provinces and cities in China have also formed their own industrial Internet industrial clusters. According to the data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, from a regional perspective, China has formed the Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Northeast China’s old industrial base, Chengdu-Chongqing and other industrial agglomeration areas. From the perspective of industry, the industrial Internet has covered the main industrial categories of manufacturing, expanded to energy, transportation, medical and other fields, and the application enterprises have achieved remarkable results in improving quality, reducing cost and increasing efficiency.

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1734-IB8S To promote the transformation of the manufacturing industry, new models and new forms of business continue to emerge

“The industrial Internet, as the product of the deep integration of a new generation of network information technology and manufacturing, is an important infrastructure and key support for the realization of industrial digitization, networking and intelligent development, and an important cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution.” Yu Xiaohui, vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communications and Secretary General of the Industrial Internet Industry Alliance, said in an interview with China Economic Weekly.

According to the industrial plan of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the industrial Internet includes three major systems: network, platform and security. Among them, network is the foundation, platform is the core, and security is the guarantee.

“Platform” is the hub of industrial links of all elements. As the “bull nose” of the development of the industrial Internet, the industrial Internet platform is vividly understood as “industrial Android”.

Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out that “the industrial Internet platform is to a certain extent the ‘operating system’ of the new industrial system, docking massive industrial equipment, instruments and products, and supporting the rapid development and deployment of industrial intelligent applications, playing an important role similar to Microsoft Windows, Google Android system and Apple iOS system.” Similar to these operating systems, the industrial operating system layer needs to realize the abstraction of various complex equipment or control logic in the industrial field, standardize the interface differences between different manufacturers’ products, achieve different protocol conversion, invoke the PaaS platform layer in the architecture in the form of low-level apis, and provide prefabricated components in the form of microservices. In this way, the application layer can quickly use components to orchestrate services and realize complex user application requirements.”

1734-IB8S The exploration of many “pioneers” has released great value and development vitality of the industrial Internet platform, and has also shown the broad prospects of intelligent manufacturing to the whole society.

Yu Xiaohui introduced that around the production characteristics of the industry and the pain points of enterprises, the platform enterprises continue to innovate their service capabilities, develop and form a number of system solutions, promote the formation of different industry digital empowerment paths, and create significant economic benefits.