With the successful conclusion of the two sessions of the National People's Congress in 2022, "industrial Internet" has once again become a hot word for the two sessions. This year's government work report also clearly pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the development of the industrial Internet, cultivate and expand digital industries such as integrated circuits and artificial intelligence, and enhance the technological innovation and supply capacity of key software and hardware. From 2018 to 2022, the "industrial Internet" has been written into the government work report for five consecutive years, which is enough to show the importance attached to the digital transformation of the industrial Internet to empower the manufacturing industry from the national level.
The industrial Internet empowers the high-quality development of the digital economy
In addition to the government work report, the representatives of the two sessions have also made suggestions and suggestions on hot spots such as the industrial Internet and the digital economy. In particular, it is worth mentioning that Zhou Yunjie, a deputy to the National People's Congress, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Haier Group, put forward two proposals on hot topics related to the industrial Internet this year: "Suggestions on Empowering the High-quality Development of Urban Digital Economy with industrial Internet" and "Suggestions on Promoting Open and Open Source to Form New Advantages of the Mainland Industrial Internet".
Zhou Yunjie pointed out that the industrial Internet is a necessary condition for empowering the high-quality development of the urban digital economy. He put forward three major suggestions, the main points include: one is to recommend supporting the national key provinces and cities to try first, top-level overall planning; the second is to strengthen policy guidance, increase financial support, encourage qualified cities, combined with the characteristics of local advantageous industries, bring together the government, industrial Internet platform enterprises and industrial ecological resources, build a city-level industrial Internet integrated service platform, and provide enterprises with "one-click online full coverage" of the whole life cycle service The third is to guide leading enterprises in the industrial chain and industrial Internet platform enterprises to jointly build vertical industry platforms, drive upstream and downstream enterprises to "build chains, supplement chains, extend chains, and strong chains", share industry ecology and resources; support industrial parks and economic development zones with a high degree of concentration of manufacturing resources, and further promote the construction of industrial Internet functional systems.
In addition, Zhu Lifeng, deputy to the National People's Congress, assistant to the general manager of China Electronics and executive deputy director of the Digital Office, suggested that the construction of rural ecological services should be "empowered" by the industrial Internet, continue to promote the parallel development of "offline help smart cabinet + online consumption help platform", and continuously increase the project of smart retail service terminals going to the countryside to further promote the integration and development of urban and rural digital economy.
Accelerate the deep integration of the digital economy and manufacturing industry
In summary, the digital economy has become a new driving force for China's current economic growth, and the industrial Internet plays an irreplaceable role in it. However, what cannot be ignored is that, as industry experts said, the digital transformation of mainland enterprises and industries is still in its infancy, especially the degree of digitalization in manufacturing and other fields needs to be improved, so the next step is to accelerate the deep integration of the digital economy and manufacturing industry, which will become an important direction for the development of the mainland digital economy in the future.
From the policy level, the state has put the deep integration of the digital economy and manufacturing industry to improve the agenda. At the end of 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other "14th Five-Year" Intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan clearly put forward that it is necessary to accelerate the large-scale deployment of new network infrastructure such as the industrial Internet, support large group enterprises and industrial parks, and establish unique industrial Internet platforms around internal resource integration, product life cycle management, industrial chain supply chain collaboration, small and medium-sized enterprise services, and industrial data processing and analysis, so as to achieve the effective integration and management of all elements and the whole industry chain data. One of the main goals of work in 2025 is to build a standard system and network infrastructure that adapts to the development of intelligent manufacturing, complete the formulation and revision of more than 200 national and industry standards, and build more than 120 industrial Internet platforms with industry and regional influence.
It is understood that in fact, as of the end of August last year, there were more than 100 industrial Internet platforms with certain industry and regional influence in China, and the total number of connected industrial equipment reached 76 million units (sets). This means that in the next few years (2022-2025), at least 20 more industrial Internet platforms with industrial and regional influence need to be built, which is both opportunities and challenges for industrial Internet companies.
Win-win cooperation has become an important driving force for enterprises to achieve sustainable development
As the first quarter of 2022 draws to a close, we have sorted out and analyzed the latest technical solutions and signed cooperation projects of eight leading domestic industrial Internet platform companies in various fields of manufacturing. These leading enterprises are intensively laying out their respective industrial Internet platform product lines and technical solutions, including research and development of new products, cooperation contracts and capital increase financing.
Oriental Guoxin and XCMG Information have respectively deployed products and projects in mine production and operation management, launched their respective database series products and coal mine intelligent comprehensive control platforms; Aerospace Cloud Network and Inspur Cloud have launched technical solutions in the chemical industry, and Aerospace Cloud Guizhou Company's phosphorus chemical production intelligent scheduling APP application solution is aimed at the prominent problems in the phosphorus chemical industry, using new industrial Internet technologies such as edge computing, digital twins, and mechanism models to empower traditional data collection, monitoring, Analysis and feedback to reduce the amount of phosphorus gypsum produced in the process of phosphoric acid production; Inspur Cloud launched the "N+1+2" hazardous chemical safety production cloud, through the dual prevention mechanism information control, special operation of the whole process of information management and video surveillance, automatic positioning of personnel, intelligent video surveillance, enterprise safety production full element management and other information technology, strengthen the monitoring and early warning of accident-prone parts and links in the enterprise park.
It is not difficult to see that the security control of special industries such as chemical industry and mining is still the main battlefield of the industrial Internet platform. At the same time, logistics warehousing, public safety, etc. have also become the "place of use" of the industrial Internet platform, and the digital management of enterprise warehousing and logistics, and the production safety service of industrial enterprises have become an important part of the next enterprise technology research and development direction.
At the same time, it can also be peeked at from the table, the cooperation projects between industrial Internet platform enterprises and leading enterprises in the industrial chain are gradually increasing, and the development pace of upstream and downstream enterprises "building chains, supplementing chains, extending chains, and strong chains" will accelerate in the future, and the development model of strong and strong cooperation and win-win cooperation is an important driving force for industrial Internet platform enterprises to achieve sustainable development. For the current digital transformation and research and development pain points of small and medium-sized enterprises, including the transformation dilemma of "insufficient funds, lack of talents and lack of technology", industrial Internet platform enterprises must also actively respond.
Recently, Yulong, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that supporting leading enterprises in the industry to build a digital empowerment platform for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, by the end of 2022, it is necessary to provide digital transformation services for no less than 100,000 small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the business of 100,000 small and medium-sized enterprises to go to the cloud. This further shows that the market development space of the industrial Internet platform in the future is huge, and only by actively and continuously exploring can enterprises better consolidate the foundation for the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry and contribute to the high-quality development of the mainland economy.
Source: Central enterprise financing platform
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