The Chinese economy is entering a new cycle of high-quality growth and is at an important juncture of transforming the development model, optimizing the economic structure and shifting growth drivers. However, in the manufacturing industry, which plays the role of “engine” in the economy, there are still many problems such as low adaptation between supply and market demand, challenges in the stability of industrial chain and supply chain, and tight constraints on resources and environmental factors.
It is in this context that the industrial Internet has appeared in the government work report for five consecutive times, invisibly giving the optimal solution for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry: Through the industrial Internet to achieve ubiquitous connectivity, with equipment, personnel, raw materials and other production factors of data comprehensive collection, through the cloud services for in-depth data analysis, to achieve the precipitation and reuse of industrial knowledge, help enterprises digital transformation, improve the efficiency and competitiveness of enterprises, to achieve the development from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing power.
The “14th Five-Year Plan” intelligent Manufacturing Development Plan and other policies have been introduced, proposing that the penetration rate of industrial Internet platforms will reach 45% in 2025. The industrial Internet is a new type of infrastructure that supports the aggregation and allocation of all elements, the whole industrial chain and the whole value chain of the manufacturing industry, and has become an important force to promote industrial transformation and upgrading and promote high-quality economic development.