Recently, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the Research Report on China’s Digital Economy Development (2023) at the sixth Digital China Construction Summit. According to the report, the scale of China’s digital economy reached 50.2 trillion yuan in 2022, with a year-on-year nominal growth of 10.3%, which has been significantly higher than the nominal GDP growth in the same period for 11 consecutive years, and the digital economy accounted for 41.5% of GDP.

With the deepening understanding of the importance of digital transformation in various industries, the level of industrial digitalization has been comprehensively improved. Industrial digitization was accelerated, and new models and forms of business, such as shared manufacturing and service-oriented manufacturing, developed at a faster pace. The penetration rate of the industrial digital economy reached 24.0%, up 1.2 percentage points year on year and a record growth rate.

The Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China points out that building a digital China is an important engine for promoting Chinese-style modernization in the digital era, and proposes that “by 2035, the level of digital development will rank among the highest in the world and major achievements will be made in the construction of digital China”. The increase in the penetration rate of industrial digital economy means that a large number of cutting-edge digital achievements from the laboratory to the real life, the digital industry is becoming a new blue ocean, among which the development of industrial metacosmic technology is the most dazzling.

The industrial metaverse has become a new engine to unleash the dividends of the “digital economy”

In the latest Action Plan for Integrated Development of virtual reality and Industrial Applications (2022-2026) issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stressed that “virtual reality and augmented reality” have been listed as key industries in the digital economy in the 14th Five-Year Plan. In the next 10 years or even longer, the industrial metauniverse will become the core driving force for industrial upgrading, an important breakthrough for integrated innovation and a new engine for releasing digital dividends.

In recent years, more and more enterprises have begun to explore the application scenarios of the industrial metauniverse, and some leading enterprises have walked in the forefront of the industry. On April 28, the final of 2023 Digital China Innovation Competition was successfully held in Fuzhou. The Grand Final of the industrial space circuit attracted wide attention from the industry. After the strict evaluation of the expert judges from the government, academia and industry in multiple dimensions of “innovation, professionalism, practicability and promotion”, Hangzhou Lingpartner Technology & Ningde Nuclear Power team stood out from 307 teams and won the first prize in the grand Final.

Ningde Nuclear Power and Hangzhou Lingcompanion Technology through the construction of AR intelligent industry platform to solve the Ningde nuclear power plant human-computer interaction, remote expert support, virtual training, intelligent auxiliary maintenance, risk warning, plant tour intelligent inspection, remote witness acceptance and other scene requirements, achieve comprehensive labor cost reduction by 50%, work time reduction by 35%, acceptance efficiency increased by 50%, help Ningde nuclear The power station has become “the world’s first AR intelligent nuclear power station”.

As a new digital infrastructure, supported by a new platform system of “virtual-real integration” and driven by technological innovation, the industrial metauniverse is promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, promoting the digitalization, networking and intelligent transformation and upgrading of all links of the industrial value chain, and constantly improving the stability and competitiveness of the industrial chain.

Sword refers to 25 million XR terminals, the new generation of interactive revolution

According to the Action Plan, by 2026, the total scale of China’s virtual reality industry (including related hardware, software, applications, etc.) will exceed 350 billion yuan, and the sales volume of virtual reality terminals will exceed 25 million units.

As the entrance to the meta-universe,XR device is considered by many people as the next generation terminal device after mobile phone, and a better interactive experience terminal connecting people and the Internet. At present, in the industrial end, the application of AR hardware terminal undoubtedly has revolutionary potential, has become an important tool for industrial digital transformation.