On September 9, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held the sixth conference of the “New Era Industry and Information Development” series “Accelerating the digital, networking and intelligent development of Manufacturing Industry” to introduce the work of promoting the digital transformation of manufacturing industry, developing intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet since the 18th National Congress of the Party, and answered reporters’ questions.

The relevant person in charge pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the digital, networked and intelligent development of China’s manufacturing industry has accelerated and the overall trend has continued to improve. The foundation for digital transformation has been consolidated, the industrial Internet has developed rapidly, the construction of networks, platforms, security and other systems has been continuously improved, and the industrial scale has exceeded the trillion yuan mark, becoming a key support for promoting industrial digital transformation.

The intelligent manufacturing project was further implemented, and key industries such as automobiles, petrochemicals, home appliances, and pharmaceuticals developed in an all-round way. The scale of intelligent manufacturing equipment industry is nearly 3 trillion yuan, and the market satisfaction rate exceeds 50%.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has cultivated eight national industrial Internet industry demonstration bases, selected 381 pilot demonstration projects, and promoted the industrial Internet to penetrate into thousands of enterprises and parks, and accelerated the empowerment of thousands of industries. At present, the industrial Internet has been fully integrated into 45 national economic categories, helping the digital transformation and upgrading of major pillar industries such as manufacturing, energy, mining, and electricity.

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“Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has actively carried out pilot demonstration actions for intelligent manufacturing, exploring effective paths for the digital transformation of regions, industries and enterprises.” Wang Zhen, deputy director of the first Department of equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly with the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the General Administration of Market Supervision selected 110 intelligent manufacturing demonstration factories, and refined nearly 1,200 excellent scenes. More than 1,700 digital workshops/smart factories leading the development of the industry and more than 5,500 regional leading enterprises have been cultivated, and the enthusiasm of local, industrial and enterprise implementation of intelligent manufacturing has continued to increase.

In the past ten years, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has accelerated the digitalization, networking and intelligent development of the manufacturing industry. Wang Jianwei, deputy director of the Information technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that as of the second quarter of this year, the numerical control rate of key processes and the penetration rate of digital research and development and design tools of industrial enterprises in the country reached 55.7% and 75.1%, respectively, an increase of 31.1 and 26.3 percentage points over 2012.

Wang Jianwei pointed out that the intelligent manufacturing project has been implemented in depth, all localities have actively explored regional promotion models with their own characteristics, and key industries such as automobiles, petrochemicals, home appliances, and pharmaceuticals have developed in an all-round way. The scale of intelligent manufacturing equipment industry is nearly 3 trillion yuan, and the market satisfaction rate exceeds 50%.

The manufacturing sector is increasingly capable of endogenous innovation. The integration of new technologies such as 5G, AR/VR, and artificial intelligence with the manufacturing sector is accelerating. New products, models, and business forms such as industrial-grade drones, wearable smart equipment, and collaborative R&D and design, digital factories, smart mines, and shared manufacturing are booming. New business forms such as gig economy and platform economy are growing.

Wang Jianwei introduced that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in-depth implementation of the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry and intelligent manufacturing projects, at present, the implementation of the integration of the two management system has a total of more than 57,000 enterprises, manufacturing digital network intelligent pilot demonstration projects more than 1,500, the number of industrial apps reached 283,200. It has cultivated nearly 100 suppliers whose main business income exceeds 1 billion yuan, and its service scope covers more than 90% of manufacturing fields such as automobile, textile and medicine.

“However, we must also see that most enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, still face practical difficulties in technology, capital and talent when promoting smart manufacturing.” Wang Zhen pointed out that the next step, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will deepen the demonstration mechanism, focus on raw materials, equipment manufacturing, consumer goods, electronic information and other areas of the subsector industry, around the design, production, management, service and other manufacturing processes, mining a number of low-cost, modular, landing, easy to promote and promote the significance of the strong intelligent manufacturing typical scenes, the construction of subsector intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory. Explore ways to promote best practices in intelligent manufacturing.

Build a good intelligent manufacturing public service platform, accelerate the precipitation of pilot demonstration experience results, accelerate the revision of key standards and publicity and promotion, and promote the formation of standards and pilot demonstration iterative optimization, mutual promotion and progress of the work pattern. Accelerate the cultivation of system solution suppliers, promote standardized development, and guide the provision of professional, high-level, one-stop integrated services.

At the same time, “increase publicity and promotion efforts, strengthen the experience summary of pilot demonstration actions, prepare excellent case sets of demonstration factories, carry out a series of publicity activities by industry and region, and use the World Intelligent Manufacturing Conference, the World Intelligent Conference,” Smart Manufacturing China “financial media activities, etc., to publicize and promote new technologies, new equipment and excellent scenes of intelligent manufacturing.” Wang Zhen said.