“China aims to build 30 “fully connected” 5G factories in 10 key industries by 2023, as the country has fast-tracked industrial Internet development through integration with 5G technologies. Three to five industrial Internet platforms with international influence will come into being and a big data center for industrial Internet will be established by 2023, said an action plan on industrial Internet development for the next three years, which was unveiled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).”
The action plan indicated that the next three years (2021-2023) will be the period of the rapid growth of China’s industrial Internet. Intelligent manufacturing, network-based collaboration and personalized customization, examples of emerging busines formats will prevail during the period.
“The industrial Internet, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT) for industry, refers to the broader adoption of advanced technologies such as next-generation wireless networks, big data and artificial intelligence and IoT.”
According to MIIT data, it can be seen that in China, over 70 industrial internet platforms has already been nurtured into regional influence, linking about 60 million sets of industrial equipment and more than 400,000 industrial enterprises.
Source: China Daily