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The industrial Internet is an important means for making Chinese manufacturing smarter and more information-driven; it will accelerate the transformation from \"Made in China\" to \"Smart Made in China\" and promote high-quality development of the real economy. “In the process of building our country into a manufacturing powerhouse, the industrial Internet serves as the underlying infrastructure. Since the direction of transformation and upgrading in the manufacturing sector is intelligent production and mass customization, developing the industrial Internet is a necessary pathway and fundamental element for industrial intelligence. ”Sun Huifeng, deputy secretary-general of the China Computer Industry Association and president of CCID Consulting Co., Ltd., said. file:///C:\Users\Zhuang\AppData\Local\Temp\ksohtml\wps237F.tmp.png How can manufacturing enterprises \"embrace\" the industrial Internet? Zhang Youming, general manager of UFIDA Jingzhi’s industrial Internet business unit, believes that there are roughly three paths: The first is to replace workers with machines; as labor resources become scarce and intelligent equipment becomes more advanced, many industrial enterprises are building smart factories to improve production efficiency, thereby replacing the traditional labor dividend with the benefits brought by machines ； The second is online task execution, which involves carrying out business operations online with upstream and downstream partners in the industrial chain, or remotely controlling devices, in order to improve coordination efficiency and optimize resource allocation ； Third is algorithm-driven decision-making, which uses large amounts of data and machine learning to improve the efficiency of corporate decision-making. In early February, the Shuguang Tianjin factory received an urgent request from the epidemic area. With the support of intelligent production lines such as automated assembly lines, robots, and smart vertical warehouses, hundreds of IT devices including servers were quickly delivered to the front lines of epidemic prevention and control within just a few days. Zhang Yinghua, vice president of Inspur and chief engineer for intelligent manufacturing, explained that the ability of Inspur’s Tianjin factory to resume production so quickly was thanks to the company’s long-term research and investment in the industrial Internet. During the pandemic, JD.com utilized its intelligent supply chain to help manufacturing companies make online purchases, enable reverse customization, and improve collaborative efficiency. For example, JD.com makes its exclusive online procurement platform available to various manufacturing enterprises free of charge. It allows for rapid online setup within 2 hours, and it offers functions such as sourcing options, online contract creation, fast approval processes, automatic reconciliation, and self-service invoicing. These features help reduce the traditional procurement processes and timelines for manufacturing enterprises by 40%, thereby **improving the efficiency of capacity restoration. The industrial Internet has been applied in various sectors of the manufacturing industry, effectively driving its transformation and upgrading and giving rise to new sources of growth. Typical large enterprises improve data utilization through integration, developing complete production systems and management process applications, thereby significantly enhancing their level of intelligence. Small and medium-sized enterprises, through industrial internet platforms, can address their shortcomings in digital capabilities at lower costs and in a more flexible manner. A favorable trend of integrated development among large, medium, and small enterprises, as well as across the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, is accelerating. Industrial integration gives rise to new business models. Xie Chuanjun, general manager of the Solutions Department at 360 City Safety Group, said that industrial Internet platforms enable real-time monitoring of the production processes and equipment conditions of different types of enterprises. In the future, both chemical companies and those involved in intelligent manufacturing are likely to pose serious threats to urban safety, and it is then essential to rely on the industrial Internet. Sun Huifeng emphasized that the industrial internet has room for integrated development in connection with other areas of new infrastructure construction. Among these, it integrates with 5G base station construction to form \"5G + industrial Internet\" applications; it combines with ultra-high voltage systems and new energy vehicle charging stations to create smart grid applications; it merges with intercity high-speed railways to develop intelligent rail transit systems; it integrates with data centers to give rise to industrial cloud and big data applications; and it combines with artificial intelligence to produce industrial intelligence applications. “The industrial Internet plays an important role as a connector in the ‘new infrastructure’. ”Liu Xu, senior vice president of Zhongcheng Think Tank, believes that the industrial Internet makes full use of next-generation information technologies such as 5G, big data centers, and artificial intelligence to enhance its enabling capabilities. At the same time, as a new type of infrastructure that integrates new technologies and models such as big data and artificial intelligence, the industrial Internet will provide new impetus for economic and social development. For this reason, Lenovo, which has provided industrial Internet products and solutions to over a hundred enterprises, introduced a new intelligent infrastructure last year – the “edge-cloud-network-intelligence” model – aimed at fully integrating new technologies such as IoT devices, cloud computing, data centers, and 5G networks. “On top of this infrastructure, intelligent applications are used to empower various industries. ”Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, said. Among Tencent’s industrial Internet application cases, industrial intelligence applications integrated with artificial intelligence stand out significantly. For example, Tencent Cloud and COMAC jointly developed AlphaGo (an artificial intelligence robot) for composite material testing. Previously, inspecting the composite materials of an aircraft’s tail fin required several technicians to spend hours on the task, at a cost of hundreds of thousands of yuan. With Tencent’s artificial intelligence-assisted inspection system, only one inspector is needed, and the process takes just a few minutes; the cost is reduced, while the overall defect detection rate reaches 99%. Comprehensively enhancing corporate resilience: \"The industrial internet has played an important role in preventing and controlling epidemics as well as in supporting enterprises in resuming operations.\" ”Xin Yongfei, director of the Policy and Economics Research Institute at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said. Zhang Youming said that the industrial Internet can enhance the resilience of industrial enterprises, including addressing issues such as disruptions in their supply chains and assisting them with financing. During the pandemic, Hunan UFIDA offered over 20 cloud services for free through the Hunan Jingzhi Industrial Internet Platform. It also established an online service portal for enterprises returning to work, providing services such as health checks for workers returning to work in order to combat the pandemic, assistance with supply chain management, support for corporate financing and loans, remote work solutions, remote equipment maintenance, safety measures, and logistics services. An important application area for the industrial Internet platform developed by Tencent is to serve small and medium-sized enterprises in various regions; by working together with partners, it offers services such as supply chain finance, real-time supply chain management, and cloud-based equipment management, thereby helping these enterprises overcome difficulties in accessing financing and reducing their costs. “The application of industrial Internet in various fields in our country is flourishing in diverse ways. Many technology-intensive and capital-intensive industries have received substantial support in terms of funding, policies, and talent; industries such as machinery, steel, chemicals, and electronics have developed rapidly and make extensive use of practices in areas like equipment management, product management, and customized production. ”Willow fluff said. According to Sun Huifeng, in 2019 the total market size of China’s industrial Internet reached 610.91 billion yuan, representing a year-on-year increase of 14%. As the cloud service ecosystem continues to mature, and with the implementation of policies aimed at encouraging the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector, domestic manufacturing companies are increasing their investment in information technology. As a result, the industrial Internet market has entered a phase of rapid growth. Xin Yongfei predicts that in 2020, the value added of China’s industrial Internet industry will be around 3.1 trillion yuan, accounting for 2.9% of GDP, with its contribution to economic growth exceeding 11%. Among them, the added value of the core industries will reach 652 billion yuan, while the economic added value generated through integration will amount to 2.49 trillion yuan.