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Qingdao, a coastal city in Shandong province, aims to develop the industrial internet. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY
Qingdao: Platforms boost industries
From page 1 engage in the industrial process new infrastructure, including 5G, of worldleading enterprises, across 15 vertical industries, artificial intelligence and the including home appliance com Wang added that the industrial including manufacturing, agri industrial internet, to offset the pany Hisense, Tsingtao Brewery internet is not only an intercon culture, clothing, culture and negative economic impact of the Co and CRRC Qingdao Sifang, a nected network, but also “an eco tourism. Vertical industry refers pandemic and drive sustainable subsidiary of China Railway Roll logical system that is alive”. It to a group of companies focusing longterm growth. ing Stock Corp. connects every industrial proc on a shared niche or specialized Alex Sinclair, chief technology In recent years, the local gov ess, from consumption to produc market spanning a number of officer for the Global System for ernment has made significant tion, and enables intelligent industries. Mobile Communications Associ investments in hightech indus interaction across industry. In the textile industry, COSMO ation, an industry alliance, said: tries, including information “This is especially the case Plat’s subsidiary platform Haizhi “China is betting big on the indus technology, biotechnology, new when COVID19 has caused a yun recently helped a clothing trial internet of things to increase materials and highend equip loosening of relations globally company in Weihai, Shandong productivity and drive efficiency ment manufacturing. This has among industry chains, province, to undergo a digitalized by streamlining and automating led to the city attracting technol upstream and downstream transformation. As a result, the manufacturing processes via ogy startups and wellknown chains, market supply and company can now carry out ware internet connectivity. Backed by hightech companies such as demand. Its impact will inevita house management, intelligent positive government support, Huawei Technologies Co, Ten bly lead to the reconstruction of retrieval and sorting, and auto China is set to become the world’s cent Holdings and artificial global supply chains, value matic inventory on the internet. leader (in this field).” intelligence companies iFlytek chains, industrial chains and Ni Guangnan, an academician According to the association, and Megvii. even market patterns,” he said. with the Chinese Academy of by 2025, there will be 13.8 billion Last year, investment in Qing “The world badly needs a plat Engineering, said, “The industri industrial internet of things con dao rose by 21.6 percent yearon form that can connect supply and al internet uses the internet and nections worldwide, with China year, ranking first among the demand, integrate upstream and technologies to optimize the tra accounting for some 4.1 billion of country’s 35 major cities. Invest downstream industrial chains, ditional industrial process, great them, or onethird of the global ment in strategic emerging and optimize resource allocation ly improving production market. industries and hightech manu to empower industries and enter efficiency. Latest data from the Ministry of facturing rose by 24 percent and prises. The industrial internet is “In the long term, it will boost Industry and Information Tech nearly 27 percent respectively. such a platform.” competitiveness of China’s manu nology show that more than 70 In the first three quarters of Zhou Yunjie, president of Haier facturing on the global stage.” influential industrial internet plat this year, despite challenges Group, said the industrial inter In Xi’an, Shaanxi province, forms have been built nationwide. posed by the pandemic, Qingdao net mainly uses the advantage of COSMOPlat enabled a clothing Some 40 million sets of equipment achieved GDP of 873.9 billion leading internet technologies to manufacturer to embed intelli are connected to the industrial yuan, a 2.2 percent yearonyear reshape all elements of the indus gent manufacturing technologies Top: Robotic arms play with a Rubik’s Cube at an international internet and the number of related rise. trial sector, and can improve “the in all its machinery, which helped software fair in Qingdao last year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY apps exceeds 250,000. Kong Hanning, former head of ‘whole process’ and ‘all elements’”. it produce 60,000 sets of custom Above: Workers assemble washing machines at Haier Group in With the industrial internet the German Academy of Science “The term ‘whole process’ ized products a year. the city. WANG PEIKE / FOR CHINA DAILY gradually being viewed as the key and Engineering, also known as means that clients or users can be Through using industrial inter to higherlevel development, cit Acatech, said, “Qingdao’s indus involved in every step, including net technologies, the manufactur ies across China, including trial internet platform has cov product design, research and er has improved its production from all over the world into one To date, the platform, which is Chongqing, Hangzhou and Shen ered almost all the concepts development, production, manu efficiency by about 28 percent, and network. In this way, a large, glob based in Qingdao, has attracted yang, Liaoning province, have described in the fourth genera facturing, sales and marketing,” by shortening the delivery period al ecosystem is formed.” 340 million users, 3.9 million eco stepped up efforts to develop the tion of industrialization. he said. “‘All elements’ refers to from 45 working days to seven, it system partners and has become technology. “The city has an edge in the eco connecting humans, equipment, has reduced its annual average Platform advances one of the top industrial internet Wang, the Qingdao Party sec system of globalized industries data and technology.” costs of 1.8 million yuan COSMOPlat is also playing a platforms globally, after those retary, said, “The city has a and has attracted many partners For example, COSMOPlat, Hai ($259,000). vital role in providing medical operated by General Electric Co wellstructured industrial sys around the world.” er’s industrial internet platform, Zhou said, “The industrial supplies made around the world and Siemens. tem covering 36 of all 41 indus is a largescale customization internet has immeasurable value to locations where they are badly This year, China has called for trial categories.” Contact the writers at platform that allows users to in weaving individual resources needed. accelerated efforts to develop Qingdao is home to a number [email protected]
Left: Haier Group introduces an upgraded version of its industrial internet platform COSMOPlat at an expo in Hannover, Germany, last year. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY Center: Underwater robots go on view at an international ocean technology exhibition in Qingdao in September. LIANG XIAOPENG / XINHUA Right: A model of an updated highspeed train is displayed at the software fair in the city last year. LI ZIHUAN / XINHUA ‘Dual circulation’ economic development pattern to make further use of city’s potential
By WANG YU, XIE CHUANJIAO between north reforms to prepare new growth separated from a capable govern number of modern service enter play a bigger role in improving and CHENG YU in Qingdao, Shandong ern and south engines, including developing the ment and every capable govern prises, professionals and institu exchanges of capital, technology, tal ern areas of the industrial internet and establishing a ment needs to respect the market tions from Shanghai, including ent and information between east China’s “dual circulation” eco country, as well market allocation promotion office in rules,” he said. those in the fields of finance, ship ern and western areas,” Zhao said. nomic development pattern will fur as eastern and 17 government departments dealing “If the market mechanism is not ping, trade, hightech services, cul In August last year, Qingdao ther release Qingdao’s potential and western regions. with economic affairs. perfect, then the government should tural tourism and business services, became a key part of the China prompt the city to play a pivotal role “Qingdao can “The aim is to prompt the gov cultivate the market, instead of arrived in Qingdao to invest and (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone, in China’s higherlevel openingup, play such a role, ernment to better understand the replacing it. More efforts are needed settle in the city. one of six new free trade zones set up according to its top official. Wang Qingxian as it is a devel market, respect and use the laws of from the government to fill the void Zhao Zhongxiu, president of nationwide. Wang Qingxian, Party secretary of oped eastern the market, and further improve when the market cannot adjust itself Shandong University of Finance Wang, the Qingdao Party secre Qingdao, said the pattern will give coastal area and also an economic the market operating mechanism,” effectively in some fields.” and Economics, said Qingdao and tary, said, “Shandong is the only full play to Qingdao’s unique dual marine gateway to nine provinces Wang said. Qingdao has sent the first batch of Shandong province should focus on coastal province among the nine role of opening wider to the rest of and regions in the Yellow River “Not all reforms can be called 51 government cadres to carry out institutional innovation and find a provinces in the Yellow River Basin, the world and driving economic Basin,” he said. reforms. Only those that conform to professional training at modern ser unique method for highquality eco while Qingdao is the bridgehead for development in northern China. “Qingdao can help drive overall the natural laws of the market and vice industry enterprises and orga nomic growth by using their key Shandong opening up to the world. The “dual circulation” pattern economic development in northern unleash productivity can be sode nizations in Shanghai. locations and abundant resources. “As a new important strategic piv focuses on the domestic market as a China. Compared with the south, scribed,” he added. “This is part of the city’s reforms “The province should use its free ot for international cooperation mainstay, with the domestic and for there is insufficient overall vitality The way in which the government to actively link up with Shanghai’s trade zone opportunities to become under the Belt and Road Initiative eign markets expected to comple in northern China due to a lack of positions itself for reforms based on modern service industry to build an more involved in regional economic and the New Eurasian Land Bridge ment each other. reforms.” the market will determine whether important northern hub to promote cooperation between China, Japan economic corridor, the city will play Wang said “domestic circulation” To solve this problem, Qingdao has they succeed, he said. domestic circulation,” Wang said. and South Korea, as well as the Belt a key role in promoting crossre aims to share mutual benefits launched a series of marketoriented “Any effective market cannot be In less than two months, a large and Road Initiative. It should also gional cooperation.”