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This year is the last year to implement the three-year action plan (2021-2023) for the innovative development of the industrial internet. According to the plan, leapfrog progress will be made in the overall development of the industrial internet during the three years. What will you focus on this year to achieve this goal? Thank you.

Zhao Zhiguo:

Thank you for your question. The industrial internet is the strategic infrastructure for a new type of industrialization. It also serves as a crucial base for the in-depth integration of the digital and real economy. Since implementing the action plan over two years ago, we have adopted a moderately proactive approach and completed the infrastructure building. The analysis system for industrial internet identification has covered 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and 40 sectors, providing services for over 250,000 enterprises. A multi-layered system consisting of comprehensive, featured, and professional industrial internet platforms has been developed. The amount of equipment connected to key platforms now exceeds 81 million. We have adopted a demand-oriented approach and further promoted integrated applications. The industrial internet has been applied to 45 national economic categories and 166 subcategories, covering over 85% of industrial categories. In the first quarter, we launched 218 industrial internet demonstration projects, including 5G factories, industrial internet parks, and public service platforms. We also created a batch of application models for factories and industrial parks in understanding and applying the industrial internet and enabling them to carry out the transformation with guts and knowledge so as to speed up digital transformation. Currently, the total output value of the core industry has surpassed 1.2 trillion yuan, increasing by 15.5% year on year.

Next, we will focus on large-scale application and high-quality development and prioritize three aspects: policies, technologies and applications. We will guide all regions and sectors to make greater efforts towards leapfrog development of the industrial internet, thus providing stronger support for advancing a new type of industrialization.

First, we will fully play the leading role of policies and strengthen institutional guarantees. We will formulate guidelines on the high-quality development of the industrial internet and advance the application of the "5G Plus Industrial Internet" in terms of industrial supply, in-depth application, and industrial cluster development to improve the top-level design. We will deepen the cooperation between industry and finance and the integration between industry and education, direct more investment from different types of capital, and cultivate high-level, versatile, and skilled talents to further create a sound development environment.

Second, we will pursue innovation-driven development and strive to make technological breakthroughs. We will launch a new round of innovative projects for industrial internet development, promote breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields of the industrial internet and their industrialization, break the bottleneck in technologies for large-scale application, and enhance the security capacity of the industrial internet. We will make and implement a batch of standards for emergency use and promote large-scale application with standardization. We will foster more diversified, high-quality and professional solutions to further enhance the supply capabilities of the industrial internet.

Third, we will advance coordination between industrial and supply chains and the industrial internet and move faster to promote large-scale use of industrial internet applications. We will actively promote close coordination between industrial and supply chains and the industrial internet. Focusing on key sectors, we will formulate guidelines on the integrated application of the industrial internet in key sectors such as electronic information and engineering machinery; moreover, we will advance the action to promote the application of the industrial internet identification to promote the wide application of the industrial internet in key industrial chains. By concentrating on key enterprises, we will give full play to the principal role of leading enterprises in bringing upstream and downstream enterprises, especially SMEs, to be integrated into the industrial internet. Focusing on key regions, we will launch the campaign to promote the application of the industrial internet in 1,000 industrial parks in 100 cities to advance the application of industrial internet in industrial parks and clusters of industries at a faster pace and bring about the emergence of more good cases for the large-scale application of the industrial internet. Thank you!