Economic Daily:
We have noticed that, in recent years, the Zhejiang sub-forum of the WIC has always been themed on innovation and breakthroughs of the industrial Internet. Zhejiang is a manufacturing powerhouse and a major province in regard to digital economy. Could you please give us a brief introduction about the development of the industrial Internet in the province? Thank you.
Zhu Guoxian:
Thank you for paying attention to Zhejiang's industrial Internet. At the 4th WIC in 2017, Zhejiang provincial government and the MIIT signed a cooperation agreement to jointly promote development of the industrial Internet, and jointly establish its supporting network, platform and security systems. After more than three years of effort, development in the province has moved into the fast lane. According to a report on China's digital development released by the Cyberspace Administration of China last year, Zhejiang ranked first in the industrial digitalization development index.
As I mentioned previously, Zhejiang's GDP in the first three quarters increased by 2.3% year-on-year, and the development of the industrial Internet contributed a great deal. Zhejiang is making efforts to build a "1+N" platform system of the industrial Internet. "1" refers to the supET platform selected in the list of the country's top 10 cross-industry and interdisciplinary platforms, and honored as a world leading Internet scientific and technological achievement. "N" means to establish a batch of multi-level and systematic N-level platforms with high quality covering 10 iconic industrial chains, and 17 key traditional manufacturing industries and major industrial clusters. By doing so, we will preliminarily achieve the development target of "building one key platform for one industry, and one key platform for one field."
By the end of this year, the "1+N" platform system in the province is expected to connect with 50 million pieces of industrial equipment, serve more than 100,000 industrial enterprises, and develop more than 30,000 integrated industrial APP applications. Since Zhejiang features well-developed industrial clusters and has many SMEs, we explored and formed a business model enabling the platforms to help service providers, and the service providers to serve SMEs. The model has multiplied the service ability of industrial Internet platform, and promoted the digitalization transformation of SMEs on a large scale. In the first half year, thanks to the industrial Internet platform, we have supported a large number of enterprises to quickly resume production and work, matching supply and demand, providing material support, accelerating social production and operation to return to normal, and strongly supporting economic and social development as well as epidemic prevention and control.
Next, fully utilizing the dividends of the WIC and giving full play to Hangzhou's innovative technological application and Ningbo's advanced manufacturing, Zhejiang will form a development architecture of industrial Internet with Hangzhou and Ningbo as the dual-core and other cities developing in a coordinated way. We will widen and deepen the integrated application of the industrial Internet, and strive to build a national demonstration province in this regard. Thank you.
