Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released 15 national-level cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platforms (referred to as “dual cross-platforms”). The reporter found that Guangdong, as the first batch of national industrial Internet demonstration zones, has four platform companies selected this time, ranking first in the country in terms of number.

  The four platform companies are: Huawei, Foxconn, Shugen Internet, and Tencent. Among them, Tencent was selected for the first time.

  From “made in Guangdong” to “made in Guangdong”, a number of “national team” industrial Internet platforms have emerged. The entry of the four companies into the dual cross-platform represents an unprecedented opportunity for Guangdong. The operating income of Guangdong’s electronic information industry has exceeded 4 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for many years. Industrial Internet will become another new engine that boosts the quality and efficiency of the real economy.

The inclusion of the four companies on the dual cross-platform platform is not only an affirmation of Guangdong’s advantages in this field, but also a reflection of the high expectations placed on Guangdong.

“The new generation of electronic information industry has the most technological and scale advantages in Guangdong.” Wang Jun, director of the Economic Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, believes that from the perspective of the industry cycle, electronic information is the largest and most basic in the next round of economic demand. It is also the easiest to “realize” in Guangdong, and it should take this to seize the new round of industrial revolution.

  At the same time, Guangdong is also facing the problem of transformation and upgrading of traditional industries: Guangdong manufacturing, which started from the “three to one supplement”, still has a large number of workshops and assembly lines in the semi-automated stage, and it is urgent to achieve efficiency improvement through digital transformation.

  This also implies the possible direction of regional coordinated development: through the technological advantages of the core area of ??the Pearl River Delta, promote the upgrading of traditional industries in other regions, and realize the development of cross-industry and cross-regional economic integration.

  There is another trend behind the establishment of this direction: as the industry develops toward intelligence and products are upgraded toward mass customization, consumer terminals have an increasing impact on the industry chain. As an increasingly important consumer market, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area uses digital means to seamlessly connect consumer demand with industrial development, which has become an important driving force for many traditional enterprises to upgrade.

In the words of Deng Quwen, a senior expert at the Regional Research Center of Alibaba Group, from the perspective of the Internet, more attention is now paid to the consumer market’s leading production and manufacturing, and consumer resources are increasingly becoming a strategic asset, which plays a leading role in the entire industrial development process. .

  With these four dual cross-platforms, how can Guangdong promote more manufacturing companies to “go to the cloud and go to the platform”? The Cantonese Reviewer learned from the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology that Guangdong will focus on strategic industrial clusters and deepen the application of 5G+ industrial Internet.

  It can be seen that the combination of 5G and AI technology is an important direction for the next round of industrial Internet applications. Zhang Shunmao, senior vice president of Huawei, also said that Huawei’s industrial Internet platform is based on network interconnection and provides comprehensive and in-depth perception of industrial data. In his view, industrial knowledge and AI are deeply integrated, and 5G promotes industrial enterprises to accelerate the realization of the Internet of Everything.

  In recent years, Guangdong has attached great importance to the development of the industrial Internet. In 2018, Guangdong took the lead in issuing the “Implementation Plan and Supporting Policies for Deepening the Internet + Advanced Manufacturing Industry and Accelerating the Development of the Industrial Internet”, positioning the Industrial Internet as a new engine that promotes the quality and efficiency of the real economy.

  As of now, Guangdong has promoted more than 15,000 industrial enterprises to implement digital transformation using industrial Internet technology, and drove 500,000 enterprises to “go online and use the cloud” to reduce costs and improve quality and efficiency.

  If 5G and AI technologies are the focus of the industrial Internet, how to build a complete industrial Internet industry system is an important task for the “national team” to cross-platform, and it is also a shortcoming that needs to be broken through.

  Chen Yu, a researcher at the Intelligent Manufacturing Institute of the Guangdong Academy of Sciences, believes that behind the development boom of the Industrial Internet, there are still many challenges in some key core technologies:

First, the basic technology of the Industrial Internet is relatively weak, and the market for high-end industrial control equipment, high-end industrial software, and industrial network protocol is monopolized by foreign manufacturers; second, many industrial equipment data is not open and lacks unified standardization, and the ability to “go to the cloud on the platform” is insufficient; Third, the formulation of application standards lags behind, and the number of industrial APPs is small, especially the number of popular industrial APPs that can be widely used.

“To build an industrial Internet innovation ecosystem, it is necessary to start from the top-level design, release the key core technology innovation roadmap as soon as possible, organize the implementation of the industrial Internet innovation development project, and guide more social forces and capital to participate in the key core technology innovation chain. “Chen Yu said.