The scale of China’s industrial Internet industry has exceeded RMB1 trillion (about $149 billion), Xinhua reported on June 17.  

There are currently more than 150 influential industrial Internet platforms in China, linking more than 78 million sets of industrial equipment and serving more than 1.6 million industrial enterprises, according to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said the Xinhua report.

China’s industrial Internet is entering the fast lane of development, said Long Guoqiang, deputy head of the Development Research Center of the State Council on the 2022 International Conference on the Industrial Internet held via video link on June 15. 

Major industrial countries regard digital transformation as a strategic choice to build new competitive advantages, and the industrial Internet is a significant path for industrial digital transformation, said Wei Yiyin, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Advanced industrial Internet platforms and tools such as INDICS-OS, an industrial Internet operating system developed by CASIC, were launched at the conference.

The INDICS platform has linked more than 1.7 million devices, supported 179 kinds of industrial protocols, provided more than 18,000 industrial APPs, and served 336,000 enterprises.