By Kate Yuan

Over 3,100 “5G + Industrial Internet” projects are in progress, including 700 newly added in the second quarter, a step further to deepen the integration of next-generation IT and manufacturing, according to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on July 19.

China’s identity resolution system of industrial Internet has been completed with the average daily analysis of top-level nodes reaching 150 million times. The second-level nodes cover 34 key industries in 29 provinces. The number of industrial equipment connected to key platforms has exceeded 79 million sets, and the industrial APP has exceeded 280,000. Wang Peng, official from MIIT’s Information and Communication Department, released these information at the  press conference.

“5G + Industrial Internet” can build new infrastructure, application model and industry ecosystem by connecting people, machines, objects, and systems through 5G. This is conducive to accelerating the process of China’s new types of industrialization and promoting intelligent manufacturing in the country, said Wang.

Earlier this year, the Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Action Plan (2021-2023) issued by the MIIT has clarified to promote industrial digitization and digital industrialization with the help of Industrial Internet in the next three years.

There are now 45 major categories of the Chinese economy that have integrated the industrial Internet applied in industry bases and parks, and key enterprises. Their industry scale has passed RMB1 trillion ($1,479 billion), according to MIIT.