Industrial Parks to Get Digital Lift

Targeting the construction of 200 high-standard digital parks nationwide by 2027, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released new guidelines to accelerate the process of this vision.

According to the guidelines, digital transformation of industrial enterprises and the high-quality development of industrial parks are required to meet specific criteria, including a high level of industrial digitization, high-quality professional services, and high operational management efficiency.

The guidelines specify that industrial Internet applications should cover all sectors within the parks. They also call for significantly strengthening digital infrastructure, with full coverage of dual-gigabit networks, effectively deploying and well-utilizing computing power facilities, and notable improvements in data openness, sharing and security protection.

Four principal tasks are outlined, including advancing industrial digital transformation, enhancing digital services, improving digital management systems, and strengthening foundational digital support capabilities.

Among the key tasks, there is a call to cultivate model enterprises in digital transformation and accelerate the adoption of AI + manufacturing.

Companies are also encouraged to build smart factories in stages and expand the large-scale deployment of industrial robots and other intelligent equipment to drive productivity gains.

The guidelines promote chain-wide digital upgrades by supporting leading enterprises in digitizing supply-chain collaboration and opening application scenarios and technological capabilities to upstream and downstream partners.

In addition, there are plans to develop new data-driven services by creating platforms for data utilization and exploring the establishment of trusted data spaces to remove barriers to data sharing among multiple stakeholders, strengthen applications of AI+trusted data space, and spur data-service innovation across the parks.

To support this transformation within the parks, MIIT will leverage policy tools such as large-scale industrial equipment upgrade programs and pilot projects focused on digitization. These initiatives aim to accelerate the digital transformation and the matching of supply and demand.

Local governments, industry regulators, and park management bodies are urged to fully leverage their resources to provide policy support and secure key factors, including strategic resources such as industry data for development, while actively guiding private capital to participate in the construction of high-standard digital industrial parks.

Source: Science and Technology Daily