The world is entering a period of rapid development of the digital economy. New technologies, new business formats, and new platforms such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and smart cities are booming, profoundly affecting global technological innovation, industrial structure adjustment, and economic and social development. In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", our country has actively promoted digital industrialization and industrial digitization, accelerated digital transformation, and promoted the upgrading of traditional industries. The smart economy under deep integration is continuously injecting strong impetus into high-quality economic development.
The Industrial Internet facilitates transformation and upgrading
The essence of the Industrial Internet is to closely connect equipment, production lines, factories, suppliers, products and customers through an open and global industrial-grade network platform. It can effectively connect and integrate various factor resources in the industrial economy, thereby reducing costs and increasing efficiency through automated and intelligent production methods, helping the manufacturing industry to extend the industrial chain and promote the transformation and development of the manufacturing industry.
With the strong support of national and local policies, various industries, industries, and enterprises have "integrated" with the general trend, seized opportunities to carry out strategic layout, technological breakthroughs, ecological integration, etc., and continued to transform the digital economy. Inject new momentum. The development of my country's industrial Internet has achieved fruitful results and has shown a good trend of sustainable development.
Currently, there are more than 100 influential industrial Internet platforms in my country, with more than 76 million connected devices. These platforms continue to promote the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional manufacturing. As of the end of August this year, the numerical control rate of key processes in key manufacturing areas and the penetration rate of digital R&D and design tools reached 53.7% and 73.7% respectively, an increase of 30.1 and 25.4 points respectively compared with 2012. percentage point.
Artificial intelligence empowers the real economy
Artificial intelligence has huge potential in stabilizing investment, promoting consumption, assisting upgrading, cultivating new drivers of economic development, and creating new forms of smart economy. While our country has become the largest manufacturing country in the world, the real economy with manufacturing as the main body has achieved leapfrog development, and its industrial and technological capabilities are gradually catching up with the world's advanced level. The new economic normal requires the emergence of new momentum, promotes the deep integration of artificial intelligence and the real economy, and cultivates new growth points in the fields of mid-to-high-end consumption, innovation leadership, green and low carbon, shared economy, modern supply chain, human capital services, etc. , forming new momentum.
In recent years, the development of the artificial intelligence industry has achieved remarkable results. The number of enterprises and the scale of financing both rank second in the world, making it one of the major countries in the industrialization of artificial intelligence. It is deeply integrated with various fields such as industry, medical care, education, cultural tourism, urban management, and finance to continuously create new application scenarios. The application of technological innovations such as image recognition and speech recognition has entered the world's advanced ranks. The total number of artificial intelligence invention patent authorizations ranks first in the world. The scale of core industries continues to grow, and a complete industrial chain and applications covering the basic layer, technology layer and application layer have been formed. Ecology expands more space for the smart economy.
5G is integrated into thousands of industries
The accelerated construction of new infrastructure such as 5G has increasingly become a key driver to support the digital, networked, and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the real economy. Using 5G as a representative The new generation of information and communication technology builds new infrastructure, application models and industrial ecology that are deeply integrated with the industrial economy. It uses 5G technology to comprehensively connect people, machines, things and systems to build a new manufacturing industry covering the entire industry chain and the entire value chain. and service systems, providing new ways to realize the digital, networked, and intelligent development of industry and even industry, helping enterprises achieve cost reduction, quality improvement, efficiency increase, green, and safe development.
5G+medical, 5G+transportation, 5G+education... Nowadays, 5G-driven smart life application scenarios are emerging one after another. Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that at present, my country has built more than 1.15 million 5G base stations, accounting for more than 70% of the world. It is the world's largest and most technologically advanced 5G independent networking network. All prefecture-level cities and urban areas in the country, more than 97 % of counties and urban areas and 40% of towns and villages have achieved 5G network coverage; 5G end users have reached 450 million, accounting for more than 80% of the world. 5G technology is integrated into all industries and flies into thousands of homes, stimulating new demands, driving new consumption, and lighting up new lives.
As the country accelerates the transformation of the economy into a smart economy, smart economy will also become a new label for China's economy. Facing the stars and sea of ??smart economy, it will release new opportunities for manufacturers that actively invest in the research and development of new technologies and take advantage of artificial intelligence technology. Using this as a starting point, it will be deeply integrated with basic cloud computing, big data, 5G and other technologies to drive the intelligent transformation and upgrading of all walks of life, which will undoubtedly push the development of the smart economy into the fast lane.