2022-01-14 15:42 Source: Economic Daily article

Unmanned driving is used in extremely cold mining areas, remote control is carried out in smart ports, and unmanned intelligent patrol inspection is realized in the transmission link... "5G+industrial Internet" is accelerating its integration into thousands of industries, enabling the transformation and upgrading of the real economy in digital, networked and intelligent ways.

At present, China's "5G+Industrial Internet" has formed 20 typical application scenarios in ten key industries. Xiao Yaqing, minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that in 2022, it will focus on manufacturing, mining, power, ports, medical and other key industries, deeply explore the typical application scenarios of "5G+industrial Internet" production line level and workshop level, and create a batch of 5G fully connected factory benchmarks.

Consolidate the foundation of integration

To promote the integrated development of "5G+industrial Internet", infrastructure should take the lead. At present, the three functional systems of industrial Internet network, platform and security in China have begun to take shape.

Wang Peng, Deputy Director of the Information and Communication Administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that at present, there are more than 1800 projects under construction of "5G+Industrial Internet", and five national top nodes and 158 secondary nodes of logo resolution have been put into operation, with a total number of logo registrations of nearly 60 billion; There are more than 100 influential industrial Internet platforms and more than 76 million sets of connected equipment; The national security situational awareness platform has been fully integrated with 31 provincial-level systems, significantly enhancing its capabilities in situational awareness, risk warning, and basic resource aggregation.

As of the end of November 2021, China has built over 1.39 million 5G base stations and over 2300 virtual private networks and hybrid private networks in the 5G industry, accelerating the formation of a 5G network system that meets industry needs.

China's "5G+Industrial Internet" development environment continues to improve, and has made great progress in policy system, technical standards, infrastructure, integrated applications and industrial ecology. Cao Jiguang, deputy director of the Institute of Technology and Standards of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications, said that central and local policy support continued to strengthen, investment and financing efforts increased, and 80% of the provinces have introduced support policies for "5G+industrial Internet".

How to continue to promote the construction of infrastructure related to "5G+Industrial Internet" in 2022? Xiao Yaqing said that he would accelerate the construction of 5G base stations and the large-scale development of industrial virtual private networks, and enhance the public service function of industrial Internet identity resolution system. Support enterprises to use 5G and other new network technologies and advanced and applicable technologies to transform and build enterprise intranets, support enterprise equipment on the cloud, and promote industrial Internet platforms to enter enterprises, parks, and industrial clusters.

Integration brings about intelligent transformation

"5G+Industrial Internet" has become an important driving force for enabling the transformation and upgrading of digitalization, networking and intelligence in all walks of life. The complementary effect of the two advantages is emerging rapidly, which is bringing intellectual change to all walks of life.

Inoue is the ground command center staff wearing work uniforms, and is the real-time data jumping on the screen of the intelligent control command center; Underground, it is an automatic inspection robot equipped with 5G network and an efficient transportation "ride hailing" trackless rubber wheeled vehicle... Jinneng Holdings Coal Industry Group Tashan Coal Mine, together with Shanxi Unicom and Huawei, has achieved a smart transformation of mechanization, automation, informatization, and intelligence.

The steel bridge intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory built by China Railway Industry through the Inspur intelligent manufacturing solution has taken the lead in introducing 5G technology. Taking the production line of the top plate unit, an important component of steel bridges, as a pilot, a 5G intelligent workshop has been constructed, realizing the transformation from an "extensive factory" to a "digital transparent factory" and from innovative production to networked collaboration. The product delivery cycle has been shortened by 10%, and the comprehensive cost has been reduced by 5%.

"5G+Industrial Internet" is promoting the extension of platform based design, intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, service-oriented extension, digital management and other application models to more key industries, and has taken the lead in the layout of ten key industries, such as mining, steel, power, petrochemical and chemical industries. It has formed 20 typical application scenarios, such as remote equipment control, machine vision quality inspection, production efficiency control, and the role of benchmarking and demonstration is increasingly prominent.

Yang Jie, Chairman of China Mobile, said that after 5G was put into commercial use, the industrial Internet development pressed the fast forward button. At present, the industrial Internet industry system is more perfect and the service fields are more extensive, expanding from individual typical fields to key industries of the national economy such as steel, electricity, chemical industry, etc; The application process is more in-depth, from the production auxiliary process to the production core process, including 5G fully connected factories, machine vision inspection, etc.

The application of "5G+Industrial Internet" is moving from "model house" to "commercial house". Hu Houkun, the rotating chairman of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., believes that in the context of digital transformation, "5G+Industrial Internet" has entered a critical period when the industry has become more and more extensive and the application scenarios have become more and more popular.

The enabling path of "5G+Industrial Internet" is also increasingly clear. Basic telecommunications enterprises, industrial enterprises, and software enterprises have deeply cooperated to form diversified business models, and the "team competition" strategy has become more mature. Various regions focus on key characteristic industries, hold multiple industry on-site meetings, and serve local industrial upgrading.

Accelerate the release of potential

5G and industrial Internet are important supports for promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and cultivating and developing advanced manufacturing industries. At present, there are still a large number of traditional industrial enterprises in the digital, networked and intelligent transformation stage in China, and the industrial Internet will open up a broader space for 5G applications.

As for how to further expand the integrated application scenario of "5G+Industrial Internet", Xiao Yaqing said that he would adhere to the direction of intelligent manufacturing and comprehensively promote the industrialization and large-scale application of digital technologies such as 5G and Industrial Internet. Select a group of professional solution providers, build a group of 5G fully connected factories, optimize a group of industrial Internet platforms, create a group of composite expert talents, and drive the quality, efficiency and upgrading of thousands of industries.

"To speed up the release of the potential of '5G+Industrial Internet', we need to solve the problem of high prices of 5G industrial chip modules and eliminate the industrial bottleneck; Addressing the shortage of 5G terminals and continuously enriching 5G universal terminals and industry terminals; Further optimize the '5G+Industrial Internet' industrial public service platform. ”Yu Xiaohui, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said.

Xiao Yaqing stressed that the popularization of the application of "5G+Industrial Internet" should firmly hold the "bull nose" of technological innovation, and promote the integration, innovation and collaborative application of emerging technology groups. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on the supply of common industrial technologies, vigorously promote the "unveiling and leading" mechanism, give full play to the role of enterprises as innovation entities, and achieve rapid research and industrialization in fields such as industrial modules, sensors, and key software. At the same time, efforts will be made to activate the potential of data, accelerate the development of basic common standards such as industrial data interaction, explore the construction of data trading platforms, and improve the level of data management and development utilization.

"To promote the integrated development of '5G+Industrial Internet', data driven is the key. To achieve data acquisition, fast computation, and efficient use, connecting more devices, lowering the threshold for artificial intelligence, and developing industrial software are the key areas that should be focused on at this stage. ”Hu Houkun said.