Industrial Internet Industry Alliance: 2021 Industrial Internet Platform Empowering Industrial Chain and Supply Chain White Paper

At present, the industrial chain and supply chain have encountered unprecedented challenges. At the end of 2019, a sudden COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, and the originally booming world economy had to press the pause button; with the continuous intensification of Sino-US trade frictions, the originally fragile industrial chain and supply chain have become even more precarious. As a product of economic development, the industrial chain and supply chain have been affected by the above-mentioned development problems of the times, and "chain breaks" occur from time to time. The COVID-19 pandemic and the trade war have confirmed that the security and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain have irreplaceable value and are the core competitiveness in the post-epidemic era. In the face of the challenges of the development of the times, only a safe and stable industrial chain and supply chain can effectively cope with the complex and changing domestic and international political and economic environment.

Vigorously developing the industrial chain and supply chain is in line with my country's major strategic needs. With the formal proposal of my country's "14th Five-Year Plan", General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the names of industrial chain and supply chain as an overall concept for the first time in his proposal. Subsequently, the term industrial chain and supply chain entered the public eye and was reprinted in large quantities in a short period of time. It can be seen that the concept of industrial chain and supply chain has been highly valued by the central government and enterprises. At the same time, the "dual carbon" goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, which is planned by the Party Central Committee, is a major strategic decision made by my country after careful consideration. At present, the industrial chain and supply chain face challenges such as high energy consumption, high emissions, opaque carbon emission data, and the inability of carbon data to form assets in the field of carbon emission reduction. In the face of major national needs, it is necessary to effectively prevent the occurrence of "chain break" incidents, achieve the "dual carbon" goals, and make the industrial chain and supply chain autonomous and controllable.

Emerging technologies such as the Industrial Internet provide unprecedented opportunities for the development of safe and reliable industrial chain supply chains. Under traditional technical means, it is extremely difficult to achieve the above-mentioned safe, stable, and autonomous control of the industrial chain supply chain. Under the traditional discrete and isolated information model, system integration is difficult and costly, and technical difficulties such as big data analysis are insurmountable, making it difficult for corporate data to play a higher value. At present, a series of emerging technologies based on the Industrial Internet platform have emerged, such as the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, digital twins, etc. In the face of opportunities brought by technological innovation, the industrial chain supply chain should actively embrace technological innovation, integrate innovative technologies into its own development, and use the Industrial Internet platform as the cornerstone to create a new pattern of autonomous and controllable industrial chain supply chain development.

The industrial Internet platform is an industrial cloud platform that is oriented towards the digitalization, networking and intelligentization needs of the manufacturing industry, builds a service system based on massive data collection, aggregation and analysis, and supports the ubiquitous connection, flexible supply and efficient configuration of manufacturing resources. At present, there are hundreds of industrial Internet platforms of all kinds in the country, and the number of platforms with certain regional and industry influence exceeds 100. The total number of connected industrial equipment has reached 73 million sets, and the number of industrial apps has reached 403,000. The industrial Internet has four major characteristics: ubiquitous connection, cloud service, knowledge accumulation, and application innovation, which are the necessary conditions for the formation of the network structure of the industrial chain and supply chain. The industrial Internet empowers the industrial chain and supply chain with value as the core, driving the reconstruction and optimization of the industrial chain and supply chain; with "dual carbon" as the goal, creating a digital sustainable supply chain; based on data, supplementing and strengthening the chain to achieve domestic and international dual circulation; with management as a guarantee, focusing on organizational structure adjustment and employee adaptation. The industrial Internet empowers the industrial chain and supply chain, which will bring great changes to all walks of life like a tiger with wings.

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