(Shudu Shanghai) Zheng Zhongbin: Bridge-type innovation institutions boost the digital transformation of Shanghai's industry, connecting "dots" into "networks"

  Zhongxin Finance, January 10th Telegram: Bridge-type innovation institutions boost Shanghai's industrial digital transformation to connect "dots" into "networks" - Interview with Zheng Zhongbin, General Manager of Industrial Internet Innovation Center (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

  Author Fan Zhonghua

  For Shanghai, "industry" is not only a century-old glory, but also its profound industrial heritage and key focus in building an "international digital capital".

In 2020, Shanghai will take the lead and release the three-year action plan of "Working and Empowering Shanghai", proposing that by 2022, it will become a highland for the allocation of industrial Internet resources, innovation sources, industry leadership and open cooperation in the country.

  "The Industrial Internet is the intersection of the two national strategies of 'network power' and 'manufacturing power'. A 'holistic' supply chain ecosystem developed."

  Zheng Zhongbin, general manager of Industrial Internet Innovation Center (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that at present, Shanghai, which took the lead in making efforts, has The industrial Internet has formed a first-mover advantage, and in the process of "connecting dots into a network", bridge-type innovation institutions are playing a key role in the construction of a new industry ecology.

Photo courtesy of Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center, Discrete Industrial Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions

Conceptual change solves the "question eye" of manufacturing transformation

  Zheng Zhongbin pointed out that at present, China's Internet development has ranked first in the world, and has the most complete industrial categories in the world, but the overall development of the manufacturing industry presents problems such as being too big but not strong, and the lack of core technical capabilities of high-end equipment.

  Therefore, the Industrial Internet will be an important starting point for China's manufacturing industry to become stronger.

  "On the one hand, the development of China's manufacturing enterprises is uneven, and the digital transformation of leading enterprises has achieved certain results, but small and medium-sized enterprises are still in the stage of informatization development, and there is still a gap between comprehensive digitization, networking and intelligence," Zheng Zhongbin said. On the Internet, leading enterprises can empower upstream and downstream enterprises with their knowledge, experience and informatization capabilities, forming traction and cohesion for the entire industrial chain.

  On the other hand, China can give full play to its institutional advantages and rely on the traction of leading enterprises, government policy assistance, and capital support to build the Industrial Internet. In the future, there is a great opportunity to achieve rapid breakthroughs and development in some cutting-edge industries.

  However, Zheng Zhongbin bluntly said that in the past two years, with the increasing downward pressure on the global economy, "survival" has become the primary issue for small and medium-sized enterprises to consider, and the digital transformation has been slow to take effect, making it less willing to invest in high-intensity industrial Internet in the short term; for leading enterprises In terms of data empowerment, the development of the entire industry is still in the exploratory stage, and it will take time to generate value effects.

  Zheng Zhongbin explained that despite the challenges, open data and accumulated to a certain extent will generate greater value. "The data of large enterprises covers their advanced processes and processes, and the data of small and medium-sized enterprises contains a large number of diversified applications. The integration of the two can continuously optimize the industry knowledge map, greatly enhance the innovation capability of the entire industry, and every enterprise will benefit from it, and even drive development across industries, and China's manufacturing industry can be 'stronger' from this."

  In this regard, Shanghai has made a pioneering exploration.

For example, China's commercial large aircraft manufacturing, benchmarking the international first-class industrial intelligence development ideas, encapsulates its accumulated manufacturing data and mechanisms into models, and shares them with the industry chain, thereby driving the development of more than 3,000 upstream and downstream suppliers in the industry; After Sila settled in Shanghai, it drove more than 30 industrial chain enterprises to gather in Lingang. Under the empowerment of its digital-driven manufacturing concept, the overall development and intelligence level of the domestic new energy vehicle industry has been pushed to a new height.

  "One of the characteristics of the manufacturing industry is that the barriers to vertical industries are high, so the Industrial Internet is mainly built on the openness of internal data in various industries; the other is that intelligent manufacturing is flexible. For example, in the event of an outbreak, highly intelligent automobile companies can use data and The technology has quickly switched to ventilator production and formed production capacity, which has become an emergency guarantee," Zheng Zhongbin said, which is also the significance of the construction of the Industrial Internet.

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Shanghai should lead industrial digital transformation to achieve "qualitative change"

  How to open up industry data, build an ecosystem, and "weave" the "point" enterprises in the industrial chain and supply chain into a network?

Zheng Zhongbin believes that, first of all, reasonable "escort" mechanisms such as data confirmation, data privacy protection and data value assessment need to be established urgently.

  He pointed out that in this regard, the establishment of the Shanghai Data Exchange is of great value.

This international and market-oriented data trading platform aggregates various market entities such as data providers, processors, evaluators, and users, changing the previous situation of lack of professional data processing institutions and difficulty in pricing data in peer-to-peer transactions. The compliant form lays the foundation for the mass flow of data elements.

  In addition, "bridge-type institutions such as the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center have assumed the role of 'bonds' and built communication and cooperation mechanisms for different subjects from various aspects, which is very important in the innovation ecology of industrial interconnection." Zheng Zhongbin pointed out.

  "For example, in the operation and development of the Shanghai Data Exchange, backed by authoritative research institutions, the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center has a clearer understanding of the rules and conditions of international data transactions, as well as the relevant policies of the country and Shanghai, which can provide information for the Shanghai Data Exchange. Multi-party connection and auxiliary correction; as a third-party organization, Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center can undertake data auditing, right confirmation and asset evaluation functions in the process of data transactions; at the same time, as the organizer and participant of many alliances and industry associations, it can also The introduction of ecological resources into the trading platform facilitates the aggregation and flow of data, and enhances the influence of Shanghai Data Exchange." Zheng Zhongbin said.

  In addition, Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center also undertakes the construction of new infrastructure in some industries, promotes the creation of vertical industry solutions, takes application demonstration as the industry's clear development path, participates in the establishment of industry associations and other organizational ecological constructions, and links enterprises and governments to build network data security At the same time, it is also cultivating compound talents with cross-border innovative thinking for the industry.

  "The role of the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center is to set up links between large and medium-sized enterprises, between government, industry, academia, research and investment, and between different industries, etc., to open up 'breakpoints', to find the optimal path, and to create an ecological platform for interconnection and mutual trust." Zheng Zhongbin said.

  He said that Shanghai has strong strength and solid foundation in the fields of integrated circuits, biomedicine, automobiles, aviation, aerospace, ships, and nuclear power, which is why, "In 2015, the country launched the industrial Internet strategy, and the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology is planning to Under the research and top-level design, Shanghai was selected first for the strategic implementation, and the Shanghai Industrial Innovation Center, a new bridge institution jointly built by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and Shanghai, came into being, aiming to open up the industrial ecology with a market-oriented operation mechanism.”

  In Zheng Zhongbin's view, at present, Shanghai should build benchmarking industries in key areas, empower the methodology of the Industrial Internet, reflect the results, and form an intuitive effect.

  In addition, the industrial linkage of the Yangtze River Delta will play a key role in the further formation of the Industrial Internet.

"Shanghai has gathered a large number of leading enterprises and science and technology enterprises, and the downstream of the industrial chain is mostly concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The formation of the Industrial Internet requires the coordination of the industrial chain from R&D, manufacturing to operation and maintenance. In the next step, Shanghai should lead the formation of cross-province Action mechanism to promote the linkage of the industrial chain," Zheng Zhongbin said, "From single-point breakthrough to comprehensive breakthrough, from quantitative change to qualitative change, is the top priority of Shanghai's industrial Internet development in the future." (End)