Zhang Ying, Chief Engineer of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, pointed in her speech that the new generation of information technology, represented by the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, has accelerated the deep integration with the real economy. New models, formats and industries have flourished, injecting new vitality and stimulating new impetus into the development of high-quality economy. She also stressed that in the process of pushing forward the strategic collaboration and jointly promoting the new industrial revolution, Shanghai has made full use of the advantages of Sino-German cooperation in talent training, construction of demonstration zones and market cooperation. Shanghai will continue to uphold an open and cooperative attitude, support global high-quality enterprises to settle down and integrate into the new round of innovation and development in Shanghai, help to build national industrial Internet innovation demonstration city, and lead the development of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters in the Yangtze River Delta.
The theme of the forum is "Share new opportunities of industrial interconnection and create new ecology of intelligent manufacturing". Representatives of leading enterprises from China and Germany, including SAP, Haier and Tianji Automobile, as well as experts and scholars from universities and research institutes like Peking University, Tsinghua University and Tongji University, were invited to make speeches on working together to grasp the development opportunities of global intelligent manufacturing, promoting the innovation and development of industrial Internet, building an industrial Internet platform, releasing the value of industrial big data, and exploring the industrial interconnection between China and Germany.
It is reported that under the background of global manufacturing digital transformation, China and Germany have issued industrial Internet related strategies to speed up industrial Internet technology innovation and application promotion, and promote the development of industrial digital transformation to a new level. The forum will vigorously promote bilateral cooperation in the field of industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing to a higher level, and further deepen Sino-German industrial Internet cooperation. What's more, it will give full play to the advantages of China and Germany as a large manufacturing country and jointly promote the digital transformation of global manufacturing industry.
