According to the 2023-2024 Annual Report on China's Industrial Internet Market Research (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") released by CCID Consulting, a market research organization, in 2023, China's industrial Internet market will reach 984.95 billion yuan, up 13.9% year on year. Among them, the industrial Internet platform has maintained rapid growth, with the market scale reaching 146.76 billion yuan, and the market growth rate reaching 34.7%. Experts said that the industrial Internet platform is releasing huge industrial energy and becoming an important helper for enabling manufacturing enterprises to make high-quality manufacturing and intelligent transformation. The manufacturing industry accelerates the transformation of digital intelligence. As the product of the new generation of information technology and the deep integration of manufacturing industry, the industrial Internet covers the whole process of industrial enterprises' R&D, production, operation, management, sales, service, etc. At present, China's industrial Internet has initially established five systems of network, logo, platform, data and security. Among them, there are more than 340 influential industrial Internet platforms, more than 96 million industrial equipment connections, and more than 13000 "5G+Industrial Internet" projects, covering 41 industrial categories such as machinery, steel, and electronics, effectively helping manufacturing enterprises to achieve quality improvement, cost reduction, and efficiency increase. Song Yingchang, deputy director of the Institute of Informatization and Software Industry of China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute, believes that the industrial Internet platform has entered a rapid development period of scenario leading, integration and breakthrough, and scale application, and is becoming a key carrier to support the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, the popularization and application of industrial Internet platform is conducive to driving the deep integration of new generation information technology such as big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain and the real economy, and effectively accelerating the pace of digital industrialization. On the other hand, the industrial Internet platform is conducive to transforming the development mode of enterprises, accelerating the transformation of production mode and enterprise form, and helping to build a new production service system characterized by software definition, data driven, platform support, service value-added, and intelligent leadership. Zhao Gang, president of CIIC Industrial Research Institute, analyzed that with the in-depth application of the new generation Internet technology in the industrial field, the industrial Internet platform has made important progress in product development, platform construction, business model and other aspects, becoming an important support for the digital transformation of the whole industrial chain in various industries. Industrial Internet platform software products are constantly enriched. Leading manufacturing enterprises, industrial software enterprises, Internet platform enterprises, etc. have entered the industrial Internet platform market and launched platform software products for applications in various industries. Leading enterprises and platform enterprises in the industry actively promote the deployment of industrial Internet platforms for industry wide services, promote the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry, and promote industry wide connectivity and business collaboration. The industrial Internet platform has formed business models such as industrial enterprise cloud and industrial chain collaboration, and constantly expanded the scale of users. CCID Consulting predicts that with the continuous growth of industrial Internet platform solutions and users, as well as the steady progress of "double crossing" platforms and other work, China's industrial Internet market will maintain a steady and positive development trend in the next three years. It is estimated that the scale of China's industrial Internet market will reach 1486.25 billion yuan in 2026. Expanding the flexible supply chain platform of rubber industry for industrial Internet applications is one of the industrial application scenarios built by Inspur Yunzhou with orders as the core. As a leading producer of Internet services, Inspur Yunzhou has always helped upgrade the digital industrial chain of industrial equipment with productive Internet services. Based on the capabilities of the industrial Internet platform, Inspur Yunzhou, taking the supply of raw materials such as natural rubber as the starting point, connected three industrial clusters of Qingdao rubber and new materials, Dongying tire manufacturing, and Jining special vehicle manufacturing, reduced the matching time of raw material supply and demand by 70% of the industry, and reduced the purchase cost of raw materials by 1%. At the same time, through the intelligent transformation of local warehouses in industrial clusters and pre warehouses in Qingdao Port, the overall warehousing costs of rubber and tires have been reduced by 50%, promoting the optimization and upgrading of the rubber industry supply chain. According to statistics, since the launch of the rubber industry resilience supply chain platform, it has attracted more than 100 upstream and downstream enterprises to settle in the industry chain, accumulated 200 million industry transaction data, generated platform revenue of over 1.2 billion yuan, and helped small and medium-sized enterprises raise 100 million yuan in financing. At present, the Inspur Yunzhou Industrial Internet Platform connects millions of sets (sets) of industrial equipment, launches more than 20000 industrial APPs and micro services, supports the construction of 51 industrial Internet platforms, and helps millions of customers to achieve digital transformation. The development of industrial Internet platforms is characterized by strong industry attributes, complex user needs, and high development and implementation costs. In the future, the market expansion of industrial Internet platforms will still face many challenges. Zhao Gang believes that due to the great difference of business in different industries, the industrial Internet platform of one industry can only serve one industry. For example, the industrial Internet platforms of discrete manufacturing and process manufacturing are very different. Even if they are both discrete manufacturing, the industrial Internet platforms of machinery manufacturing and clothing industry are completely different. At the same time, users of the industrial Internet platform include both the main enterprises in the industrial chain and various small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. The platform needs to meet the common and personalized complex needs of enterprises of different types and sizes. The complex user requirements result in higher development or implementation costs. Industrial Internet platforms are usually standardized products. In order to meet personalized needs, or require products to be personalized according to different user needs, or require products to meet personalized needs through secondary development, this will significantly increase the development or implementation costs. " Zhao Gang said. To build a high-quality platform system, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued the Opinions on Innovating the Management of the Information and Communication Industry and Optimizing the Business Environment, which proposed that high-quality development guidelines for the industrial Internet would be issued, a multi-level and systematic industrial Internet platform system would be built, and the modernization level of the industrial chain supply chain would be improved, providing a direction for promoting the development of the industrial Internet in the new era. Song Yingchang believes that to promote the industrial Internet platform to empower the industry, first of all, we need to break through the core technology, promote the key technologies such as 5G, industrial applications, edge intelligence, industrial big data analysis, and industrial application development, and accelerate the open source and commercial use of platform technology achievements around the fields of "platform+5G", "platform+blockchain", "platform+artificial intelligence". To build a high-quality industrial Internet platform system, efforts should be made to optimize the platform system and improve the empowerment level. On the one hand, we need to continuously improve the "comprehensive+characteristic+professional" platform system, promote the accumulation of industry knowledge and experience on the platform, create a batch of scenario based solutions, and promote the optimization of manufacturing resource allocation and upstream and downstream collaboration of the industrial chain. On the other hand, we should improve the level of empowerment, tap the potential of industrial Internet applications by industry, speed up industrial enterprises and industrial equipment on cloud platforms, form a number of replicable and promotable path models, and speed up industrial Internet platforms to enter bases, parks, and industrial clusters. "In addition, we should continue to deepen industry finance cooperation, industry education integration, actively carry out business model exploration and cooperation, promote high-quality and sustainable development of industrial Internet platform, connect scientific and technological innovation, financial services and industrial development ecological chain, and build a good pattern of digital economy development with active innovation and multi linkage." Song Yingchang said. "The construction and operation of the industrial Internet platform can effectively realize the information interconnection between the chain owner enterprises and the upstream and downstream partners and customers of the industrial chain, open up all links such as product design, production, procurement, logistics and warehousing, optimize the allocation of industrial elements such as talents, funds and data, and establish new application scenarios and new manufacturing models such as personalized customization, intelligent production, networked collaboration, service-oriented extension, and end-to-end delivery." Zhao Gang said that building a multi-level and systematic industrial Internet platform system can not only significantly improve the production efficiency and quality of the manufacturing industry, but also help enhance the resilience of the industrial chain supply chain and help the industrial transformation and upgrading. (New Society)