-- The role of new tech has become a highlighted topic at the 2020 Global Industrial Internet Conference (GIIC).

-- When the global economy was disrupted by the pandemic, the industrial Internet, integrating both online and offline resources, was explored to sustain productivity and keep supply chains afloat.

Photo taken on Oct. 18, 2020 shows the opening ceremony of the 2020 Global Industrial Internet Conference in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province. (Xinhua/Long Lei)

Industrial revolutions have been known to propel economic growth in the past decades, and the industrial Internet, facilitated by new technologies such as 5G and AI, is expected to bring metabolical changes not only to industrial sectors but also to people's lives.

The role of new tech has become a highlighted topic among hundreds of Chinese and foreign experts, scholars, and representatives of leading enterprises in the field of the industrial Internet at the 2020 Global Industrial Internet Conference (GIIC), which opened on Sunday in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province.

The conference, with its theme of enabling high-quality economies and fostering new growth drivers, focuses on new applications and modes of the industrial Internet in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic and in helping enterprises resume work and production.

AGE OF INFORMATION

In the age of the industrial Internet, key technologies, such as the intelligent connection of 5G and mobile edge computing, industrial Ethernet technology, real-time digital warehouse construction, and AI-powered intrusion detection systems, are making machines more intelligent and driving change.

When the global economy was disrupted by the pandemic, the industrial Internet, integrating both online and offline resources, was explored to sustain productivity and keep supply chains afloat.

In China, new infrastructure related to the industrial Internet has made remarkable progress over the past years, said Liu Liehong, vice minister of industry and information technology.