China's industrial internet achieves full coverage of all key categories

China's industrial internet achieves full coverage of all key categories By Li Jiaying chinadaily.com.cn Updated: Mar 10, 2025 A robotic arm operates on the production line at an intelligent workshop of a chemical fiber textile enterprise in Fuzhou, Fujian province on May 31, 2023. Deployed across 49 sectors of economic sectors, China's industrial internet has now achieved full coverage of all major industrial categories, said a national political adviser on Friday. After more than eight years of development, the nation's industrial internet has evolved into a comprehensive service platform that supports enterprises throughout the entire life cycle of design, production, and management, with its core industry value reaching 1.53 trillion yuan, said Xu Xiaolan, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former vice-minister of industry and information technology, at a passage interview during the ongoing two sessions. Looking ahead, the integration of artificial general intelligence with the industrial internet is expected to generate even greater synergies, Xu said, noting that as general AI models become widely applied in industrial enterprises, a hybrid framework combining general AI models with industry-specific models is expected to emerge, and the convergence is set to further accelerate the digitalization, networking, and intelligence of manufacturing.