New Coronavirus Pneumonia (COVID-19) Pushes The Internet

The new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic that has swept the world has brought the world economy to the test. Xu Xiaolan, president of the China Industrial Internet Research Institute, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 12th that the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic has led to chaos and tension in the global supply chain and a significant reduction in international trade. However, big crises often give birth to great opportunities. While the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic poses challenges, it will accelerate the development of China's industrial Internet.

New coronavirus pneumonia epidemic breeds new “scenario” opportunities

Looking back at the 2003 SARS crisis, the crisis gave birth to e-commerce, online payment and logistics. Governance measures adapted to the crisis have pushed the “accelerator” for China ’s Internet, and e-commerce and electronic payment have gained development opportunities. These industries have also become a new infrastructure and a strong engine of China's economic growth in the future.

According to Xu Xiaolan, the short-term impact of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic on the economy is significant, but it is based on China's relatively sound infrastructure, huge consumer market, and information technology including big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Driven upgrades. In the post-epidemic era, "scenario-style" changes characterized by "online" and "industrial interconnection", through the full connection of all factors, the entire industry chain, and the entire value chain, will inevitably accelerate the process of digital transformation and strengthen China. Economic resilience.

Xu Xiaolan believes that under the epidemic, 5G, cloud computing, big data, etc. will form a joint force, and the "online +" scenario will fully erupt. The penetration of digitization into modern society is essentially realized through two paths, namely the construction of new scenarios and the transformation of existing scenarios.

In terms of life, the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic forced the people to concentrate on online business experience. The prominent ones include online medical care, online education, and online office. In terms of production, the Industrial Internet integrates new technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. The first generation of information technology has demonstrated advantages in scenarios such as supply and demand docking and capacity increase; in governance, government-led digital governance based on big data and AI and online services have been further applied.

Xu Xiaolan believes that the next step of industrial interconnection will be to promote the reconstruction of human-machine relations, and the industrial digital transformation will be fully upgraded. The physical space barrier brought by the epidemic situation drives enterprises to use information technology to organize and coordinate the enterprise's epidemic prevention and control and resume work. Information technology effectively connects digital space with physical space, and shortens the distance between people and people, people and machines, machines and machines.

At the same time, the Industrial Internet will also move more offline businesses to online to achieve precise services. Through digital transformation of enterprises, it will dig deeper into the value of industrial data resources, build a production system with data resources as its core, and promote manufacturing. Enterprise production model upgrade.

Industrial Internet will become the "preferred item" during the epidemic

"If SARS in 2003 stimulated the development of consumer interconnection, after the new crown pneumonia in 2020, it will bring the rise of industrial interconnection." Xu Xiaolan said that the starting point of the digital transformation brought by this epidemic may be the consumer scene, but with the With the continuous deepening of transformation, with the help of data, algorithms, products, and technology, it promotes seamless connection between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, and a high degree of matching between supply and demand.

In the process of digital transformation, China must pay special attention to infrastructure and basic elements. From the perspective of Xu Xiaolan, as a public service provider, in order to quickly improve service efficiency, it is bound to accelerate the digital transformation of infrastructure and the improvement of public services. Digital transformation, and the information infrastructure represented by 5G just provides a material carrier and technical guarantee for the Industrial Internet.

Xu Xiaolan believes that the application and promotion of the Industrial Internet in various fields should be accelerated at present. Through the digital transformation of enterprises, the Industrial Internet digs deep into the value of industrial data resources, builds a production system with data resources as its core, and promotes the upgrading of SME production models.

In the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, the Industrial Internet has been continuously applied to many scenarios such as manufacturing, material allocation, medical treatment, and epidemic prevention and control. It also reflects the important role of the Industrial Internet in promoting the modernization of national governance systems and capabilities Xu Xiaolan said.