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Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Solution Conference settles in Taicang

chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: April 18, 2018

The Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Solution Conference (Taicang Forum 2018) is held in Taicang, Jiangsu province on April 13. [Photo/WeChat account: taicangdaily]

The Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Solution Conference (Taicang Forum 2018) was held in Taicang, Jiangsu province on April 13, according to Taicang Daily.

More than 500 participants attended the forum, including representatives from Chinese and German manufacturing enterprises and experts from Chinese universities and institutions.

Themed on "Collaborative Innovation", the forum aims to promote cooperation between China and Germany in intelligent manufacturing and explore Chinese progress in advanced manufacturing.

Wu Jinhai from Alibaba Cloud Computing Co, a world leading cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology company, said that the industrial internet will surely become the core competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry in the future.

He suggested that China should highlight the industrial internet's application in retail, finance, new energy and other fields to establish a multi-industry industrial platform.

Chu Junhao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that Germany's Industry 4.0 and China's Made in China 2025 offer the two countries a great cooperation opportunity.

Home to 280 German companies with a total investment of over $3 billion and annual industrial output of $6 billion, Taicang enjoys sound cooperation with Germany.

He suggested that the city should be more active in building cooperation with German enterprises in robot manufacturing, comprehensive health and intelligent manufacturing upgrading.

Shen Mi, Party secretary of Taicang, confirmed that Taicang will seize the valuable opportunity to work with German enterprises in hopes of promoting high quality development of the city's industries.

During the forum, it was agreed that the Sino-German Intelligent Manufacturing Solution Conference will permanently settle in Taicang where seminars concerning intelligent manufacturing are expected to be organized at regular intervals.

Industry 4.0 originates from a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government. It promotes computerization of the manufacturing industry and Made in China 2025, an initiative to comprehensively upgrade Chinese industry, was directly inspired by it.

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