It is already the beginning of 2026, and ten years have passed since Made in China 2025 was proposed.
Made in China 2025 is an action plan issued in May 2015 for the first ten years of China’s implementation of the strategy of becoming a manufacturing power.
It contains a large number of ideas and blueprints for innovation-driven manufacturing.
China has placed high hopes on 2025. Important completion time nodes such as China's manufacturing, the reform of state-owned enterprises and central enterprises, and the 14th Five-Year Plan are all set in 2025.
Of course, there is a gap between reality and the blueprint. This is normal.
The plan we personally made at the beginning of the year, when we look back at it at the end of the year, it would be great if we could complete even one-tenth of it.
Although China has caught up in many aspects, it still has a long way to go before it can achieve true next-generation industrial intelligence.
For example, using the deep integration of informatization and industrialization to lead and drive the development of the entire manufacturing industry, purely from this goal, the current industry cannot be said to be deeply integrated.
The application of informatization in the manufacturing industry is only in some areas, not the entire manufacturing industry.
The most fundamental reason is that manufacturing profits are slim, especially low-end manufacturing. Meager profits mean that you have no extra resources to invest in informatization and intelligence.
Therefore, the final official announcement of Made in China 2025 was only analyzed in terms of GDP and industrial output value.
For example, how much has the proportion of mid-range industrial output value increased, how much has the output value of smart industry increased, and what goals have been achieved in the realization of industrial intelligence.
Then it put forward higher goals for the future Made in China 2035.
This smart steel production base jointly developed by Baosteel, Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology is hailed as the beginning of Made in China 2035.
From the local government to Yanjing, everyone has high hopes.
"Okay, I'm looking forward to good news from Kechuang Biotechnology. It's really difficult to ask you to relocate the headquarters in a short period of time.
Kechuang Biotech can start by setting up a R&D center in Shenhai to see and feel Shenhai’s business environment.
I hope Zheng Li can visit Shenhai more often, maybe he will fall in love with Shenhai’s customs and customs. "
Zheng Li still firmly controls the controlling stake of Kechuang Biotechnology.
When the founder of a company is still there, even if the other party does not have a controlling stake, it is almost impossible for others to take away the actual control of the company from him.
The larger the company, the more so.
When the founder of Disney was still alive in the last century, even though he did not have a controlling stake in Disney, he was the actual controller of Disney until his death.
After Walt Disney's death, Disney's other shareholders quickly took power away from the Disney family.
Li Miaomiao smiled and said: "Definitely, Shenhai owns the largest number of enterprises in China.
It must be because of the good business environment that so many small and medium-sized enterprises have gathered in Shenhai.
I believe that the business environment and money-making effects created by the Shenhai Municipal Government for enterprises are definitely the best in China.
If I have the chance, I will definitely advise Mr. Zheng to come to Shenhai for more business trips.
But you also know that Zheng Li's identity is relatively sensitive now. No matter where he travels or where he goes, he must register with the Bureau of Abnormalities. "
Zheng Li is the only mage in China who is outside the national system.
He has a relatively superficial cooperation with the Chinese Bureau of Anomalies.
But this does not prevent the Bureau of Abnormalities from making some demands on Zheng Li.
"I was rude."
After the leaders of Shen Hai finished chatting with Li Miaomiao, they chatted for a few words with the executives of Baosteel and Huawei respectively, and then left the venue.
He cut the ribbon for the smart steel production base in Baosteel's Baoshan plant and made a speech, and then chatted one by one after coming down, which was already an unscheduled operation.
After the leader left, the scene became much more casual.
Information technology has a wide range of applications in manufacturing.
Among them, the steel industry is a very good application scenario.
Everyone can hear the old concept of the Internet in the media. Technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain can all shine in the steel industry, which has a history of hundreds of years.
The domestic steel industry can be traced back to the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works in 1890.
These technologies have a wide range of implementation scenarios in the steel field.
Take blockchain, which sounds unrelated to the steel industry. In fact, blockchain technology has been applied in the steel field for a long time.
For example, Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. has built its own warehouse data center using the underlying technology of blockchain to ensure that the quantity of steel after it is put into the warehouse cannot be tampered with.
The most basic technology of the blockchain is digital encryption to prevent tampering, and the steel produced in the steel industry can be certified through the blockchain during the transportation process to ensure that the digital goods will not be tampered with.
How many goods are produced will determine how many goods are shipped out of the warehouse.
In addition to the warehouse data center, Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. is also used in bill depository, so I won’t go into details here.
As early as the beginning of 2022, the three departments of China jointly issued an article called "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Steel Industry."
The opinions clearly pointed out that the application of 5g, artificial intelligence and other technologies in the steel industry should be promoted.
Baosteel's smart steel factory directly integrates artificial intelligence into transportation, cold rolling meter inspection, ironmaking, etc., which can be realized through artificial intelligence.
In high-risk environments that require manual operation, skilled workers are trained to remotely control the factory's robot operations through industrial VR.
The entire factory has become unmanned.
At the same time, the total number of workers in all operations is less than one-tenth of traditional steel production.
By the way, it is Pangang that was mentioned earlier. As early as 2019, Ali’s Ali Cloud Industrial Brain was launched in Pangang.
At that time, in the ironmaking process, artificial intelligence was used to reduce blowing loss and splashing, reduce the tfe content in the slag by 1%, and reduce the oxygen activity index by 10ppm, significantly reducing the loss of steel materials.
This time Baosteel and Huawei teamed up to build a smart factory, which is just the culmination of Huawei’s smart industry achievements in the steel field during this period.
All the latest achievements of Huawei’s previous cooperation with Liuzhou Iron and Steel and New Steel have been applied to Baosteel’s smart production base this time.
Baosteel's smart production base is also equivalent to a model project for Huawei. If the effect is good and it can be promoted on a large scale nationwide, then Huawei will find a new profit growth point.
For China, it has also found another solution to the problem that young people are unwilling to enter factories.
Because since it can be implemented in the steel industry, we also see broad prospects for the implementation of artificial intelligence in more manufacturing industries.
Only one-tenth of the previous workers are needed, and welfare benefits can be appropriately improved for workers to achieve the return of manufacturing employment.
In fact, it's not just Huawei, Ahli also wants to grab this title.
However, Huawei took the lead in negotiating industrial VR cooperation with Kechuang Biotechnology and moved faster than Ahri.
Ali's smart steel production factory is also in the implementation stage, and their chosen partner is still Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.
After all, we have cooperated with Panzhihua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. for so many years.
“This time Baosteel’s smart factory has been successfully launched, and I would like to thank you two and the strong support of the companies behind it.
The subsequent operations and iterative upgrades of the smart factory still need to rely on you. "
Another very important reason why Huawei chose Baosteel as its cooperation partner was that Huawei had enough technical personnel in Shenhai.
Huawei's branch in Shenhai has the largest number of personnel after the Songshan Lake headquarters.
Li Miaomiao sighed: "Huawei's technical strength is still very strong.
I think it took more than a year for Dami and Goose Factory to join forces to develop the VR operating system.
This time, it seems that the industrial VR operating system developed by Huawei has not been used for even half a year. "
The person in charge of Huawei is very modest: “The two have different positioning and requirements, and the difficulty of development is also different.
Mr. Li, since you are not a technical person, I will tell the truth in front of you two.
Huawei's industrial VR operating system only needs to ensure communication stability and short operation latency, and it will be good to achieve these two points.
The futureverse has more things to consider.
The VR operating system is like iOS, which needs to consider communication, entertainment, etc., while the industrial VR operating system is like a walkie-talkie, which only needs to consider communication.
It’s not that our technical strength is much ahead of Goose Factory and Rice. "
Huawei didn't want to set the tone too high, so as not to give Baosteel too high expectations.
If you set too high expectations, you will be embarrassed if you fail to follow up.
What needs to be done at this time is to behave in a low-key manner and do things in a high-key manner.
Li Miaomiao: "So that's it, that's pretty awesome.
This time I visited Baosteel’s smart factory. My biggest feeling is that technology has developed so fast in recent years.
The last time I went to the Yangtze River Delta Logistics Center for research, I found that all current logistics truck drivers are artificial intelligence. "
As the general manager of Kechuang Biotechnology, Li Miaomiao often needs to go around for research.
Sometimes I can’t help myself, so I go to the logistics park with a group of big guys when I go with Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province to conduct private enterprise exchanges.
An executive from Huawei nodded and said: “In recent years, we have just gradually implemented the accumulated experience in the field of artificial intelligence.
The first area where autonomous driving will be implemented is freight transportation, because traditional truck drivers work up to twelve hours a day.
Truck drivers cannot drive after two o'clock in the evening.
Therefore, companies with high efficiency requirements will adopt the method of two truck drivers taking turns to achieve round-the-clock operation.
But the labor cost is also high. The labor cost of a truck driver is at least 15,000 per month.
But now, through artificial intelligence, it can operate 24 hours a day without the need for humans to drive it.
Huawei is also engaged in autonomous driving. At present, we are mainly cooperating with the Postal Service and China Communications Logistics to develop autonomous driving.
According to the data we have obtained, through driverless driving, the postal service’s logistics costs have been reduced by about 50%.
However, autonomous driving still needs some time to enter urban scenes.
After all, highway and city road conditions are completely different things. "
In the past, the cost of logistics was labor, but now a large part of the labor cost has been converted into royalties paid to artificial intelligence companies.
And of course there's the expense of truck modifications, requiring the installation of additional sensors, cameras and truck communications equipment.
At this time, the importance of 5g is reflected.
Compared with 4G, 5G has the advantages of low latency, high reliability, and low power consumption, which are essential for driverless driving.
“I remember that we previously invited a computer expert who specializes in autonomous driving to come and give a lecture.
He said at the time that autonomous driving could not be implemented. The biggest problem was the division of responsibilities. It was difficult to define whether it was the car company, the algorithm provider, or the driver. "
Li Miaomiao mentioned that Kechuang Biotech will have fixed internal training and some open classes, inviting top experts in the corresponding fields.
“Yes, driverless trucks won’t have this problem.
Because there are cameras after the accident, how can ordinary individuals fight against the legal department of the company?
Pull out the camera and see who is responsible.
There have been some accidents involving self-driving trucks in the past two years, but there have been few cases of actual compensation from companies.
Most companies only provide meager compensation out of humanitarianism. "
"Companies still need to consider social responsibility most of the time. When a safety accident occurs at Baosteel, we generally compensate the workers who have the accident according to the highest standards."
The words of Baosteel executives are due to their stance. Baosteel is a state-controlled enterprise, and the compensation is not private compensation, but state compensation. Naturally, they will not be such a bad person.
Most domestic logistics companies are private enterprises, and private enterprises determine that their internal assessment must be purely based on maximizing corporate interests.
"This is the truth. We at Huawei have always practiced social responsibility through various methods."
Li Miaomiao heard that the conversation between the two had completely gone astray, and she suddenly felt tired and didn't want to speak.
While Li Miaomiao remained silent, she thought for a moment that Kechuang Biotechnology did not require employees to work overtime, so it was already more socially responsible than Huawei.
After all, developed countries have begun to gradually implement a four-day work system.
After Li Miaomiao saw the entire factory, his biggest feeling was that the development of science and technology can solve many problems.
She also had a practical experience of operating an industrial VR robot, which gave her a feeling of playing with a mecha.
It's just that the robot has a wrench in its hand instead of a lightsaber.
After using industrial VR, Li Miaomiao had an idea.
Can they hold a robot fighting competition where real people can improve the VR operation of the robots?
The robots are developed by each company, and then they compete once a week in an MMA format.
There is one tournament per week, the tour starts, the winner gets points, and then the one with the highest points will compete for the overall championship throughout the year.
As for the model of the robot, it is developed by the company itself.
It is equivalent to a stage that reflects the company's technological strength. If it operates well, it can even attract the attention of the world.
Li Miaomiao thinks this is a very good idea, and he can discuss it with the executives after returning home.
But what she didn't foresee was that no matter what kind of idea it was, as long as it came from her mouth, other executives would only think about how to implement the idea.
Without thinking about whether this idea is feasible.
What's more important is that Kechuang Biotechnology is not engaged in manufacturing at all. They engage in robot fighting competitions to set up a stage for others.
You might even get beaten up if you compete by yourself.
"This visit to Baosteel was very rewarding. Baosteel is indeed the most advanced steel company in China."
