At the 2026 Industrial Internet Conference held on June 30, the Implementation Opinions on Promoting the High Quality Development of Industrial Internet (hereinafter referred to as the Implementation Opinions) jointly studied and issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other eight departments was officially released. The Implementation Opinions put forward that by 2030, industrial Internet technology, standards and product supply will continue to improve, enterprise strength and cross-border cooperation will significantly improve, and the added value of core industries will exceed 2.5 trillion yuan; By 2035, the world's leading industrial Internet infrastructure system and the international advanced technology industry system will be built, and integrated applications will achieve wide and deep coverage of key industries in the national economy.

Ao Li, vice president of the China Academy of Information and Communication Research, said that by 2025, the added value of China's industrial Internet core industry has reached 1.67 trillion yuan, and its applications have covered all 41 industrial categories. The newly released Implementation Opinions further anchor long-term goals. In the next decade, driven by the AI wave, the innovative development of industrial Internet is evolving from "connection base" to "intelligent drive".

At present, artificial intelligence, 5G/5G-A, computing network and other technologies are widely used in various economic and social fields. The digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry is accelerating, and the development of industrial Internet ushers in new opportunities. At the same time, AI industrial applications also put forward new requirements for industrial Internet network interconnection, data aggregation, resource allocation and other capabilities.

To this end, the Implementation Opinions have systematically deployed 18 specific tasks around five aspects: infrastructure, technological innovation, integrated applications, security guarantees, and industrial ecology. It proposes to achieve large-scale deployment of new infrastructure by 2030, build 50000 industrial 5G private networks, and create about 5 comprehensive platforms with international influence; Integrating applications to achieve full coverage of 207 industrial categories, cultivating a batch of graded and distinctive 5G factories, and achieving a safety classification and grading popularization rate of 80% for key industries and industrial enterprises above designated size.

In addition, the Implementation Opinions focuses on highlighting the "epochal" characteristics, grasping the key variable of artificial intelligence, and accelerating the integration and empowerment of industrial Internet and artificial intelligence. Specifically, it is proposed to deepen the integration and application of AI and industrial Internet, including "accelerating the promotion of industrial agents, enhancing the intelligent perception and decision-making execution capability of industrial systems, and improving the intelligence level of the whole process of design, pilot test, production, service, and operation".

Ao Li said that, in combination with the relevant deployment of the Implementation Opinions, the future industrial Internet and artificial intelligence will bring three levels of profound restructuring to the manufacturing industry: first, the infrastructure will achieve a systematic intelligent leap; second, various elements driven by intelligence will accelerate to emerge; third, the application value will extend from intelligent factories to intelligent economies. Among them, the industrial Internet platform will be upgraded to an "intelligent hub" in the industrial field after stacking AI tools, providing core support for industrial knowledge precipitation, industrial model training and the stable operation of various industrial agents; The value-added services derived from intelligent capabilities will promote the transformation of enterprises from "selling equipment" to "selling capabilities", and give birth to new forms of intelligent economy such as "one person companies".

In the next decade, the biggest technological variable will be artificial intelligence. ”Yu Xiaohui, president of the China Academy of Information and Communication Research, believes that the shallow intelligence in the past is moving towards "comprehensive and deep intelligence". At the same time, the huge scene and data accumulation of China's industrial Internet is expected to "feed back the technological breakthrough of AI itself" and take the lead in promoting the "emergence of intelligence" of AI in the physical world.

From the perspective of industry practice, the deep integration of industrial Internet and artificial intelligence is drawing a new picture of manufacturing development.

The reporter learned in the interview that through the collaboration of large and small models, Hebei Iron and Steel Group has achieved the unity of decision-making reasoning and optimized execution, improving the production efficiency of converter by 8.8% and shortening the research and development cycle of high-end automotive plates from 6 months to 3 months; Caos industrial Internet platform covers 20 industries such as chemical industry and automobile, connects more than 900000 enterprises, and builds an ecological model of mass customization; In addition, industrial intelligent agents have evolved from conversational assistants to active executors, and Sinopec's "Fenghuo" intelligent agents can independently complete calculations by invoking billions of empirical rules.

For the industrial Internet platform, this also means new development opportunities. Chen Lucheng, the chairman of Kaos IOT Technology Co., Ltd., said that as the industry entered a new stage of AI deep integration, whether it could achieve capability upgrading with AI centered intelligent technology, create value for the manufacturing industry, and become the key for the industrial Internet platform to go through the cycle and achieve sustainable development.

Wu Hequan, an academician of the CAE Member, believes that the stage of intelligent industrial Internet launched in 2026 is not a simple function superposition of AI and industrial control system, but a systematic architecture reform with the deep integration of OT (operation technology), IT (information technology) and AI. The future development of industries needs to maintain the core bottom line of industrial control reliability and real-time performance, balance intelligent innovation and production safety, continuously break through key technical bottlenecks in communication, operating systems, and computing power scheduling, improve standards and safety systems, rely on intelligent agent technology to activate new quality productivity, and support the high-end and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry.