Huang Qifan: The new infrastructure will boost the digitalization of traditional industries

Huang Qifan, deputy director of the China International Economic Exchange Center, said that accelerating the deployment of a batch of innovative infrastructure represented by scientific installations and experimental platforms, and at the same time supplemented by the deepening of technological innovation system reform, will help to create basic research, regional innovation, and openness Collaborative innovation system with deep integration of innovation and cutting-edge innovation. Huang Qifan pointed out that the infrastructure involved in the new infrastructure includes 5G, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, cloud computing, etc. The new infrastructure will promote the digitization of traditional industries and form a disruptive industrial Internet. Building the industrial Internet is a process of reshaping the industrial value chain, and every link in the industrial chain needs to be digitally upgraded. According to relevant calculations, in the five areas of aviation, electricity, health care, railways, and oil and gas, if digital support is introduced to expand 10% of the industrial value space through digitalization, more than 200 billion US dollars of value can be created each year. The 5G era will form the era of the industrial Internet, which is a huge blue ocean.