Plans to Invest 895 Million Yuan in AI Smart Equipment Industrial Base: Analysis of Intelligent Manufacturing Industry Development
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Plans to Invest 895 Million Yuan in AI Smart Equipment Industrial Base
On December 8, GRG Banking announced plans to invest 895 million yuan (company-owned or self-raised funds) in the Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City Industrial Park (hereinafter referred to as "Sino-Singapore Knowledge City") to construct the second phase of the new-generation AI smart equipment industrial base project (hereinafter referred to as "Phase II Project"). The company headquarters will relocate to the aforementioned Phase II industrial base, which, together with the first phase of the new-generation AI smart equipment industrial base project (hereinafter referred to as "Phase I Project") already invested in and constructed by the company in Sino-Singapore Knowledge City, will jointly form the company's new-generation AI smart equipment industrial base, establishing GRG Banking's new headquarters.
Currently, the global economy is in a downward trend, and countries are increasingly prioritizing the development of the manufacturing sector, accelerating technological innovation to promote the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing. As a result, intelligent and green manufacturing has become the mainstream direction of manufacturing development, and intelligent manufacturing will also become the focal point of competition among nations worldwide.
Globally, the demand for smart living and intelligent production is driving the prosperity of the smart hardware market. Technological breakthroughs and integrated innovation are fostering new development opportunities. Smart hardware, represented by smart wearables, smart homes, smart vehicles, healthcare, and intelligent unmanned systems, is being infused with intelligence through the introduction of chip-plus-operating-system architectures. These products are closely integrated with the internet and cloud computing, collaboratively developing to provide users with various services such as exercise statistics, smart homes, intelligent transportation, health management, and telemedicine.
The influence of "Internet + Smart Hardware" will rapidly penetrate and spread across various fields, including industry, healthcare, transportation, and agriculture.
The 2023 World VR Industry Conference will be held in Nanchang from October 19 to 20. The conference has developed numerous innovative application scenarios, including a metaverse venue, an upgraded version 3.0 of the virtual host Jiang Xiaowei, service digital humans, VR-guided tours (industry showcase and rural revitalization), and VR postcard posters. Among them, the opening ceremony will feature a virtual-real interconnected space opening special effect themed "Brilliant Stars, Roaming the Ancient and Modern Gan River." Attendees can "travel" into the artwork through on-site large screens and VR glasses, experiencing the spectacle of soaring through the air and overlooking the bustling Gan River with hundreds of boats competing for thousands of years. The concurrent expo will cover approximately 30,000 square meters, with nearly 200 companies, including the three major telecom operators and Huawei, iFlytek, BOE, Hisense, H3C, and Xiaomi, confirmed to participate.
In terms of industrial collaboration, the event will include international exchange meetings, VR Top 50 enterprise roadshows and VR/AR Annual Innovation Awards, the 2023 China (Nanchang) Electronic Information Industry Development Conference and Mobile Intelligent Terminal Industry Supply-Demand Matching Meeting, and the awarding ceremony for the fifth batch of outstanding VR industry innovation and entrepreneurship talent teams in Jiangxi Province.
The transformation and upgrading of manufacturing in the Yangtze River Delta should focus on technological innovation, especially industrial innovation, addressing national priorities in key technologies and industrial chain integration for advanced manufacturing. This is also an endogenous requirement for the Yangtze River Delta's innovation-driven development, the construction of a modern industrial system, and the pursuit of high-quality economic growth.
From a long-term development perspective, the impact of the pandemic on the intelligent equipment manufacturing industry in China's vast market is relatively minor. Currently, China's economy is performing well, with rising household income levels, providing a favorable consumer environment for the intelligent equipment manufacturing industry. Industrial policies have also created a conducive business environment and offered solid policy guarantees for investors.
The pan-intelligent visual industry chain, which empowers high-quality development in applications such as industrial robots, smart connected vehicles, digital security, and aerospace, has attracted total investments exceeding 50 billion yuan. A number of innovative projects are accelerating their transformation and implementation. Hangzhou Aochuang Photonics Technology Co., Ltd., with its production base located in the Zhuji Intelligent Visual Industrial Park and its R&D center in Hangzhou's Zijingang "Zhuji Island," commenced operations in April this year. Within just six months, the company mastered high-energy, high-power femtosecond pulse amplification technology, successfully launched a series of femtosecond laser products, and became the first in China to achieve bulk shipments in the industrial sector.
Even more encouragingly, this year, the intelligent visual industry chain was selected as a provincial "Chain Leader System" demonstration pilot, and the intelligent visual industry platform was included in the national major project list, with an expected annual output value exceeding 15 billion yuan.
Analysis of the Intelligent Manufacturing Industry's Development
As a manufacturing and internet powerhouse, China has a solid foundation for developing intelligent manufacturing. The country's manufacturing scale has ranked first in the world for 13 consecutive years, boasting the most comprehensive industrial categories and systems globally, which provides vast space for the development of intelligent manufacturing. Meanwhile, China's internet industry has grown rapidly, producing a group of leading internet enterprises with advanced technological capabilities in big data, artificial intelligence, and other areas, particularly excelling in business models and application services. This provides a strong technological foundation for the development of intelligent manufacturing.
Currently, China's intelligent manufacturing sector is witnessing new scenarios, solutions, and models such as virtual validation and shared manufacturing. New manufacturing models have moved from conceptual frameworks to practical implementation, and international cooperation in intelligent manufacturing continues to deepen.
The most prominent issue in China's intelligent manufacturing development is the uneven level of progress. First, there is an imbalance in the development levels of related technologies and industries. In recent years, the industrial internet platforms essential for intelligent manufacturing have developed rapidly, but areas such as industrial software, key basic components, and critical processes still rely on foreign technologies. For example, machine tools, industrial design software, underlying operating systems, and embedded chips still lag behind some developed countries. There is an urgent need to address these shortcomings, strengthen foundational technologies, and advance industrial base modernization and supply chain resilience to enhance stability and competitiveness.
The intelligent manufacturing industry chain encompasses smart equipment (industrial robots, CNC machine tools, service robots, and other automation equipment), terminal communication and devices (machine vision, sensors, RFID, industrial Ethernet), industrial software (ERP/MES/DCS, etc.), 3D printing, and the integration of these components into automated systems and production lines.
Analyzing from the perspective of industrial chain upstream and downstream, the upstream sectors of China's intelligent manufacturing industry mainly consist of basic hardware, perception-level hardware products, intelligent manufacturing equipment, and industrial software. The midstream sectors include intelligent manufacturing equipment suppliers and system integration service providers such as intelligent manufacturing solution providers. The downstream sectors primarily comprise demand-side industries, including transportation equipment, electronics and information technology, biomedicine, and other fields.
"14th Five-Year Plan" Period to Witness Rapid Development of Smart Equipment
According to the "14th Five-Year Plan for Intelligent Manufacturing Development," by 2025, digitalization will be basically universalized among China's large-scale manufacturing enterprises, with key industry leaders initially achieving intelligent transformation. By 2035, digitalization will be fully universalized among large-scale manufacturing enterprises, with leading enterprises basically completing intelligent transformation. The "14th Five-Year Plan" period will see rapid development of smart equipment. With strong national support for intelligent manufacturing, China's intelligent manufacturing industry continues to maintain relatively rapid growth rates.