INTELLIGENT INTEGRATION

While many Chinese enterprises were forced to suspend business during the novel coronavirus epidemic over the past few months, ASPOP Costumes Group Inc. in Shandong Province, east China, resumed production within just three days in February. Thanks to the equipment, materials and production plans provided by COSMOPlat, an industrial Internet platform jointly developed by the local government and home appliance giant Haier Group, ASPOP quickly shifted from making clothes to producing medical supplies, meeting urgent demands.

The industrial Internet refers to the Internet-based infrastructure that connects people, devices and things based on the integration of information technology and the manufacturing industry. As China pushes to resume work and production amid the waning epidemic and boost new growth drivers, the development of the industrial Internet has entered the fast lane.