Original Title: Work Plan for Accelerating the Implementation of "Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration" and Launching a New Round of the "Ten-Hundred-Thousand" Project
　　To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech during his inspection tour of Jiangsu, fully carry out the “Four Leading Roles” and the “Four New Initiatives," to concentrate efforts on competing in the digital-physical integration sector, to focus on the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, to accelerate the application and development of artificial intelligence, to strengthen the integration and empowerment of digital technologies, to enhance the level of network infrastructure construction, to promote the in-depth and practical implementation of "Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Connectivity," to improve the "Ten Chains Leading Hundred Enterprises, Hundred Enterprises Cultivating Thousand Scenarios" ecosystem, and to actively contribute Changzhou’s strength to the construction of a province strong in digital-physical integration, this implementation plan is formulated.
　　I. Main Objectives
　　By 2025, our city’s efforts in “Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Connectivity” will rank among the nation’s leading initiatives, and we will strive to become a national pilot city for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises:
　　“Ten Industrial Chains Breakthrough”: Focusing on ten advanced manufacturing clusters and key industrial chains, we will integrate critical links such as design, production, warehousing, logistics, and services to achieve higher levels of collaboration across the industrial chain. We will establish 10 highly competitive industrial chain collaboration platforms.
　　“100 Leading Enterprises”: Promote the deep integration of digital technology with manufacturing, enhancing the levels of intelligence, networking, and digitization in work sections, production lines, workshops, and factories. Establish 100 provincial-level smart workshops, smart factories (5G factories), and benchmark enterprises for intelligent transformation and digital transition that serve as industry models, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in national “Digital Leadership” enterprises.
　　“1,000 Application Scenarios”: Continuously expand the scope of intelligent and digital applications among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), comprehensively enhance the application levels of “AI+,” “Robotics+,” and “Industrial Software+,” and develop 1,000 replicable and easily scalable application scenarios and case studies, striving to achieve breakthroughs in national industrial internet “cross-industry, cross-domain” platforms.
　　II. Main Tasks
　　(1) Promoting Collaborative Supply Chain Strengthening
　　Focusing on key industrial chains, we will strengthen analysis of the current status of intelligent, digital, and networked applications, identify renovation needs, and formulate “one chain, one strategy” improvement plans. Relying on established industrial chain collaboration platforms—such as those for new energy vehicles (core components), construction machinery, and new power equipment—we will promote the development of digital capabilities among “chain-leading” enterprises. Centered on industrial chains, we will enhance collaboration across all upstream and downstream segments by applying six major models: platform-based design, digital management, intelligent manufacturing, personalized customization, networked collaboration, and service extension.Support leading enterprises and platform-based enterprises in jointly establishing industry chain supply-demand matching platforms to promote the sharing of resources and factors among enterprises within the chain and deepen supporting cooperation. By 2025, industry chain collaboration platforms will have connected a cumulative total of 5,000 enterprises and driven and empowered the digital transformation of 3,000 local enterprises.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology; People’s Governments of all subordinate cities and districts; Administration Committee of Changzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. All subsequent policy measures must be implemented by the People’s Governments of all subordinate cities and districts and the Administration Committee of Changzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, and will not be listed separately.)
　　(2) Strengthening Demonstration and Leadership
　　Establish a tiered cultivation system of “reserving a batch, nurturing a batch, certifying a batch, and supporting a batch” to expand the scale of benchmark demonstration projects. Encourage key clusters and leading enterprises in industrial chains to benchmark against world-class standards and establish “Lighthouse Factories” and “Digital Pioneers.” Building upon the foundation of provincial-level demonstration smart factories, cultivate provincial-level benchmark enterprises for intelligent transformation and digital upgrading—characterized by strong technical capabilities, optimal business models, innovative management concepts, and high quality and efficiency—by focusing on all production factors, the entire business process, and the full industrial ecosystem.In accordance with the construction standards for provincial-level smart factories, smart workshops, and typical smart manufacturing scenarios, establish a cultivation database for smart factories and workshops to encourage key enterprises in industrial chains to create provincial-level smart manufacturing demonstration factories and workshops. Focusing on key industries such as steel, building materials, and chemicals, promote 5G upgrades in typical processes such as quality inspection, logistics, warehousing, and patrol inspections, and advance the construction of 5G factories.We will cultivate enterprises excelling in digital transformation, guiding them to migrate business systems to the cloud in areas such as R&D and design, production and manufacturing, and sales and after-sales services, while encouraging the creation of provincial-level star-rated cloud-based enterprises. We will encourage enterprises recognized as provincial-level demonstration smart workshops to participate in the formulation of enterprise, industry, and local standards for smart workshops.By 2025, establish 100 provincial-level or higher smart factories (5G factories) and smart workshops, cultivate 5 provincial-level benchmark enterprises for intelligent transformation and digital transition, and create 500 provincial-level star-rated cloud-based enterprises. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Market Regulation Bureau)
　　(3) Focus on Scenario Development
　　Centering on the full product lifecycle, the entire production process, and all links in the supply chain, encourage large and medium-sized enterprises to develop application scenarios in areas such as digital R&D and design, intelligent production scheduling, and supply chain collaboration and optimization. Guide small and micro-enterprises to develop application scenarios in areas such as connecting production equipment to networks, implementing CNC control for key processes, and applying industrial robots.Promote the use of new technologies and products—such as 5G, robotics, and big data—to empower various industries, and build a series of digital application scenarios across sectors including agriculture and rural development, transportation and logistics, education and healthcare, and culture and tourism. By 2025, create 1,000 application scenarios in smart manufacturing, industrial internet, and 5G+ technologies. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Education Bureau, Municipal Transportation Bureau, Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism, Municipal Health Commission)
　　(IV) Strengthen Diagnosis and Evaluation
　　Comprehensively summarize the experience gained from free diagnostic services, organize service providers to continue conducting diagnostics for enterprises above a certain scale, and lay the groundwork for high-quality evaluations.Increase efforts to publicize and implement documents such as the *Guide to Digital Transformation for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises*, promote the use of online assessment tools for digital transformation and smart manufacturing, and encourage enterprises to conduct self-assessments of their smart manufacturing capability maturity, digitalization levels, and digital transformation maturity. By 2025, the number of enterprises rated at Level 2 or above in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s digitalization level assessment will reach 1,000. (Responsible Unit: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)
　　(5) Improving Product Supply
　　Focus on the pain points and challenges faced by SMEs during their transformation, and encourage service providers to offer “small, fast, lightweight, and precise” hardware and software products and solutions to lower the barriers to digital adoption for SMEs. Leveraging the Manufacturing Public Service Platform, aggregate a range of “small, fast, lightweight, and precise” products that are well-received by SMEs. Promote the R&D and adoption of low-code products, and encourage service providers to assist SMEs in independently creating, deploying, using, and adjusting digital applications, thereby enhancing their secondary development capabilities and responsiveness to market demands.Encourage industrial enterprises to collaborate with service providers to jointly develop industrial software—such as Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems—tailored to specific industry segments, thereby improving the adaptability of industrial software to enterprise digital transformation. Encourage the first-time purchase and use of major equipment (first units/sets), first-version industrial software, foundational software, and security software. By 2025, develop and promote 100 “small, fast, lightweight, and precise” products.(Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau)
　　(6) Categorized Transformation and Upgrading
　　For enterprises with a solid data foundation, encourage the application of industrial data analysis to build industrial data models and knowledge bases that empower the industry. For enterprises with highly automated production equipment but low connectivity rates, focus on equipment interconnection and data interoperability to support the retrofitting of “dumb equipment” for data collection, thereby improving digital equipment management, production efficiency, and quality data analysis capabilities.For enterprises with low levels of equipment automation and significant renovation challenges, support will be provided through loan interest subsidies, grants for effective investments, and financial leasing to facilitate the purchase or leasing of intelligent and digital production equipment, thereby achieving equipment upgrades, process modernization, and management improvements. By 2025, 1,500 intelligent and digital transformation projects will be implemented, and 2,000 new units of intelligent equipment, such as industrial robots, will be added. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Big Data Management Center)
　　(7) Optimizing Platform Services
　　Guide the specialized development of industrial internet platforms, accelerate the adoption of new models such as “super virtual factories,” and expand functions including centralized raw material procurement, industrial design, shared production capacity, industrial chain finance, and transaction matching. Encourage local industrial chain leaders, key service providers, and industrial parks to collaborate in establishing digital transformation promotion centers that integrate scenario promotion, ecosystem aggregation, talent development, and in-depth services.Encourage various industrial parks to establish smart manufacturing demonstration zones, support the construction of regional public service platforms, and actively create smart manufacturing pilot zones. Accelerate the construction of the Longcheng Smart Manufacturing Laboratory to empower local manufacturers of smart equipment such as CNC machine tools, robots, and automation equipment. Conduct selection of outstanding service providers in areas such as smart equipment, network and system integration, and data analysis to cultivate a group of smart transformation and digital transition service agencies with a deep understanding of industrial mechanisms and high levels of specialization.By 2025, four new provincial-level industrial internet platforms will be established; 10 promotion centers with in-depth service capabilities will be created; business training for 10,000 participants will be supported; 15 new municipal-level smart manufacturing demonstration zones will be established; and 100 service providers will be incorporated into the provincial smart transformation and digital transition service provider resource pool. (Responsible Units: Municipal Science, Education, and Urban Management Committee; Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology; Municipal Development and Reform Commission; Municipal Science and Technology Bureau)
　　(8) Improving Infrastructure
　　Deeply advance the Industrial Internet Enterprise-to-Enterprise Connectivity Project and build high-quality “dual-gigabit” networks. Support enterprises in building high-quality internal networks to provide more stable, efficient, and secure network support for R&D, production, operations, and services. Focusing on supply chain management, full lifecycle management, and product traceability, accelerate the promotion and application of Industrial Internet identifier resolution secondary nodes.Advance the construction of a classified and graded industrial internet security management system; cultivate enterprises with star-rated industrial information security protection; and promote security applications such as identity authentication and perimeter protection among key enterprises. Support enterprises in building industrial edge data centers to create typical scenarios for cloud-edge-end computing synergy; support industrial parks in establishing public computing centers to provide inclusive computing resources and industrial data training sets.Support leading enterprises in the industry to collaborate with big data and artificial intelligence companies to develop products such as industrial mechanism models and industry-specific large models, thereby deepening the empowerment of computing power applications. By 2025, industrial internet identifier resolution services will achieve basic full coverage of key industrial chains; a cumulative total of 25,000 5G base stations will be built; the connectivity rate of digital production equipment will exceed 65%; and general-purpose computing power will grow by over 10%. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, Municipal Big Data Management Center, Telecommunications Operators)
　　III. Support Measures
　　(1) Strengthen Organizational Guarantees. Fully leverage the organizational and coordinating role of the Leading Group for Building a Strong Manufacturing City in the “Ten-Hundred-Thousand” initiative to resolve major issues arising during implementation and actively ensure the timely completion of objectives and tasks. The people’s governments of all subordinate cities (districts) and the Administrative Committee of the Changzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone shall promptly formulate detailed implementation plans, clarify specific work measures and supporting policies, and rigorously ensure the effective implementation of all tasks.The relevant policies outlined in the “Implementation Plan for Promoting ‘Ten Industrial Chain Breakthroughs, Hundred Leading Enterprises, and Thousand Application Scenarios’ in the City’s Intelligent Upgrading and Digital Transformation” shall remain in effect until December 2025. (Responsible Unit: Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)
　　(2) Strengthen Financial Services. Guide financial institutions to increase credit allocation to enterprises implementing “Smart Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration” initiatives; encourage banking institutions to reduce fees and offer preferential terms; and promote loan products such as “borrow as needed, repay as needed” and rollover loans without principal repayment. Deepen the implementation of the financial “Double Hundred Action” and “Doubling Plan” to facilitate high-quality enterprises’ access to multi-level capital markets. Guide various industrial funds to increase investment in enterprises that have achieved significant results in “Smart Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration.”Actively promote supply chain finance services, encourage leading enterprises to increase financing support for SMEs within their supply chains, and establish comprehensive supply chain financing channels. (Responsible Units: Municipal Bureau of Local Financial Supervision and Administration, Municipal Finance Bureau)
　　(3) Strengthen Talent Support. Relying on major talent initiatives such as the “Longcheng Talents” Program and the Project for the Introduction and Cultivation of Leading Innovative Talents (Teams), we will attract high-end digital talent. We will implement the “Dual-Position Mutual Appointment Plan” for high-level talent citywide, supporting mutual part-time appointments between enterprise smart manufacturing and digital talent and relevant professionals from universities and research institutions to enhance flexible talent mobility and promote the rational allocation of intellectual resources within the municipal area.Encourage local institutions of higher education to cultivate professionals in “intelligent transformation, digital transition, and network connectivity,” support the development of digital industry-education integration consortia, advance the establishment of modern industrial colleges and industry-professor teams in the digital sector, and promote social training and skills competitions for digital competencies. Utilize platforms such as the “Industry and Information Technology Lecture Series” to conduct a series of training programs for enterprise digital talent. (Responsible Units: Municipal Party Committee Talent Office, Municipal Science, Education, and Urban Management Committee, Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Municipal Education Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau)
　　(4) Strengthen Publicity and Promotion. Strengthen the distillation, summarization, and promotion of exemplary practices in “Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration,” further fostering an atmosphere conducive to enterprises’ “Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration.” Encourage various social organizations to actively participate in “Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration” efforts by conducting activities such as technology R&D, supply-demand matching, industry promotion, and training exchanges. (Responsible Units: Municipal Party Committee Publicity Department, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)
　　(5) Strengthen Evaluation and Assessment. Further improve the systems for monthly monitoring and analysis, quarterly operational evaluation, and annual comprehensive assessment of “Intelligent Transformation, Digital Transition, and Network Integration,” and objectively evaluate the progress and effectiveness of these efforts across the city. Strengthen professional guidance and target-based assessment of all relevant work in subordinate cities (districts), and encourage them to benchmark against advanced regions within the province to carry out “comparison, learning, catching up, and surpassing” initiatives. (Responsible Units: Municipal Government Office, Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology)