Original Title:Notice from the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Shandong Province, the Department of Science and Technology of Shandong Province, the Department of Finance of Shandong Province, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Shandong Province, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shandong Province, the Shandong Provincial Big Data Bureau, and the Shandong Provincial Communications Administration on Issuing the "Action Plan for Upgrading the Digital Transformation of Shandong’s Manufacturing Sector (2023–2025)"
To thoroughly implement the spirit of the provincial conference on high-quality development of the digital economy, fully carry out the three-year action plan for the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector, and vigorously promote the deep integration of digital technology with the real economy,and to accelerate the development of new industrialization, this plan has been formulated.
I. General Requirements
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and earnestly carrying out General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on advancing new industrialization, this plan takes the integrated development of next-generation information technology and the manufacturing sector as its main enabling force. It focuses on the digital transformation needs of key manufacturing industries and flagship industrial chains, and implements the “Three Initiatives”—optimizing transformation pathways, strengthening infrastructure, and deepening service provision—to accelerate the creation of an integrated framework featuring benchmark enterprises at the local level, industry-leading models online, and exemplary regions across the board. This will lead and drive the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector to achieve the “three improvements” goals of efficiency, speed, and quality, promote the coordinated development of industrial digitization and the digitalization of industries, and provide strong support for building a province with a strong advanced manufacturing sector.By 2025, the province aims to significantly enhance the digital, networked, and intelligent capabilities of its manufacturing sector, widely promote new business models and formats, and substantially strengthen the industry’s overall competitiveness.
——Comprehensive Efficiency Gains Through Integrated Applications. Accelerate the digital transformation of industrial enterprises above a certain scale; establish a basic framework for evaluation, diagnosis, and service systems; achieve full coverage of industrial internet platforms for landmark and key industrial chains; build more than 50 provincial-level “Industrial Brains”; create a batch of benchmark demonstrations aligned with leading standards; raise the index of integration between informatization and industrialization to approximately 125, placing the province at the forefront nationally; and maintain a leading position nationwide in the manufacturing digital transformation index.
——Orderly acceleration of digital infrastructure. Construct and commission more than 250,000 5G base stations, with a target of reaching 270,000; put more than 35 second-level nodes for identifier resolution into operation; complete the “Spark·Chain Network” Jinan super node; facilitate the establishment of an international telecommunications gateway in Qingdao; accelerate the integrated development of computing and networking; and achieve a total computing power exceeding 12 EFLOPS (exaflops).
— The quality of transformation services continues to improve. Guided by the “Industrial Empowerment of Shandong” initiative, we will build “pioneering” industrial internet platform enterprises with core competitiveness and ecosystem leadership, and cultivate more than 40 specialized platforms deeply rooted in specific industries; we will attract and nurture more than 300 digital transformation service providers for small and medium-sized enterprises; the supply capacity and enabling role of industrial software, smart hardware, and artificial intelligence will be further enhanced, with the province’s information technology industry revenue exceeding 2 trillion yuan, growing at an average annual rate of over 10%.
II. Key Tasks
(I) Implement the Special Campaign to Optimize Transformation Pathways
1. Leverage the leading and driving role of key enterprises. Support key enterprises in comprehensively applying digital and network technologies across production stages—including production lines, workshops, and factories—to conduct multi-scenario, multi-level pilot demonstrations, thereby effectively enhancing smart manufacturing capabilities. By 2025, establish 50 national-level smart factories that meet “Lighthouse Factory” standards, over 500 5G factories, and more than 10,000 “Morning Star Factories.”Support leading enterprises in focusing on the digital transformation of all elements, processes, and ecosystems, spearheading innovation in the integrated application of digital technologies, and promoting the optimization and upgrading of processes such as R&D, design, production, and management. This will comprehensively enhance the effectiveness of transformation in terms of cost, quality, efficiency, environmental sustainability, and safety. By 2025, cultivate approximately 10 “Digital Pioneers.”Support state-owned enterprises in accelerating digital transformation, improving operational efficiency, and optimizing business processes. Achieve full coverage of the “one enterprise, one strategy” approach for digital transformation among provincial-level enterprises, incorporate digital transformation into corporate reform performance evaluations, and establish industry-leading models for digital transformation. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission)
Column 1: Digital Transformation Benchmark Demonstration Projects
1. “Digital Pioneer” Enterprises. Support leading and backbone enterprises in building a technological foundation characterized by interconnected equipment, data-driven operations, software-defined systems, and platform-based support. Encourage business innovations such as platform-based design, intelligent manufacturing, networked collaboration, personalized customization, service extension, and digital management to create benchmarks for manufacturing digital transformation that feature strong technical capabilities, optimal business models, innovative management concepts, and high quality and efficiency.
2. Digital Workshops and Smart Factories. Support the construction of digital workshops and smart factories in accordance with the national smart manufacturing standards system to enhance the maturity of smart manufacturing capabilities. Continuously improve production efficiency, comprehensive resource utilization, comprehensive equipment utilization, and labor productivity per employee, while reducing product development cycles, operating costs, defect rates, and comprehensive energy consumption per unit of output.
3. 5G Factories. Support the construction of various types of 5G factories—including production line-level, workshop-level, and factory-level facilities—in accordance with national construction guidelines and based on actual needs. Accelerate the adoption of 5G in industries such as electronics and information technology, equipment manufacturing, raw materials, and consumer goods. Explore typical application scenarios for “5G + Industrial Internet” and promote the large-scale deployment of 5G in production support processes as well as its in-depth expansion into core production processes.
4. Morning Star Factories. In key industries such as high-end equipment, high-end chemicals, new materials, new energy, new pharmaceuticals, next-generation information technology, and modern food processing, promote innovative applications such as data modeling, digital twins, and the industrial metaverse. Guide enterprises to integrate data chains across the entire production and operation process, and establish a group of data-driven “Morning Star Factories” that are technologically leading, integrated and collaborative, and green and low-carbon.
2. Accelerate the “Cloud Adoption, Data Utilization, and Intelligence Empowerment” of SMEs. Implement a special campaign for the digital empowerment of SMEs, establish platforms such as SME Digital Transformation Promotion Centers to high standards, pilot the construction of more than 10 provincial-level Industrial Internet Digital Transformation Promotion Centers, and build a comprehensive digital service system spanning technological innovation, industrial incubation, and application promotion.We will continue the “10,000 Digital Specialists in Enterprises” initiative, using a “consultant + employee” model to advance the digital transformation of more than 100,000 SMEs. We will encourage platform companies, transformation service providers, and telecommunications operators to offer inclusive digital tools such as public cloud infrastructure and low-code software, develop user-friendly and cost-effective digital solutions, and create industry-specific product catalogs to help reduce the costs for SMEs to “adopt cloud and platform services.”Launch pilot programs for the digital transformation of SMEs and distinctive industrial clusters. Each year, select 10 outstanding service providers and 100 benchmark enterprises for digital transformation, and achieve full coverage of the overall digital transformation of 50 distinctive industrial clusters within three years. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
Column 2: The “Five Ones” Work Promotion System for SME Digital Transformation
1. One Promotion Center: Establish a national-level promotion center to high standards. Construct an approximately 4,000-square-meter facility comprising an experience center, training base, and office space. This center will aggregate high-quality research resources, service resources, and innovation elements to provide one-stop digital solutions and comprehensive services—including policy consultation, categorized assessments, supply-demand matching, and resource sharing. The goal is to have the SME Digital Transformation Innovation Experience Center substantially completed and open to the public by early 2024.
2. One Roadmap: Formulate a high-quality digital transformation roadmap. Support Jinan and Qingdao as the nation’s first pilot cities for SME digital transformation, with each city taking the lead in selecting three specific sub-sectors and no fewer than 500 enterprises to carry out digital upgrades. Ensure that all eligible industrial SMEs above the scale threshold in these sub-sectors are fully transformed, and that all willing industrial SMEs below the scale threshold are fully transformed.Priority will be given to pilot initiatives in key industrial chains and national-level distinctive industrial clusters. Within the year, 10 distinctive industrial clusters will be encouraged to take the lead in digital transformation, with the goal of achieving full digital transformation coverage across 5 flagship industrial chains and 50 distinctive industrial clusters by the end of 2025.
3. A market-oriented mechanism, namely, the efficient and sound establishment of market-oriented operational mechanisms. Deepen cooperation with national high-level think tanks, establish an association (or alliance) of SME digital transformation service providers and an expert committee, build a public service platform for SME digital transformation, and establish and operate a market-oriented entity to aggregate a “resource pool” of high-quality service providers and a “demand pool” of high-quality enterprises.
4. A talent pool: Cultivating high-level digital transformation talent. Conduct specialized training on digital transformation for enterprise leaders to specifically address the issues of enterprises “not wanting to change, being afraid to change, or not knowing how to change.” Establish high-quality practical training bases for SME digital transformation talent and provide diverse specialized training for personnel from enterprises, government agencies, and other sectors.
5. A policy package, specifically to optimize the policy supply system with high quality. Continuously improve the management measures for provincial “Innovation Service Vouchers,” make effective use of the special fund for digital economic development, encourage financial institutions to develop specialized loan products for SME digital transformation, and guide more social capital to participate.
3. Promote “chain-based” transformation and upgrading across industries.Building on the national integrated big data center “Shandong Industrial Cloud,” we will focus on competitive industrial chains and clusters such as steel, petrochemicals, machinery, food, textiles, and aluminum. By establishing digital foundations, data warehouses, and capability platforms, we will integrate data resources from government, enterprises, and industries to develop a range of applications in industrial ecosystems, smart manufacturing, and generic technologies. We aim to build more than 50 provincial-level “Industrial Brains” across different sectors and regions,and within three years, consolidate these into the Shandong “Industrial Economy Brain” to accelerate industry digital transformation and elevate industrial development capabilities.The “One Chain, One Policy” initiative will drive the accelerated digital upgrade of 11 flagship industrial chains. It will support “chain-leading” enterprises in building an industrial internet platform ecosystem that is highly collaborative, secure, stable, and under independent control. By leveraging the industrial internet to extend business processes and management systems upstream and downstream, the initiative will drive small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) along the chain to undertake networked transformation and adopt digital applications. By 2025, an industrial internet platform system covering manufacturing sub-sectors will be essentially established, with full coverage achieved for key industrial chains.(Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
Column 3: In-Depth Digital Transformation of Key Industries
Identify the challenges and pain points in the digital transformation of manufacturing sub-sectors and accelerate the penetration of digital technologies. By 2025, the adoption rate of digital management and operations among industrial enterprises above designated size will reach approximately 85%, the adoption rate of digital R&D and design tools will reach approximately 90%, and the adoption rate of industrial internet platforms will reach approximately 45%, thereby forming a set of replicable and easily scalable solutions.
1. Raw Materials Industry.Targeting sub-sectors such as petrochemicals, steel, non-ferrous metals, and building materials, we will focus on pain points such as low equipment maintenance efficiency, difficulties in passing down process knowledge, and significant pressures regarding workplace safety and environmental protection. We will carry out intelligent upgrades and digital transformation in areas such as equipment health management, digitization and software-based conversion of production experience, and safety monitoring. This will enhance data collection and analytical capabilities for critical equipment and processes, enabling digital monitoring, dynamic equipment alerts, and predictive maintenance, while accelerating digital collaboration in supply chains and digital innovation in manufacturing processes.
2. Equipment Manufacturing Industry. In sectors such as automotive, rail transit, energy conservation and environmental protection, and construction machinery, we will accelerate the widespread adoption of intelligent equipment like industrial robots, strengthen data collection and system integration, and establish digital workshops and smart factories characterized by high efficiency, flexibility, agile response, human-machine collaboration, and dynamic scheduling. We will develop new service models such as equipment condition early warning and fault diagnosis, as well as remote product assembly and operation and maintenance, to create a new “product + service” ecosystem.Focusing on sectors such as aerospace equipment, shipbuilding and offshore engineering equipment, and energy equipment, promote digital twins throughout the entire process of complex product design, production, and service, and conduct cloud-based simulation, evaluation, and verification.
3. Consumer Goods Industry. Promote the development of automated, continuous, and flexible production systems in industries such as textiles and apparel, and home appliances. Accelerate the innovative application of digital technologies in typical scenarios such as industrial visualization and defect detection, and actively explore user-centric personalized customization and precision marketing.Support industries such as food and pharmaceuticals in building digital production lines to achieve transparency in production processes and refined workshop management. Accelerate the innovative application of technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) identification and resolution, and digital labeling to optimize supply chains and enable end-to-end traceability, thereby enhancing product quality and safety.
4. Electronic Information Industry. Take the lead in innovatively applying technologies such as 5G, big data, artificial intelligence, and edge computing; implement digital transformation across R&D and design, production management, quality inspection, and supply chain management; and develop new applications and models such as human-machine collaborative assembly and intelligent quality inspection. Strengthen supply chain management based on industrial internet platforms to achieve precise coordination across electronic component procurement, production, inventory, quality, and logistics; optimize supply chain configuration efficiency; and enhance control over upstream and downstream segments of the industrial chain.
4. Strengthen the overall empowerment and upgrading of industrial parks. Focusing on key industrial parks, attract central state-owned enterprises and leading companies in the digital economy sector to collaborate with local governments and key enterprises. Using the supply chain as a starting point, leverage digital technologies to provide services such as centralized procurement and unified sales, shared logistics and warehousing, and supply chain finance. Promote data interoperability and business interconnectivity, cultivate approximately 50 “digital economy headquarters” within three years, and build a group of distinctive parks characterized by “industry, market, platform, and headquarters.”Guide provincial-level and above industrial parks to collaborate with industrial internet platforms and digital transformation service providers to formulate digital transformation action plans tailored to local competitive industries, creating “one model per park.”Launch the “Industrial Internet Integration into Parks” initiative to promote the construction of industrial internet platforms and second-level identifier resolution nodes that support regional industrial digitalization. Assist enterprises in upgrading their internal and external networks and implementing digital transformations. By 2025, cultivate a cumulative total of more than 30 industrial internet parks featuring complete network infrastructure, platforms that play a significant role, and highly efficient enterprise collaboration. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
Column 4: Pathways for Regional Digital Transformation Sharing Platforms
1. Shared Manufacturing Capabilities. Establish shared platforms that aggregate manufacturing resources such as production equipment, specialized tools, and production lines; develop shared manufacturing services enabling multi-factory collaboration; establish shared factories that address the common manufacturing needs of SMEs; and promote equipment-sharing services based on rental-instead-of-purchase and on-demand usage models.
2. Sharing of Innovation Capabilities. Addressing the flexible, diverse, and low-cost innovation needs of enterprises within industrial parks and industrial clusters, establish joint innovation laboratories; develop shared platforms for product design and development that aggregate diverse intellectual resources from society; and expand the sharing of scientific research instruments, equipment, and experimental capabilities.
3. Shared Service Capabilities. Addressing common service needs prevalent among enterprises—such as logistics and warehousing, product testing, equipment maintenance, supply chain management, and data storage and analysis—we will integrate social service resources to explore the development of intensive, intelligent, and personalized shared service capabilities.
4. Shared Management Capabilities. Build and promote smart park management platforms to enhance the digital management level of the park. Achieve comprehensive digital management of investment promotion, project management, enterprise services, safety and environmental protection, and economic monitoring, thereby continuously optimizing the park’s business environment.
(II) Implement the Infrastructure Enhancement Special Campaign
5. Accelerate the Upgrading of Basic Network Infrastructure. Promote balanced infrastructure development between eastern and western regions, advance "dual-gigabit" full coverage, accelerate the upgrade of gigabit fiber-optic network capabilities, achieve 100% coverage of gigabit optical networks in all cities, and increase the number of 10G-PON and higher-speed ports to 1.8 million.Deeply implement the 5G “100 Cities, 10,000 Stations” deep coverage initiative and the “100 Enterprises, 1,000 Cases” large-scale application campaign. Optimize 5G networks in industrial parks and key enterprises, and increase the penetration rate of 5G applications in large industrial enterprises. By 2025, activate more than 250,000 5G base stations, with the goal of reaching 270,000.Optimize the backbone network architecture, accelerate the construction of the “Spark·Chain Network” Jinan supernode, actively leverage the aggregation and radiation effects of the Jinan and Qingdao national Internet backbone interconnection points, expedite the establishment of the Qingdao International Telecommunications Gateway, and enhance international and interprovincial network connectivity.Promote the application of “deterministic networks” and actively participate in research on future network technologies such as 6G (sixth-generation mobile communications), Wi-Fi 7 (seventh-generation wireless networks), and TSN (time-sensitive networking) to provide high-performance, highly reliable, highly flexible, and highly secure network services. (Responsibility: Provincial Communications Administration, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Big Data Bureau)
6. Strengthen the leading role of industrial internet platforms. Implement the Industrial Internet Platform Excellence Cultivation Project and improve the tiered cultivation mechanism of “provincial-level platforms—national-level specialized platforms—national-level cross-industry and cross-domain platforms.” By 2025, cultivate a cumulative total of more than 300 provincial-level key platforms and more than 40 national-level specialized platforms.Implement the “100 Digital Transformation Scenarios” initiative to facilitate precise and efficient matching between industrial internet platform service providers and enterprises with specific needs. Focusing on pain points in industry transformation and the application of common technologies, create approximately 100 typical digital transformation scenarios annually that feature innovative models, significant results, and ease of replication and promotion.Improve the identifier resolution system. Centering on key industries such as electronics and information technology, steel, petrochemicals, food, apparel, and equipment, and following a phased development model of “reserving a batch, building a batch, and operating a batch,” support the construction and operation of secondary nodes for identifier resolution. Prioritize the integrated development of the identifier resolution system with industrial internet platforms and industrial apps to facilitate information connectivity and interaction across enterprises, industries, sectors, and regions. Explore sustainable business models and accelerate the formation of large-scale identifier resolution application service capabilities.By 2025, more than 35 secondary nodes will be launched and operational, with the number of identifier registrations exceeding 150 billion. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Communications Administration)
Column 5 Launch the “Industry Empowerment Shandong” Series of Initiatives
Guided by the “Industrial Empowerment of Shandong” initiative, we will deepen the application of national-level “cross-enterprise, cross-industry” platforms, accelerate the development of specialized platforms with distinctive features, and foster “platform + new technologies,” “platform + new models,” and “platform + typical scenarios” initiatives to explore new models for smart manufacturing and service-oriented manufacturing.
1. Intensify efforts to cultivate multi-tiered platforms. Fully leverage the role of existing “cross-industry, cross-domain” platforms, improve and optimize cooperation mechanisms for resource integration and complementary strengths, further enhance service capabilities, and empower the development of the manufacturing sector on a broader scale, at a deeper level, and to a higher standard. Actively strive to establish national-level “cross-industry, cross-domain” platforms and specialized platforms. Encourage key provincial manufacturing enterprises, information technology companies, and internet firms to build provincial-level industrial internet platforms targeting key industries, sectors, and regions.
2. Enhance the service capabilities of the “Industrial Empowerment Hundred Scenes” initiative.Adhering to a categorized approach driven by demand, we will promote the integration of industrial internet platforms into enterprises, industrial parks, and clusters, and strengthen precise supply-demand matching. Each year, we will select a batch of manufacturing sub-sectors on a rolling basis, identify common needs and bottlenecks in digital transformation, clarify transformation goals, and adopt a “challenge-based” approach. We will support industrial internet platform service providers in forming consortia with manufacturing enterprises to tackle these challenges, thereby developing approximately 100 replicable typical scenario solutions,using a “1+N” model to drive improvements in the overall digitalization level of the industry.
3. Organize and host promotional events. We will organize various digital transformation promotion and industrial internet outreach activities to high standards, guiding cities to conduct the “Industry Empowerment Shandong” series of events—including summits, forums, scenario roadshows, and supply-demand matchmaking sessions. We will leverage the comprehensive demonstration and leadership role of key industrial internet platforms to stimulate enterprises’ motivation for digital transformation. By 2025, we aim to have organized more than 100 “Industry Empowerment Shandong” events across the province, connecting with approximately 10,000 enterprises.
7. Accelerate the construction of an integrated computing power network.Accelerate the construction of new data center clusters, advance the development of data centers that have already secured energy consumption quotas, and expedite the construction of new data centers with individual cabinet power ratings of no less than 6 kW. In accordance with the “2+5+N” integrated computing power network master plan, establish a diversified computing power supply system encompassing next-generation supercomputing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. By 2025, the total computing power capacity will exceed 12 EFLOPS (exaflops), with high-performance computing accounting for 40% of the total.Deploy edge data centers. Plan and deploy edge data centers within key industrial clusters in the provincial capital economic zone, the Jiaodong economic zone, and the Southern Shandong economic zone. Optimize the deployment of supporting infrastructure to build an edge computing supply system. Strengthen coordinated deployment with dual-gigabit networks to achieve joint construction and shared use of edge data centers and telecommunications equipment rooms, thereby enhancing the ability to flexibly respond to business demands requiring ultra-low network latency.Improve computing power and efficiency levels. Guide the development of new data centers toward high computing power, high efficiency, and intelligence. Promote the introduction of domestic heterogeneous computing resources such as NPUs (Neural Network Processors), GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), DPUs (Data Processing Units), and ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits). By 2025, the proportion of domestic computing resources will reach over 90%. (Responsibility: Provincial Big Data Bureau, Provincial Communications Administration)
(3) Implement the Special Campaign to Deepen Service Supply
8. Optimize digital transformation services. Cultivate digital transformation service providers by supporting leading enterprises in industries with abundant digital resources and strong external influence to spin off their IT departments into independent legal entities to provide digital transformation services externally. Focusing on the digital transformation needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we will solicit and rigorously select more than 300 digital transformation service providers nationwide that possess core service capabilities, mature solutions, and successful case studies in relevant industries, and are capable of providing high-quality services on a sustained and stable basis, to offer professional, precise, and efficient digital services to SMEs in our province.Conduct digital transformation standardization efforts on a routine basis. Promote and disseminate standards such as the “Digital Transformation Maturity Model,” dynamically select standardization service providers, improve the standardization service system, and continuously advance the widespread coverage and large-scale application of digital transformation standardization. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
9. Strengthen IT Support. Enhance industrial software by developing a range of industrial apps and industry solutions tailored to specific sectors, scenarios, or critical manufacturing processes, addressing the needs of key sectors such as CNC machine tools, integrated circuits, smart home appliances, high-end equipment, new energy vehicles, and intelligent connected vehicles. Cultivate more than 20 provincial-level first-edition high-end software products annually.Accelerate the R&D and industrialization of hardware such as smart sensors, PLCs (programmable logic controllers), and core cloud computing infrastructure. Promote the overall improvement of smart equipment capabilities. Focusing on core equipment such as high-end CNC machine tools, industrial robots, additive manufacturing, smart sensing and control, smart inspection and assembly, and smart logistics and warehousing, cultivate approximately 30 major smart manufacturing first-of-their-kind (set) technical equipment and key components annually.Strengthen data infrastructure support. In accordance with the “1+3+N+X” master plan, improve the system of national, provincial, and edge-level industrial Internet big data centers. By 2025, cultivate a cumulative total of approximately 50 provincial-level industry centers and 300 edge-level centers. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Big Data Bureau)
Column 6: Enhancing the Supply of Digital Transformation Capabilities
1. Enhance the supply of industrial software. Focusing on the need for self-reliance and controllability in areas such as smart manufacturing and the industrial internet, promote in-depth cooperation between software enterprises and industrial enterprises to accelerate the research and development of industrial software in the following categories: design (CAX, PDM, EDA, etc.), production control (MES, PLC, etc.), and business management (ERP, PLM, etc.), thereby helping to establish new R&D and production methods as well as service and management models.Accelerate the development of embedded software. Conduct R&D on embedded operating systems and related application software for fields such as CNC machine tools, smart home appliances, rail transit, and automotive electronics to enhance the core technological capabilities and added value of finished products.
2. Expand the supply of smart manufacturing equipment. Prioritize the development of smart terminal industries such as new energy vehicles, high-end construction machinery, and high-end CNC machine tools and robots. Support equipment manufacturers, system solution providers, and industry users in jointly developing intelligent integrated equipment (production lines). Improve the new product promotion mechanism, comprehensively utilize support policies for first-of-a-kind equipment, and promote the integration of innovative products into the supply chains of key industrial sectors to create a range of high-quality equipment that leads the industry.
3. Strengthen the supply capacity of data resources. Accelerate the construction of the Shandong Sub-center (Platform) of the National Industrial Internet Big Data Center and deepen the development of the three provincial-level regional centers in Zaozhuang, Yantai, and Dezhou. Speed up the construction of nodes within the data center system, enhance the service levels of provincial-level industry centers, and launch initiatives to cultivate edge-level centers. Target key industrial parks and leading enterprises along industrial chains to select a group of provincial-level regional/industry secondary nodes, thereby gradually improving the digital infrastructure foundation of Shandong’s Industrial Cloud system.
4. Promote the innovative application of artificial intelligence. Strengthen the development of common key technologies such as high-performance computing, big data, and blockchain. Focus on achieving breakthroughs in key core technologies for machine vision and pattern recognition, autonomous unmanned systems, and IoT basic components. Accelerate the development of industries such as smart sensing and high-end smart chips. Vigorously develop AI products and accelerate the deployment and application of general-purpose and vertical large models in the industrial sector to drive AI-enabled new industrialization.
10. Ensure the Aggregation of Resources and Factors. Leverage the guiding role of science and technology programs, with a primary focus on resolving major “bottleneck” technological issues in the digital transformation of advanced manufacturing, and deploy more than 20 major scientific and technological research tasks annually. Accelerate the aggregation of innovation factors and establish additional provincial key laboratories, technology innovation centers, new R&D institutions, and other platforms in the field of manufacturing digital transformation.Leverage national and provincial talent programs to target key areas of manufacturing digital transformation and attract and cultivate a cohort of high-level talent in critical core fields. Focusing on areas such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, smart manufacturing, and the Industrial Internet, enhance the digital proficiency of manufacturing personnel through standardized training and socialized evaluations, and cultivate and expand a high-caliber team of digital technology engineers.Continue to conduct specialized training on the Industrial Internet to improve the digital literacy of government agencies and entrepreneurs. Strengthen the foundation of information security in the manufacturing sector. Fully utilize the provincial Industrial Internet security situational awareness platform to carry out monitoring and early warning, situation assessment, information sharing, and emergency response. Enhance the classification and tiered protection of industrial data, and strengthen network and data security safeguards. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Provincial Communications Administration)
III. Support Measures
(1) Strengthen Organizational Implementation. Within the framework of the Provincial Leading Group for Building a Strong Manufacturing Province, coordinate and promote the digital transformation of the province’s manufacturing sector. Leverage the intellectual support of high-level research institutes and industry associations to provide guidance for the digital transformation of manufacturing. Relevant departments shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, refine policy measures, strengthen resource integration and collaborative efforts, and form a cohesive working force.Municipalities should, based on local industrial characteristics, accelerate the promotion of digital transformation diagnosis and evaluation, pool resources from all parties, and advance the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector with higher standards and more concrete measures. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
(2) Optimize Policy Support. Refine fiscal incentive policies for 5G, industrial internet, and other areas to support the creation of national-level benchmarks and demonstration projects in the digital transformation sector, such as “cross-industry, cross-domain” platforms and digital leading enterprises. Addressing the digital transformation needs of specific sub-sectors, adopt a “challenge-based” approach to encourage service providers—such as “cross-industry, cross-domain” platforms—to collaborate with manufacturing enterprises on pilot projects, develop a range of scenario-based solutions, and provide post-project awards and subsidies to the best performers.Encourage eligible cities to introduce targeted fiscal support policies. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, Provincial Department of Finance)
(3) Foster a Strong Atmosphere. Make every effort to build the “Industry Empowerment Shandong” brand, regularly identify and promote a group of exemplary cases in manufacturing digital transformation, and strengthen the summarization and dissemination of best practices. Organize the World Industrial Internet Industry Conference and the SME Digital-Physical Integration Development Summit to high standards, and carry out a series of activities including supply-demand matching, scenario launches, promotional campaigns, and exchange visits to accelerate the digital transformation process. (Responsibility: Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology)
