On the industrial internet identification operation monitoring screen in the Liangjiang digital economy industrial park, the national top-level nodes of identification and resolution based in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Chongqing and Guangzhou are constantly flickering.
The node in Chongqing connects the municipality with Sichuan, Guizhou and other parts of western China. By the end of March, the node had reported 7.8 billion yuan ($1.16 billion) in registration volume, with its growth rate ranking first in China.
Li Qiqi, director of the national top-level nodes of identification and resolution operation center of CAICT, highlighted Liangjiang's complete infrastructure providing a solid foundation for the development of industrial internet.
Chongqing is a manufacturing powerhouse in China that boasts 39 of the nation's 41 industrial subdivisions. Liangjiang New Area has many prominent industrial sectors, including electronics, automobiles and equipment manufacturing, offering a variety of application scenarios for the industrial internet.
The identification and resolution system raises testing efficiency by 56 percent and lowers labor costs by 38 percent for enterprises, experts have said.
In Chongqing's hospitals, every inpatient is given a smart wrist-band capable of patient identification, medical supply tracing, nursing work quantization, and prescription recording, thereby improving medical services.
The identification and resolution system has been applied in communications, power supply, healthcare, education, and finance, according to a business insider in Liangjiang.
Empowered by the industrial internet, the new area has implemented 260 intelligentization programs, established 60 digitalized workshops and 21 smart factories, and is home to more than 4,000 enterprises registered on cloud platforms.
John Edwards, the UK trade commissioner for China, praised Chongqing over its rise as a burgeoning center in intelligent manufacturing.