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Remaking “Made in China”: Beijing’s Industrial Internet Ambitions

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The Chinese government is placing large bureaucratic and financial bets on upgrading and digitizing its already dominant manufacturing base. It is attempting to use advances in computer vision, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and 5G to supercharge the efficiency and increase the productivity of factories across the country. Such efforts have coalesced around one key term: the…

The Chinese government is placing large bureaucratic and financial bets on upgrading and digitizing its already dominant manufacturing base. It is attempting to use advances in computer vision, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and 5G to supercharge the efficiency and increase the productivity of factories across the country. Such efforts have coalesced around one key term: the “industrial internet” (工业互联网). To that end, Beijing has churned out a series of important policy documents over the last three years aimed at fostering the industrial internet. Collectively, these documents attempt to…

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