German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the opening ceremony of the Shenzhen innovation hub of the German Industry and Commerce Ltd in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province, on May 25, 2018. Photo: Xinhua

The Huawei Longgang Industrial Internet Innovation Center, Shenzhen's first industrial internet innovation center was officially launched on Sunday, acting as a communication channel between the government, Huawei and other industrial enterprises.

Experts said that the center will inject further momentum into the digital transformation and innovative development of domestic industrial enterprises, with the investment from the Chinese tech giant. 

In July 2020, the Longgang District government in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province entered into a contract with Huawei to jointly build an innovation center to boost local digital transformation.

After one-year of operations, the innovation center has empowered 258 industrial enterprises to engage in digital transformation and developed 24 local ecological partners in Longgang. Moreover, the center has provided digital transformation solutions for a number of industrial enterprises, creating more than 10 demonstration firms. 

Looking forward, Huawei will continue to focus on industrial clusters including electronics, equipment and injection molding in Longgang District by leveraging cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, in order to realize collaborative management of industrial chains, and help promote high-quality economic development.

According to a senior official from the Longgang government, over the next five years, the district plans to invest 300 to 400 million yuan to drive the transformation and upgrading of the overall manufacturing industry cluster as well as enhancing local industrial internet capabilities.

Global Times