Technicians from China Mobile check a 5G base station in Tongling, Anhui province. [Photo by Guo Shining/for China Daily]
China's centrally administered State-owned enterprises have made substantial progress in both industrial digitization and digital industrialization, boosting their roles in ramping up the country's digital economy development, experts said.
The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council recently emphasized the need to deeply implement the "AI+" special action among central SOEs. It urged enterprises to accelerate their digital and intelligent transformation based on their specific conditions, aiming to build a batch of emerging pillar industries.
Li Zhen, SASAC vice-chairman, said the commission will launch a new round of special transformative actions to this end.
"We will guide SOEs in the tiered cultivation of smart factories, strengthen independent innovation in digital technologies and deepen the integration of the digital economy with the real economy," Li said, adding that these efforts will drive the upgrade of traditional industries and accelerate the development of new quality productive forces.
