China to build 30 ‘fully connected’ 5G factories by 2023

Beijing: China aims to build 30 “fully connected” 5G factories in 10 key industries by 2023, as the country has fast-tracked industrial Internet development through integration with 5G technologies.

Three to five industrial Internet platforms with international influence will become operational and a big data center for industrial Internet will be established by 2023, said an action plan on industrial Internet development that was unveiled by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

The action plan pointed out that the next three years (2021-2023) will be the period of the rapid growth of China’s industrial Internet.