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In recent years, "Industry 4.0", which focuses on intelligent manufacturing, has not only taken root in Germany, but also become a topic of great interest in China. Based on the Internet of Things, cloud computing and other technologies, intelligent manufacturing, which combines mass production and personalization, is considered the future direction of industrial production.

　　The industry believes that keeping up with this development trend and achieving intelligent upgrading is a must for China's manufacturing transformation from big to strong. In this process, China has a good industrial base and market advantages, and Germany has more room for cooperation.

　　Germany has been actively promoting the development of "Industry 4.0" in recent years, with the aim of seizing the lead in the new round of technological revolution, in order to deal with the dual challenges of the return of manufacturing in other developed countries such as the United States and the rapid catch-up of emerging economies such as China in the traditional manufacturing sector.

　　China proposed the implementation of "Made in China 2025" in 2015, in which the integration of the Internet and traditional industrial industries, intelligent manufacturing as the main direction of China's manufacturing from big to strong, and Germany's "Industry 4.0" has some similarities.

　　The German Federation of Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Deputy Director Hartmut Rauen said, intelligent manufacturing can improve the efficiency of resource use, reduce material and power consumption in the production process, as the world's most populous and has a broad manufacturing base, China needs to develop this strategy.

　　The industry believes that Chinese manufacturing has a good foundation in terms of industrial development and market volume, which helps to achieve intelligent upgrading. First, China's manufacturing industry has built a complete, independent and complete industrial system. In the field of electronic communications, China has also formed a more complete industrial clusters, Chinese enterprises have been from the traditional equipment providers, to system solution providers, with strong competitiveness in the global electronic information industry.

　　Secondly, China's huge domestic market provides a huge user base for enterprises' intelligent production, which is an advantage for enterprises to improve their production technology according to users' needs, and is conducive to adapting to various new business models that accompany intelligent production, as well as attracting external resources and finding cooperation opportunities.

　　In addition, although there is still a large gap between China's manufacturing level and that of developed countries, it has a latecomer advantage in intelligent upgrading. President of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering Kong Haning said that in terms of market volume and the possibility of leapfrogging development, China has an advantage that Germany cannot match.

　　Hubert Linhard, chairman of the German Economic Asia-Pacific Committee, said that Germany and China are both developing smart manufacturing and are competitors, but there are also many possibilities and opportunities for cooperation between the two sides.

　　Wolfgang Dost, head of the "Industry 4.0" department of the German Information Technology and Electronic Communications Industry Association, said that the development of "Industry 4.0" cannot be successful by Germany alone, but needs to find partners to build a global industrial chain, of which China is an important China is one of the important links.

　　Currently, China and Germany are discussing standardization issues in the field of "Industry 4.0" under the framework of the Sino-German Standardization Cooperation Committee. Chinese leading information and communication companies, represented by Huawei, are actively involved in the development of solutions for intelligent production in Europe.

　　Many German companies have been operating in China for many years and have established close ties with Chinese partners, said Raun, deputy director of the German Federation of Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers. In the process of developing "Industry 4.0", German-Chinese cooperation is essential