Keeping Pace with the World: 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference Opens in Shenyang
Shenyang, China – September 12, 2026 – On September 9, the 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference opened in Shenyang. Industry experts and representatives of leading enterprises from around the world gathered to witness the iterative development of China’s industrial internet technology, ecosystem building, and the new changes in Liaoning’s “intelligent transformation and digital upgrading” through experience sharing, keynote speeches, and achievement releases.
September 9, the opening ceremony site of the 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference.
Pursuing Frontier Technology
During a face-to-face exchange on the theme of industrial machine tools, a representative of an enterprise in the province admitted that Liaoning, as the cradle of China’s industrial machine tools, is now encountering certain problems. Zhou Ji, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, after learning in detail about the enterprise’s operating status, product capabilities, and R&D strength, said that the Shenyang-Dalian industrial machine tool cluster has made outstanding contributions to breaking through “bottleneck” technologies and is where the nation’s confidence lies. Enterprises should work hard on distinctive features and scale, especially enhancing their ability to connect with the market, proactively linking with new industries such as AI, computing power, and new energy vehicles, and developing machine tool products they need.
At the Forum on Innovative Development of Energy and Energy Storage Industry Clusters, Liu Changzai, general manager of Fushun High-tech Construction and Development Group Co., Ltd., said that traditional businesses have shortcomings in transformation directions such as green development, computing power, and intelligence. At present, they are integrating resources and capital and planning ecological energy and digital transformation, with talent, mechanisms, and foundations all requiring systematic design. The conference built a platform for learning frontier technologies, from which he benefited greatly.
Wang Zihui, head of a Shenyang-based painting equipment manufacturing enterprise, admitted that in the past she felt artificial intelligence was far from traditional industries. After developing algorithms in-house based on open-source models, the image generation effect and efficiency far exceeded the past, market feedback was positive, and attitudes across the company were highly unified. The conference continuously brings frontier concepts and technical solutions, and is forming a collective “enlightenment” for Liaoning’s manufacturing enterprises.
Unblocking Cooperation Channels
“Scenarios” is a high-frequency term at previous conferences. Scenario advantages are Liaoning’s confidence in deeply cultivating the industrial internet and an important vehicle for advancing from manufacturing scale to intelligent manufacturing. Each supply-demand matching event is a concentrated showcase of achieved results, with a batch of digital transformation and “intelligent transformation and digital upgrading” projects signed, covering key areas such as industrial internet platform construction, industrial chain collaborative upgrading, intelligent manufacturing demonstrations, and green and low-carbon transformation, precisely matching Liaoning’s needs for transforming traditional industries and cultivating emerging industries.
During the 2026 conference, China Mobile Liaoning Company signed strategic agreements with Langkun Smart Technology Co., Ltd., Kingdee Software (China) Co., Ltd., Shenyang Pharmaceutical Industry Development Promotion Association, and Hefei Guqi Data Technology Co., Ltd., to jointly create replicable and implementable benchmark projects for “intelligent transformation and digital upgrading.”
The conference also helps Liaoning break through regional barriers. The “Liaoning-Jiangsu Dialogue” themed on manufacturing digital transformation matchmaking and exchange promotes experience sharing, resource sharing, and project co-building between Liaoning and leading digital industry provinces. Foreign-related activities such as the China-Laos-Cambodia Science and Technology Innovation and Industrial Digitalization Cooperation Dialogue were held, allowing Liaoning’s digital technology and industrial solutions to go abroad and achieving a two-way breakthrough from “bringing in” to “going out,” enhancing the national influence and international visibility of Liaoning’s industrial internet industry.
Building a Chain-based Ecosystem
Outside the conference venue, localities in the province displayed their “intelligent transformation and digital upgrading” achievements: Tieling Muyuan introduced the Netherlands Marel slaughtering and cutting production line and built a full-business integrated platform, improving production efficiency by 15 percentage points; Fuxin built 3 5G integration pilot zones, with key industrial parks achieving full 5G coverage; Jinzhou cultivated two national-level excellent intelligent manufacturing scenarios and built 36 advanced-level smart factories and provincial-level digital workshops.
September 9, guests watch a robot performance outside the venue.
The opening ceremony conveyed a clear signal: actively build an industrial internet ecosystem chain. Meng Ling, general manager of Inspur Group’s Liaoning company, said that relying on years of accumulated internet technology, it has built 15 vertical-domain industry large models and released intelligent agents for 43 industries, supporting enterprises’ “intelligent transformation and digital upgrading” and overall digital transformation, allowing AI to more effectively help the production frontline.
Shenyang Blower Works Group has become one of the country’s first batch of excellence-level smart factories and a national-level demonstration project for the integrated development of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing. Hao Yuming, director of the group’s Information Data Center, said that digital solutions accumulated in certain production scenarios are willing to be provided free of charge to upstream enterprises for use, which not only helps upgrade the ecosystem chain but also facilitates dynamic understanding of their production capacity and product quality, reducing time and economic costs compared with traditional procurement models. Using the power of a “chain leader” to improve the ecosystem chain, helping others is also helping oneself.
With the conference as a window, Liaoning is keeping pace with the world, promoting the evolution of the industrial internet from point-based applications to a chain-based ecosystem, and injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of manufacturing.
About 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference
The 2026 Global Industrial Internet Conference opened in Shenyang. Industry experts and representatives of leading enterprises from around the world gathered to witness the iterative development of China’s industrial internet technology, ecosystem building, and the new changes in Liaoning’s “intelligent transformation and digital upgrading” through experience sharing, keynote speeches, and achievement releases.
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