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Rugao hosts Chinese IOT Innovation and Development Forum

Updated: 2018-12-11

The 2nd Chinese Industrial Internet of Things Innovation and Development Forum was held in Rugao, a county-level city of Nantong, East China’s Jiangsu province, on Dec 8. 

He Yijun, deputy Party secretary and mayor of Rugao, said that Rugao is focusing on becoming a green manufacturing base of new energy and new energy vehicles, and a friendly city of creativity and entrepreneurship focusing on the software and information industries. In addition it is focusing on longevity and health preservation for its residents through the development of technology.

The forum will boost the industrial IoT development and the construction of an intelligent manufacturing demonstration area in Rugao. The city will look to deepen government reforms and improve services in order to provide a suitable climate for the development of industrial IoT in Rugao, He added.

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The 2nd Chinese Industrial Internet of Things Innovation and Development Forum is held in Rugao, a county-level city of Nantong, East China’s Jiangsu province, on Dec 8, 2018. [Photo/WeChat account: space-oss]

Shen Changxiang, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Cai Weici, a senior adviser at the China Machinery Industry Federation, Qu Dawei, vice-president of the China Center for Information Industry Development, Yao Jia, a researcher of the science and technology department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as well as Rugao’s officials, He Yijun, Mao Hongyu, Qian Zhigang and Liu Xiaojie, attended the forum.

The forum also issued a white paper titled "the Development of China's Intelligent Sensor Industry".