Qian Xiaojun, Founder & CEO of League of Nations: Reshaping a New Engine of Global Productivity Growth with Collaborative Innovation of Industrial Internet

Shanghai Securities News China Securities Network News (Reporter Chen Fang) Qian Xiaojun, founder and CEO of Guolian Shares, stated at the 16th Annual Meeting of New Champions of the World Economic Forum ("Summer Davos Forum") on the 24th that industrial internet is the "digital engine" of new quality productivity in the real economy, reshaping the resilience of the global value chain. Industrial internet is driving a leap in global productivity through connection breakthroughs, data empowerment, and collaborative symbiosis.

Global productivity growth faces structural dilemmas

Qian Xiaojun analyzed that the structural dilemma of global productivity growth is the disconnection between traditional paradigms and the digital age. Geopolitical conflicts and trade protectionism accelerate the fragmentation of industrial chains, the gradient gap in digital penetration leads to transformation difficulties for small and medium-sized enterprises, and the disconnection in technology transformation and trust deficit restricts the release of innovation value.

The World Trade Organization's "2024 Global Trade Report" shows that the growth rate of intermediate goods trade has dropped to 1.2%, a ten-year low. The localization rate of supply chains in globalized industries such as automobiles and electronics has increased by 18% within three years, raising corporate procurement costs and disrupting the efficiency system of global division of labor.

"In the industrial field, issues such as information asymmetry, inefficient supply chains, and rough production severely restrict the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises, exacerbate development imbalances between companies, and weaken the overall resilience of the global industrial chain. McKinsey research shows that only 15% of small and medium-sized enterprises globally have achieved deep digitalization, while this proportion exceeds 60% for large enterprises," Qian Xiaojun stated.

In his view, technologies such as AI and quantum computing are developing rapidly, but the rate of achievement transformation is insufficient, mostly remaining in laboratories or closed scenarios of leading enterprises. In cross-border business, differences in data regulation among countries trigger a trust crisis, urgently requiring the construction of a global collaboration system based on technological trust.

"Facing challenges, industrial internet, as a key force driving digital transformation and upgrading across industries, is profoundly reshaping the global industrial landscape," Qian Xiaojun said.

Industrial internet industry reconstructs new paradigm of global productivity

Qian Xiaojun believes that the industrial internet industry is reconstructing a new paradigm of global productivity through a series of innovative practices, from data element configuration, industrial digital empowerment systems, and global collaborative innovation dimensions.

In terms of data element configuration, he believes that the industrial internet industry focuses on building a large and high-value data asset pool, accumulated over many years, aggregating massive supply and demand data through digital trading platforms, conducting real-time analysis of production, sales, supply chain, and other multi-dimensional data, enabling enterprises to timely and accurately grasp market dynamics, transforming the fragmented "business flow, logistics, capital flow" into a real-time interactive digital network.

"Quantum computing, as a frontier technology, has already shown practical results in the industrial internet field. In the future, quantum computing is expected to bring new breakthroughs to industrial internet in complex calculations and data security, driving fundamental changes in the industry," Qian Xiaojun said.

The industrial digital empowerment system is a key tool for industrial internet to enhance productivity. Qian Xiaojun analyzed that in the digital transformation of manufacturing, the bottleneck of insufficient transformation capabilities of small and medium-sized enterprises has led the industry to explore many effective paths. For example, through modular transformation, enterprises can flexibly choose digital solutions according to their needs; using industrial large models to deeply train production data, achieving a shift from "experience decision-making" to "intelligent optimization"; adopting cloud deployment models and other lightweight investment methods, significantly reducing the cost of digital transformation for enterprises.

Qian Xiaojun used digital cloud factories as an example. He introduced that digital cloud factories leverage AI, IoT, and digital twin technology to achieve full-process digital management from production management to quality inspection, improving enterprise production efficiency and product quality. The digital supply chain system integrates smart logistics and digital warehousing, and innovates multimodal transport algorithms to enhance the collaborative efficiency and response speed of the supply chain. The industrial internet closed loop uses digital cloud factories as nodes and digital supply chains as links, driving "four flows in one" through real-time transaction data, connecting upstream and downstream industries, forming an efficiently operating industrial ecosystem.

In his view, as industrial internet continues to develop, a global industrial internet innovation ecosystem is gradually forming. In cross-border business, industrial internet reconstructs the supply chain system through digitalization, achieving data sharing across nine key nodes: customs, taxes, exchange, government, business, ports, shipping, warehousing, and finance. In the B2B cross-border e-commerce "production-purchase-sales-overseas circulation" chain, the purchase and sales end relies on blockchain technology to achieve cross-domain mutual recognition of customs declarations and quality inspection reports; the logistics end connects cross-border shipping lines through the "digital supply chain" platform, reducing logistics costs by 35%; the production end "digital cloud factory" meets the core value needs of digital transformation, cost reduction, and efficiency enhancement for foreign factories.

"This full-chain collaborative innovation not only reshapes global industrial collaboration but also builds a new industrial ecosystem across regions and systems with digital trust as the link, becoming the 'digital engine' driving the leap in global productivity, enabling technology innovation and institutional innovation to achieve mutual empowerment in the reconstruction of the global value chain," Qian Xiaojun said.

Building an "Industrial Digital Ecosystem Community"

In Qian Xiaojun's view, the key breakthrough point of collaborative innovation lies in building an "industrial digital ecosystem community." Solving global productivity development issues requires collaboration among governments, enterprises, and research institutions to build a new collaborative ecosystem.

He believes that strengthening government-enterprise collaboration is essential to solidify the foundation of digital economy development. Establishing long-term cooperation mechanisms, jointly building digital demonstration parks, breaking resource barriers, and achieving efficient allocation of elements such as land, capital, and data. Promoting the application of industrial internet in key areas, creating a collaborative paradigm of "policy empowerment + enterprise innovation."

Deepening industry-university-research integration helps to bridge the "last mile" of technology transformation. He believes that industry-university-research collaboration is an important way to accelerate the industrial transformation of technological achievements. Encouraging enterprises and research institutions to jointly build laboratories, focusing on AI, quantum computing, and other technological challenges, establishing a market-oriented transformation mechanism to accelerate technology implementation.

In promoting international digital cooperation, he stated that it is necessary to build a unified industrial chain trust standard, call for coordination of digital trade rules, rely on blockchain and quantum encryption technology to create cross-border platforms, enhance transaction transparency, serve the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," export digital standards, and strengthen international discourse power.

Qian Xiaojun emphasized that industrial internet is driving a leap in global productivity in the relay race through connection breakthroughs, data empowerment, and collaborative symbiosis. In the future, it will accelerate the integration of technology and industry, break down industrial chain barriers, and reconstruct cross-border trust systems.

(Source: Industrial Internet Vision Author: Chen Fang)