Recently, the 8th FDC Digital Industry Summit was held at the New Cairo International Convention Center in Egypt. Egyptian Minister of Industry Khalid Hashim, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Ra'fat Hendi, Chairman of the Summit Organizing Committee Tariq Shabak, ambassadors from multiple countries, heads of relevant Egyptian government agencies, key enterprises in the information and communication industry, industry experts, and representatives of Chinese and foreign governments and enterprises attended the conference. Minister Hashim stated in his opening speech at the summit that the current global iteration of artificial intelligence and digital technology is accelerating, continuously reshaping global industrial production, commercial operations, and public service models, and expanding new space for global economic innovation and growth. The FDC Digital Industry Summit has established an efficient platform for communication and cooperation, creating favorable conditions for all parties to discuss cutting-edge issues such as artificial intelligence and network security, and share industry development experience.

Intelligent manufacturing is included in the national strategy

It is reported that the Egyptian Ministry of Industry has established the modernization of industrial technology and the transformation of intelligent manufacturing as important supports for the national industrial development strategy. This strategy focuses on consolidating the complete industrial system, deepening local manufacturing capabilities, expanding industrial export scale, and promoting the deep integration of Egyptian industry into regional and global industrial and value chains. Hashim emphasized that the transformation and upgrading of Egypt's industry is not simply about expanding production capacity or adding new production lines. The core goal is to build a modern industrial system that is intelligent, efficient, and safe, achieve independent technological implementation, and possess international competitiveness. Egypt's industrial development will gradually complete iterative upgrading, shifting from simply introducing and applying advanced technologies to a full chain model of participating in technology research and development, local production and manufacturing, and external technology output.

Intensify support for the digital industry

The Egyptian Ministry of Industry continues to increase policy support for industrial digitization, artificial intelligence, and industrial automation, fully promoting the implementation of intelligent manufacturing concepts in the real economy. The series of measures will effectively optimize Egypt's industrial production process and supply chain system, reduce production and operation costs, and enhance the quality level and international competitiveness of industrial products. At present, Egypt continues to activate the service efficiency of its industrial modernization center, focusing on the digital transformation needs of enterprises and providing specialized modern technology solutions for industrial enterprises and production factories. Hashem stated that this summit is the first time that the Egyptian Ministry of Industry has participated in the FDC Digital Industry Summit, which reflects Egypt's high attention to industrial digitization and intelligent transformation at the national level. In recent years, Egypt has continuously improved its digital infrastructure across the entire industry, with mature supporting systems such as communication networks, data centers, and cloud services, laying a solid hardware foundation for the large-scale promotion of intelligent manufacturing in the industrial sector. Keywords: high-tech news and information, digitalization, industrial transformation

Focus on absorbing technology transfer investments

Hashem calls on local Egyptian enterprises to actively embrace digital transformation, fully integrate digital technology and intelligent solutions into the entire production and manufacturing process, efficiently integrate industrial resources, and accelerate integration with the global innovation and development wave. He pointed out that Egypt, relying on its superior geographical conditions, well-established infrastructure and logistics system, and mature multilateral trade agreements, continues to consolidate its position as a production, manufacturing, and export hub in the Middle East and Africa regions. The current investment orientation in Egypt continues to optimize, focusing on high-quality industrial investment that can achieve technology transfer and localization on the basis of absorbing conventional production-oriented investment, and promoting the organic combination of investment attraction, technology attraction, and intelligence attraction. During the summit, Hashem sincerely invited global enterprises to increase their industrial layout and digital technology investment in Egypt, promote safe and efficient digital application solutions, and empower high-quality development of Egyptian industry with technological innovation.Editor/Gao Xue