On December 15, 2020, the official website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission published an article signed by China Baowu Party Secretary and Chairman Chen Derong in the “Digital Transformation of State-owned Enterprises” column, "China Baowu: Digital Intelligence Reshapes Future Steel" China Baowu actively responds to the digital economy era Call for proactive implementation of the national strategy, adhere to the new development concept, commit to building a world-class enterprise with global competitiveness, give full play to the leading role of state-owned enterprises in the new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and vigorously promote the new generation of information technology and The deep integration of the steel industry has reshaped the traditional steel industry through digitalization.

China's Baowu Digital Intelligence Transformation Development Requirements

After 130 years of tortuous development, China's modern steel industry has embarked on a road of steel development based on socialism with Chinese characteristics, creating a miracle in the history of world steel development. At present, China’s iron and steel industry has successfully solved the quantitative problems of “is there” and “is enough”, but it still needs to solve the current situation and pain points of industries such as oversupply, environmental load, cost pressure, talent shortage, energy consumption, and production safety. The quality problem of "good" and "strong or not".

The general trend is coming, and the future is here. All previous technological revolutions have given birth to new industrial patterns. Today’s world has undergone major changes unseen in a century. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “a new round of technological and industrial revolution is creating historic opportunities.” Smart manufacturing is becoming the core driving force of the new round of industrial revolution, and smart technology will undoubtedly become economic growth. It is imperative to promote the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy, and accelerate the digital transformation.

Iron and steel is a traditional manufacturing industry. As far as production process control is concerned, the steel manufacturing process has the most complex and severe working conditions, the most stringent control accuracy requirements, and the most application scenarios. It is very urgent for the Internet, Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence. Demand. China Baowu is positioned as a high-tech enterprise with the steel industry as its main carrier and actively seeking transformation. It is inseparable from technological innovation and business model innovation to transform from "boss" to "strong". Therefore, China Baowu is taking advantage of the trend, actively exploring, seizing the development opportunities of the times, actively implementing the "double cycle strategy", accelerating the construction of digital intelligence, and giving full play to the empowering and leading role of digital technology in the development of the steel industry. Manufacturing advantages are superimposed with networking and intelligence, effectively improving the quality and efficiency of enterprise products and services, and promoting fundamental changes in steel manufacturing production methods and corporate forms; at the same time, promoting industrial transformation and upgrading with the digitization and intelligence of products and services as the guide And the innovation of business model, cultivate new development momentum, and further enhance the modernization level of the steel industry chain and the competitiveness of the steel industry.

China Baowu Digital Intelligence Transformation Practice and Initial Results

China Baowu actively promotes digital transformation concepts such as data-driven, integrated innovation, and collaborative sharing, and explores transformation practices in the three areas of smart manufacturing, smart services, and smart governance, and has achieved initial results.

One is to continue to promote the "Four Unities" goal and accelerate the creation of a smart steel plant. China Baowu proposes to promote smart manufacturing with the "four uniforms", that is, "manufacturing operation rooms are centralized and moved away from the site, manual manual operations are all robots, equipment operation and maintenance are all remote, and services are all online." Through the implementation of the operation room, a batch of excellent practices of centralized control centers are formed, breaking the traditional factory management structure, and making highly intensive management possible; by promoting the unmanned and small number of people on the site, speeding up new technologies such as industrial robots, unmanned driving, and artificial intelligence In the application of technology, the Shanghai base takes the lead in the world to achieve "one-click steelmaking and tapping"; through the promotion of all remote equipment operation and maintenance, the system linkage carries out the deployment of multi-base equipment remote operation and maintenance, and promotes the transformation and upgrading of the company's equipment management system; promotes "all services online" , To vigorously promote the online procurement of subsidiaries and online sales of steel products. Right now, with the massive applications of black light factories, unmanned warehouses, digital workshops, smart factories, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, 5G, simulation, and AR technology, steel mills are no longer stupid. , The oily pollution, Baosteel Baoshan Base was selected as the first "lighthouse factory" in the domestic steel industry, China Baowu is transforming and upgrading to a modern high-tech enterprise.

The second is to collaborate to build a high-quality steel ecosystem and build a leading enterprise in the industrial Internet field. Relying on the support of big data, networked sharing and intelligent collaboration, China Baowu has innovated a new smart service model and created a third-party steel cloud platform: "industrial e-commerce" + "industrial logistics" + "industrial finance". In the field of industrial e-commerce, through online steel new retail services, supporting warehousing, transportation, processing and other value-added services to meet the needs of users for convenient transactions and precise delivery. The platform currently has more than 120,000 corporate users and more than 5,000 daily transaction users. In the field of "industrial logistics", we have built a smart logistics service system. At present, it has access to more than 2,000 warehousing companies, 5,000 transportation companies, and more than 1,000 processing production lines. In the field of "industrial finance", we will build a smart financial service system and build an online digital financial service platform for China Baowu. It has accumulated hundreds of billions of business and served 2,000 small and medium-sized enterprises. During the new crown epidemic, the construction of the steel ecosystem played a positive role in China Baowu's acceleration of the resumption of work and production.

The third is to promote management reform and process reengineering, and upgrade the modernization of the governance system and governance capabilities. Based on the application of the new generation of industrial Internet technology, China Baowu boldly promotes the reform of the organizational form of steel enterprises and the corporate governance system of group companies. At the group level, China Baowu, as a state-owned capital investment and operation company, uses digital and intelligent means to gradually build a new platform for smart governance of state-owned capital investment companies, to achieve integration and integration with the comprehensive information monitoring and display system for state-owned assets supervision, combining supervision with management. At the subsidiary level, create a "one headquarters and multiple bases" management and control model, build a smart and efficient headquarters, build a smart and agile manufacturing base, and form a "1+N" smart era network profile of "a smart decision center + a series of smart factories" Factory, and gradually evolve to One Mill, which is borderless, open, win-win and mutual trust. At the professional level, it breaks geographical boundaries, administrative boundaries, and hierarchical boundaries, and uses the Industrial Internet to realize interconnection and remote intelligent application of data in the same major (such as blast furnace, hot rolling), so as to realize cross-regional and cross-unit specialized collaborative sharing.

China Baowu Digital Intelligence Transformation Empowers and Creates the Future

In the future, China Baowu will strengthen the top-level design and overall planning of the comprehensive transformation and development of informatization to digital, networked, and intelligent, focusing on technological innovation, management innovation, and business model innovation, with "new ecology", "new infrastructure", and "new infrastructure". The construction of new technologies, "new guarantees" and other aspects are measures to promote the development of digital industrialization through technological empowerment, support the construction of various business cloud platforms in the steel ecosystem, and lead the comprehensive transformation and upgrading of the steel industry.

The first is to vigorously promote the innovation of "new infrastructure" and "new technology" to create a foundation for the interconnection of the ecosystem. China Baowu adheres to the leading strategy of technological innovation, and takes the lead in the construction of new infrastructure for digital transformation. In the new planning period, we are committed to continuously building "a cloud", namely Baowu distributed cloud computing center, to provide data centers and clouds for customers in the Internet ecosystem Computing service capabilities; "One network" is a high-speed bearer network covering the whole country, which provides the "main artery" for the construction of the ecosystem; "One platform" is China's Baowu Industrial Internet Ecological Platform, which is suitable for the industrial Internet architecture of large steel groups. The comprehensive connection of all elements, the entire industry chain, and the entire value chain supports global controllability and coordination of the entire industry chain; "One Big Data Center" is a unified cloud deployment of the big data center architecture, in order to realize data-to-asset and data-driven innovation Lay the foundation for a new business model. Facing the frontiers of international and domestic science and technology, speed up key core application technology research, track the general trend of world science and technology development, study and judge the general trend of the development of the steel industry, deploy a technological innovation chain around the industrial chain, and deploy six types of "new technologies" to deepen integration in the steel industry Research and development.

The second is to vigorously promote the "new guarantee" innovation, and build a complete digital intelligence research and development system and big data governance system. In order to ensure the solid implementation of the Group's digital intelligence transformation strategy, we actively build a collaborative innovation, professional collaboration, base collaboration, domestic collaboration, international collaboration, open and win-win digital intelligence research and development system. At the beginning of the new year in 2020, China Baowu Industrial Internet Research Institute and China Baowu Big Data Center will be established, co-authored with Baosight Software, coordinating the architecture design and cutting-edge technology research of China Baowu Industrial Internet/Big Data Center, and actively participating in various The formulation of standards and patents contributes to Baowu's strength and leads the development of the industry. On the other hand, the group company will further carry out systematic and overall research and planning to build a big data governance system under the principle of “integration of governance and operation, interconnection, logical unification, and separation of physical deployment authorizations”. "Organizational construction strategy, the group and its subsidiaries coordinated to configure data governance and operation functions, unified and integrated the construction of the group's full-level business domains, and designed and compiled relevant systems, procedures, and specifications for governance and operation. Through the construction of a good data ecological environment, the goal of collaborative construction is achieved, so that the steel ecosystem will become more vigorous and prosperous.

The third is to vigorously promote the "new ecology" innovation, build an industry-leading digital service leader, and continue to create value for users. Combining with the construction strategy of the eight major functional systems of the iron and steel ecosystem, comprehensively build a smart steel digital ecosystem that combines virtual reality with China Baowu. Initially build a digital intelligence application system with 3+8+6 ubiquitous links, data sharing, business penetration and comprehensive perception; build a batch of "platform +" digital intelligence ecological business cloud benchmarks, significantly enhance platform competitiveness; improve data and funds Such as the circulation efficiency of production factors, high-quality industrial big data has achieved PB-level breakthroughs, and comprehensively improved the application innovation capabilities and digital intelligence empowerment levels of the high-quality steel ecosystem and state-owned capital investment companies' smart governance modernization. Reasonably deploy the digital industry, focus on the fields of trading, logistics, finance, remote operation and maintenance, engineering design, big data, industrial Internet, etc., cultivate a group of industry-leading digital service leading enterprises, and develop and output digital transformation products and system solutions.

China Baowu will earnestly implement the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary Jinping’s inspection of China Baowu, and uphold the historical mission of serving the country with steel, making steel different from me. We believe that digitization and intelligence will reshape the steel industry. The future of steel has arrived. We will Do not forget the original aspiration and shoulder the mission to advance the digital and intelligent steel business and move forward bravely, making China Baowu a leader of smart enterprises and a builder of digital steel ecology! Efforts to build China Baowu into a mainstay of "full stamina" in building a modern socialist country, a leader in the global steel industry and a world-class enterprise with global competitiveness.Editor/Xing Wentao