As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 263 Steel Industry
It is already the beginning of 2026, and ten years have passed since the proposal of Made in China 2025.

Made in China 2025 is an action plan issued in May 2015 for China's first ten years of implementing its strategy to become a manufacturing power.

It contains a large number of ideas and blueprints for innovation-driven manufacturing.

China has high hopes for 2025. The deadlines for important completion of China's manufacturing, state-owned enterprise reform, the 2025th Five-Year Plan, etc. are all set for .

Of course, there is a gap between reality and blueprint. This is normal.

When we look back at the end of the year and see the plans we set at the beginning of the year, we would be lucky if we can complete one tenth of them.

Although China has achieved catch-up in many aspects, it still has a long way to go if it wants to achieve true next-generation industrial intelligence.

For example, using the deep integration of informatization and industrialization to lead and drive the development of the entire manufacturing industry. From this goal alone, the current industry cannot be said to be deeply integrated.

The application of informatization in manufacturing is only in some areas, not the entire manufacturing industry.

The most fundamental reason is that the manufacturing industry has low profits, especially the low-end manufacturing industry. Low profits mean that you don’t have extra resources to invest in informationization and intelligence.

Therefore, the final official announcement of Made in China 2025 was only made based on analysis of GDP and industrial output value.

For example, how much has the proportion of mid-range industrial output value increased, how much has the output value of smart industry increased, and what goals have been achieved by industrial intelligence.

Then higher goals were proposed for the future Made in China 2035.

The smart steel production base jointly developed by Baosteel, Huawei and Kechuang Biotechnology is hailed as the opening work of China Manufacturing 2035.

From the local areas to Yanjing, everyone had high hopes for it.

"Okay, I look forward to good news from Kechuang Biotechnology. It is really difficult to ask you to move your headquarters in such a short time.

Ke Chuang Bio can start by setting up a research and development center in Shenhai to experience and feel the business environment of Shenhai.

I hope Zheng Li can come to Shenhai more often, maybe he will like the local customs and people of Shenhai."

Zheng Li still firmly holds the controlling stake in Kechuang Bio.

When the founder of a company is still there, it is almost impossible for others to take away the actual control of the company from him, even if he does not have a controlling stake.

This is especially true for larger companies.

When the founder of Disney was still alive in the last century, even though he did not have a controlling stake in Disney, he was the actual controller of Disney until his death.

After Walt Disney's death, Disney's other shareholders quickly took power away from the Disney family.

Li Miaomiao smiled and said, "Of course, Shenhai has the largest number of companies in China.

It must be because of the good business environment that so many small and medium-sized enterprises gather in Shenhai.

I believe that the business environment and money-making effect created by the Shenhai Municipal Government for enterprises are absolutely the best in China.

If I have the chance, I will definitely persuade Mr. Zheng to come to Shenhai on business trips more often.

But you also understand that Zheng Li's current identity is quite sensitive, so he has to register with the Abnormal Affairs Management Bureau whenever he travels or goes anywhere."

Zheng Li is the only mage in China who is outside the national system.

He has a relatively superficial cooperation with the China Anomalous Affairs Bureau.

But this does not prevent the Administration of Anomalous Matters from making some demands on Zheng Li.

"I was abrupt."

After the leader of Shenhai finished talking with Li Miaomiao, he chatted with the executives of Baosteel and Huawei respectively, and then left the venue.

He cut the ribbon and gave a speech at the smart steel production base of Baosteel's Baoshan plant, and then chatted with everyone after he came down, which was already outside the schedule.

After the leader leaves, the situation becomes much more casual.

Information technology has a wide range of applications in manufacturing.

Among them, the steel industry is a very good application scenario.

We can all hear the familiar Internet concepts in the media. Technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain can all shine in the steel industry, which has a history of hundreds of years.

The domestic steel industry can be traced back to the Hanyang Iron and Steel Works in 1890.

These technologies have a wide range of application scenarios in the steel industry.

Take blockchain, which sounds like it has nothing to do with the steel industry. In fact, blockchain technology has been used in the steel industry for a long time.

For example, Pangang uses the underlying blockchain technology to build its own warehouse data platform to ensure that the quantity of steel after storage cannot be tampered with.

The most basic technology of blockchain is digital encryption to prevent tampering, and the steel produced by the steel industry can be stored through blockchain during the transportation process to ensure that digital goods will not be tampered with.

The amount of goods produced will be the same as the amount of goods shipped out.

In addition to the warehouse data middle platform, Pangang also uses it in bill storage, which will not be elaborated here.

As early as the beginning of 2022, three Chinese departments jointly issued a document entitled "Guiding Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development of the Steel Industry."

The opinions clearly point out the need to promote the application of technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence in the steel industry.

Baosteel's smart steel factory directly uses artificial intelligence to implement transportation, cold rolling inspection, ironmaking and other processes that can be achieved through artificial intelligence.

In high-risk environments that require manual operation, all skilled workers are trained to remotely control the factory's robot operations through industrial VR.

The entire factory has been unmanned.

At the same time, the number of workers in all operations combined is less than one-tenth of that in traditional steel production.

By the way, let me mention Pangang mentioned earlier. As early as 2019, Ali’s Ali Cloud Industrial Brain was launched in Pangang.

At that time, it included the iron-making process, which used artificial intelligence to reduce blowing loss and splashing, reduce the TFe content in the slag by 1%, reduce the oxygen activity index by 10ppm, and significantly reduce the loss of steel materials.

The smart factory jointly built by Baosteel and Huawei this time is the culmination of Huawei's smart industrial work in the steel field in recent times.

All the latest results of Huawei’s previous cooperation with Liuzhou Iron and Steel and Xingang have been applied to Baosteel’s smart production base.

Baosteel's smart production base is also equivalent to Huawei's model project. If the effect is good and can be promoted on a large scale across the country in the future, Huawei will have found a new profit growth point.

For China, this also provides another solution to the problem of young people being unwilling to work in factories.

Since it can be implemented in the steel industry, we can also see broad prospects for the implementation of artificial intelligence in more manufacturing industries.

Only one-tenth of the previous workers are needed, and the welfare benefits of the workers can be appropriately improved to achieve the return of manufacturing employment.

In fact, it’s not just Hua Wei, Ahri also wants to grab this title.

However, Hua Wei was the first to reach an agreement on industrial VR cooperation with Ke Chuang Biotechnology, and his actions were faster than Ali.

Ali's smart steel production plant is already in the implementation stage, and their chosen partner manufacturer is still Panzhihua Iron and Steel.

After all, we have been cooperating with Pangang for so many years.

“The successful implementation of Baosteel’s smart factory is thanks to the strong support of you two and the companies behind you.

The subsequent operation and iterative upgrade of the smart factory will still rely on you a lot. "

Another important reason why Huawei chose Baosteel as its partner was that Huawei had enough technical personnel in Shenhai. The number of personnel in Huawei's branch in Shenhai was second only to that in Songshan Lake headquarters.

Li Miaomiao said with emotion: "Hua Wei's technical ability is still very strong.

I remember that it took more than a year for Xiaomi and Tencent to work together to develop a VR operating system.

This time, the industrial VR operating system that Hua Wei developed didn’t seem to be used for even half a year.”

The person in charge of Huawei is very modest: "The positioning and requirements of the two are different, and the development difficulty is also different.

Mr. Li, since you are not a technical person, I will tell you the truth in front of you two.

Huawei's industrial VR operating system only needs to ensure communication stability and short operation delay, and it will be fine if it can achieve these two points.

The futureverse has more to consider.

The VR operating system is like iOS, which needs to consider aspects such as communication and entertainment, while the industrial VR operating system is like a walkie-talkie, which only needs to consider communication.

It’s not that our technical strength is much ahead of Tencent and Dami.”

Hua Wei does not want to set the tone too high so as not to give Baosteel too high expectations.

If you set too high expectations, it will be embarrassing if you fail to meet them later.

What you need to do at this time is to be low-key in your life and high-key in your work.

Li Miaomiao: “So that’s how it is, that’s pretty amazing.

This time I visited Baosteel's smart factory, and my biggest impression was that technology has developed too fast in recent years.

The last time I went to the Yangtze River Delta Logistics Center for research, I found that all logistics truck drivers are now artificial intelligence. "

As the general manager of Ke Chuang Biotechnology, Li Miaomiao often needs to conduct research in the surrounding areas.

Sometimes I have no choice. When I went to the logistics park, I followed a group of bigwigs to visit when Jiangsu Province was communicating with private enterprises in Zhejiang Province.

Huawei’s senior executives nodded and said: “In recent years, we have only gradually put into practice the accumulation in the field of artificial intelligence.

The first area where autonomous driving was implemented was freight, because traditional truck drivers work a maximum of twelve hours a day.

Truck drivers can't drive after 2 a.m.

Therefore, companies with high efficiency requirements will adopt the method of two truck drivers taking turns driving to achieve round-the-clock operation.

But the labor cost is also high. The labor cost of a truck driver is at least 15,000 yuan per month.

Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, it can run non-stop for 24 hours without human intervention.

Huawei is also working on autonomous driving. Currently, we are mainly working on unmanned driving in cooperation with the Post Office and China Communications Construction Logistics.

According to the data we have obtained, the postal logistics costs have been reduced by about 50% through unmanned driving.

However, autonomous driving still needs to be mature before it can be used in urban scenarios.

After all, the road conditions on highways and in cities are completely different.”

In the past, the cost of logistics was manpower, but now a large part of the manpower cost has been converted into usage fees paid to artificial intelligence companies.

Of course, there are the costs of retrofitting the trucks, which require the installation of additional sensors, cameras and truck communications equipment.

This is when the importance of 5G becomes apparent.

The advantages of 5G, such as low latency, high reliability and low power consumption compared to 4G, are essential for autonomous driving.

“I remember that we had invited a computer expert who specialized in autonomous driving to give a lecture.

He said at the time that driverless cars could not be implemented because the biggest problem was the division of responsibilities: the car company, the algorithm provider, or the driver. It was difficult to define the responsibility.

Li Miaomiao mentioned that there will be regular training within Ke Chuang Bio, as well as some open classes, and the teachers invited are all top experts in the corresponding fields.

“Yes, driverless trucks won’t have this problem.

Because there are cameras after the incident, how can an ordinary individual possibly defeat the company's legal department?

Once the camera is pulled out, it will be clear whoever is responsible will be held responsible.

It’s not like there haven’t been accidents involving driverless trucks in the past two years, but there have been almost no cases in which companies have actually required compensation.

Most companies only give small compensation out of humanitarian reasons.”

"Companies still need to consider their social responsibilities most of the time. When safety accidents occur at Baosteel, we generally compensate the workers who have accidents according to the highest standards."

The words of Baosteel executives are due to their stance. Baosteel is a state-controlled enterprise, and the compensation is not private compensation but state compensation. Naturally, they will not be the bad guys.

Most of the domestic logistics companies are private enterprises, and private enterprises determine that their internal assessments must be based purely on maximizing corporate interests.

"That's the truth. We at Huawei have also been practicing social responsibility in various ways."

When Li Miaomiao heard that the conversation between the two had gone completely off track, she suddenly felt tired and didn't want to talk.

While Li Miaomiao remained silent, she thought that Ke Chuang Biotechnology did not require its employees to work overtime, which showed it had more social responsibility than Hua Wei.

After all, developed countries have begun to gradually implement a four-day work week.

After Li Miaomiao visited the entire factory, her biggest feeling was that the development of technology could solve many problems.

She also actually experienced operating an industrial VR robot, which felt like playing with a mecha.

Only the robot held a wrench instead of a lightsaber.

After using industrial VR, Li Miaomiao had an idea.

Can they organize a robot fighting competition where real people can improve their VR robot operation skills?

The robots are developed by each company, and then they fight each other every week in the same MMA format.

The tour starts with one tournament per week, the winner gets points, and then the teams with the highest points ranking will compete for the overall championship of the year.

As for the model of the robot, it is developed by the company itself.

It is equivalent to a stage that demonstrates the technological strength of an enterprise. If it is operated well, it can even attract the attention of the whole world.

Li Miaomiao thought this was a very good idea and she could discuss it with the senior executives after returning.

However, what she did not foresee was that no matter what the idea was, as long as it came from her mouth, other executives would only think about how to implement the idea.

Without thinking about whether this idea is feasible.

What’s more important is that Ke Chuang Biotechnology is not originally from the manufacturing industry. They organize the robot fighting competition just to set up a stage for others.

If you participate in the competition yourself, you may even be beaten up.

"This visit to Baosteel is very rewarding. Baosteel is indeed the most advanced steel company in China."

(End of this chapter)