Liang Zaizhong: Take the road of industry to serve the country

◇At present, Tree Root Internet has provided industrial Internet services for nearly 1,000 industrial enterprises in dozens of industrial sub-sectors such as equipment manufacturing, iron and steel metallurgy, automobile and spare parts, and electrical

◇A strong manufacturing country is inseparable from entrepreneurs taking root in the Chinese market and carrying forward the entrepreneurial spirit from generation to generation

◇The growth of the new generation of entrepreneurs should always maintain the "four thousand" spirit of private entrepreneurs, that is, to travel through thousands of mountains and rivers, speak thousands of words, try every possible way, and endure thousands of hardships

"Lookout" Newsweek reporter Jia Wenjing

Tree Root Internet customer centralized control operation command center

With the in-depth development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, all sectors of society attach great importance to the development of the digital economy.

In February this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China", emphasizing the promotion of the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy. As a key infrastructure for the deep integration of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing, the industrial Internet has developed rapidly in recent years, and a large number of pillar industries of the national economy have carried out the innovative practice of "5G + Industrial Internet", with more than 4,000 projects under construction across the country.

As the first batch of national cross-industry and cross-domain industrial Internet platform enterprises selected by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, RootRoot Interconnection Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as RootRoot) has developed an industrial Internet platform with an independent and controllable industrial Internet operating system as the core - Root Cloud Platform, which has provided industrial Internet services for nearly 1,000 industrial enterprises in dozens of industrial subdivisions such as equipment manufacturing, iron and steel metallurgy, automobile vehicles and spare parts, and electrical, and is at the forefront of the industry.

Recently, "Lookout" Newsweek interviewed Liang Zaizhong, chairman of Tree Root Internet, to discuss the importance of the industrial Internet to manufacturing power, and what systematic solutions Tree Root Internet provides for the integration of data and reality. And excavate the story behind him, as a new generation of entrepreneurs, jumping out of the comfort zone created by his fathers, stepping onto his own stage of struggle, and striving to serve the country through industry.

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The industrial Internet builds a competitive advantage for a large country

Lookout: How to understand the strategic significance of the industrial Internet in the manufacturing power?

Liang Zaizhong: As a key carrier of transformation, the industrial Internet is an important force for the country to implement a manufacturing power. On the one hand, the industrial Internet, as a product of the deep integration and innovation of a new generation of information technology and manufacturing, can promote fundamental changes in the production mode, development mode and enterprise form of the manufacturing industry, and both large enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises can rely on the industrial Internet to enhance their competitiveness.

On the other hand, the industrial Internet is an urgent need to build a competitive advantage of a major country. In recent years, the global industrial structure has been deeply adjusted, and the supply chain layout of multinational enterprises has paid more attention to resilience and security. The industrial Internet platform is the hub for the connection of all industrial elements, the whole industrial chain and the whole value chain, and it is the one that supports the construction of an intelligent manufacturing and service system covering the whole industrial chain and the whole value chain, which can provide a strong guarantee for supplementing, optimizing and strengthening the chain.

Relying on the industrial Internet, the future manufacturing industry will be upgraded and superimposed on the "online digital world" on the basis of the "offline physical world", and the digitalization of enterprises will transform from a single application to the overall digitalization, from the internal management of the enterprise to the external ecological collaboration, and from the industrial chain and industrial cluster collaboration to the evolution of platform-based operation.

Lookout: What is the development status and future trend of China's industrial Internet?

Liang Zaizhong: As the country with the most complete industrial categories in the world, China has a huge prospect for the blue ocean of the industrial Internet. At present, all parts of the country have stepped up the layout of the industrial Internet to seize the new track of development. At the same time, industry leaders represented by Tree Root Internet, Haier Kaos, and Aerospace Cloud Network have sprung up, empowering new industrialization with their profound accumulation in the field of industrial Internet.

Taking tree root interconnection as an example, it has played an important role in many aspects. For example, in terms of economic operation monitoring, the "excavator index" created by Sany Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Sany Heavy Industry) based on the root cloud platform has become a vane that reflects economic changes such as infrastructure construction and observation of fixed asset investment. In terms of improving industrial added value, Tree Root Internet provides industrial Internet services for nearly 1,000 industrial enterprises in dozens of industrial subdivisions, helping industries reduce costs and increase efficiency.

At present, the development of China's industrial Internet has entered a new stage of upgrading. It is necessary to continue to build an industrial Internet operating system, focus on technological innovation through high R&D, deeply cultivate industrial application scenarios, improve the ability of common technology platforms, achieve downward access to industrial equipment and business data, realize data collection, processing and integration, support the rapid development of industrial APPs, and realize the ultimate value of the industrial Internet operating system.

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The interconnection points of the roots of the tree are "counted" into gold

Lookout: What is the effect of the Tree Root Interconnection Root Cloud Platform in empowering the real economy?

Liang Zaizhong: With the independent and controllable industrial Internet operating system as the core, the root cloud platform has undergone four iterations of development and wide application, has a mature and reliable technical foundation and large-scale application capabilities, and plays an important role in empowering the digital transformation of enterprises and promoting the coordinated development of the industrial chain.

Based on the root cloud platform 4.0, Tree Root Internet has built three types of solutions, one is the intelligent manufacturing solution, which helps enterprises better manage various production factors such as production equipment, and achieves the goals of cost reduction, efficiency increase, quality improvement, and environmental protection based on real-time dynamic data. It helps Sany Heavy Industry to take over the only two "lighthouse factories" in the global heavy industry industry, and also provides strong support for the construction of smart factories for large enterprises such as Great Wall Motor and Weihua Group.

The second is product intelligent solutions, which are applied in the field of global aftermarket services, providing intelligent product design, after-sales service and customer operation and other types of industrial applications, and have provided support for the remote operation and maintenance of high-value equipment for many construction machinery enterprises around the world.

The third is the industrial chain solution, which is committed to the comprehensive connection of supply enterprises, manufacturing enterprises and sales enterprises, and promotes the optimization of industrial chain resource allocation and overall coordination. Tree Root Internet gives full play to the role of the main enterprise of the industrial Internet chain and innovates to build a P2P2B business model. Platform, the root cloud platform, is a new foundation for digital transformation. Partner is an industry partner that co-creates value with leading enterprises and ecological suppliers; Business is the original equipment manufacturer and end-user in the industry, and works with companies with deep experience in the industry to jointly serve users in vertical industries.

Relying on this model, the company has created industrial Internet applications in multiple industrial chains such as environmental protection, casting, and textiles, and has driven the digital transformation of enterprises on the chain, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and empowered a large number of specialized and special new enterprises such as Xingbang Intelligence and Aidi Precision.

"Lookout": In what direction will the root cloud platform of Tree Root Internet go in the future?

Liang Zaizhong: Tree Root Internet has always been committed to integrating into and serving the overall development of the country, with the goal of promoting the high-quality development of the real economy, and guided by customers and the market, and will make efforts in four aspects in the future.

The first is to increase R&D investment in technological innovation breakthroughs. We will further build an independent and controllable industrial Internet operating system, improve the common core capabilities of common technology platforms, and launch more products and solutions.

The second is to insist on building a benchmark enterprise for digital transformation. Tree Root Connect will carry out the digital transformation of the whole value chain for more large enterprises and help create more industry benchmarks. At the same time, we will work with large enterprises to drive the digital upgrading of the industrial chain and cultivate more specialized and special new enterprises.

The third is to give full play to the role of the main enterprise of the industrial Internet chain. As a chain master enterprise in the field of industrial Internet, the company will empower more chain master enterprises to deepen their digital transformation based on the root cloud industrial Internet operating system, and help upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain with the help of the industrial Internet to jointly build a more flexible and resilient supply chain system. At the same time, we will cooperate with a number of large enterprises or chain owners to build industrial chain platform infrastructure to further promote the transformation and upgrading of industrial chains and industrial clusters.

Fourth, strengthen the cultivation of digital compound talents. Compound talents are the key to solving the problems of weak technical foundation and lack of experience in digital upgrading in traditional industries. In 2021, Tree Root Internet has been successfully selected into the list of the fourth batch of "1+X Certificate System Pilot Vocational Education and Training Evaluation Organization and Vocational Skill Level Certificate" of the Ministry of Education, and officially became the training and evaluation organization of the "Industrial Digital Twin Modeling and Application" Vocational Skill Level Certificate, and the company will continue to make efforts in talent cultivation in the future.

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Inherit the spirit of the fathers and be a good successor of the enterprise

Lookout: What qualities do you need to be a good new generation entrepreneur?

Liang Zaizhong: A manufacturing power is inseparable from entrepreneurs taking root in the Chinese market and carrying forward the entrepreneurial spirit from generation to generation. Since the reform and opening up, a large number of courageous and innovative entrepreneurs have formed a team of Chinese entrepreneurs with distinctive characteristics of the times, national characteristics, and world standards, and the new generation of entrepreneurs should continue to inherit and carry forward.

One is to have enthusiasm. The institutional environment of the reform and opening up over the past 40 years has provided opportunities for the predecessors to compete with the world, achieved the achievements of the older generation of entrepreneurs, and also provided a stage for the new generation of entrepreneurs to display their talents. We have a lot of love and respect for this land and know where we came from and why we are here.

Second, there is a pattern. Establish the right values and goals in life, and know where you want to go. It is necessary to have a broad mind, deeply understand the feelings of the world for the common good, learn to find inner balance in altruistic decisions, and seek a cure from a greater meaning, which is the mental support that we have been able to persist in being an enterprise for many years, and it is also the resilience of China's economy.

The third is to have concentration. Be able to calm down and do business steadfastly. Nourished by the excellent traditional Chinese culture, the older generation of outstanding entrepreneurs generally have the quality of hard work, simplicity, and hard work, and the new generation of entrepreneurs should do the same. In the field of industrial Internet, it is necessary not only to master the technical means and business philosophy of white-collar and gold-collar workers, but also to be able to settle down to be blue-collar workers, so that the industrial Internet can truly enter the scene.

Fourth, have courage. Open yourself up and be a crab eater. The growth of the new generation of entrepreneurs cannot be limited to the tree, and in the process of growth, it is more important to achieve self-breakthrough.

Lookout: What should the new generation of entrepreneurs do in practice?

Liang Zaizhong: Generally speaking, the growth of the new generation of entrepreneurs should always maintain the "four thousand" spirit of private entrepreneurs, that is, to travel through thousands of mountains and rivers, speak thousands of words, do everything possible, and endure countless hardships.

First of all, put the needs of the times. We should integrate our own development with the development of the country and the needs of the masses, and integrate our own capabilities into the construction of a strong country. For example, in the field of industrial Internet, we have a deep understanding of the changes of China's industrialization from a poor start, to gradually joining the international division of labor, and then to embarking on a new industrialization path of driving industrialization with informatization and promoting informatization with industrialization, and deeply understand the importance of digitalization to industry.

Since data was officially included in the scope of production factors, the digital policy environment has been continuously constructed, local digital construction has been actively implemented, and the digital transformation of enterprises has been accelerated. Previously, Internet platform companies mainly deployed in the consumer field, and there is still a lot to be done in the manufacturing field. This is my understanding of the era of digital-real integration, and it is also a consideration for creating a tree-root interconnection.

Secondly, take root in the market and gain market recognition. Building an industrial Internet is not an easy task, and Tree Root Internet has faced many difficulties in terms of strategic path selection, core business construction, key resource accumulation, and customer channel expansion.

The way to solve these problems is to deeply integrate into the market environment, continue to investigate and explore in various industrial segments, grasp the pain points of enterprise development, and clarify the demands of enterprise development. With the gradual deepening of the understanding of business entities, the construction of industrial Internet platforms has become more and more perfect, and more and more enterprises in various fields have put forward their willingness to cooperate. In 2022, RootInternet was listed in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial Internet for the fourth consecutive year, promoting the continuous growth of China's industrial Internet platform system.

Thirdly, based on China and looking at the world. When I first learned about Industry 4.0, in order to deeply understand its connotation, I went to Germany, the United States and other places to study and exchange, and combined with the specific reality of China's manufacturing industry, to lay the foundation for building an industrial Internet platform.

Through overseas study, I also see that China is the world's most potential market, with the most complete industrial supporting conditions, coupled with the hard work genes of the Chinese people, the future vitality and space of the manufacturing industry are unlimited. Therefore, entrepreneurs should temper and grow in the international market, actively make use of both domestic and international markets and resources, and constantly broaden their horizons.

Finally, give back to the times and assume social responsibility. At present, more and more entrepreneurs have devoted themselves to various public welfare undertakings and contributed to social development. As one of them, I founded the Trinity Foundation in 2013 to provide equal educational opportunities for underprivileged students, leading them to broaden their horizons, realize their potential and give back to society. Reserve research and evaluation talents for public welfare undertakings, and promote the scientific and effective development of public welfare; Combined with the advantages of Sany's construction machinery, so that the mechanical power empowers disaster relief and rescue operations, Sany Foundation has never been absent in the Wenchuan earthquake many years ago and the recent earthquake rescue in Turkey.

Content source: "Lookout"