Since the start of this year, Heilongjiang Province has been vigorously promoting intelligent upgrades, digital transformation, and networked connectivity across its industrial enterprises, achieving notable results as new industrialization and new quality productive forces advance in tandem.

The province has focused on driving intelligent transformation by establishing a tiered cultivation framework for smart factories, ranging from foundational and advanced levels to excellence and leading tiers. In the first half of this year, the province newly recognized 42 foundational-level smart factories, bringing the cumulative total to 408, and added 15 advanced-level smart factories, reaching a cumulative count of 46—surpassing the annual target of adding more than 50 foundational and advanced smart factories ahead of schedule.

Digital transformation among industrial firms has also progressed steadily. During the January-to-June period, 401 additional enterprises reached level-one or above in digital transformation maturity, lifting the cumulative figure to 2,450—a 14.3-percentage-point improvement from the start of the year, now standing at 67.2%. Meanwhile, 50 provincial-level benchmark enterprises for SME digital transformation were newly designated, bringing the total to 247.

Networked connectivity has delivered equally impressive outcomes. Harbin Turbine, Jianlong Xigang, and Longmei Chengshan Coal Mine were selected among the nation's 100 typical 5G factory cases, ranking eighth nationally and first across the three northeastern provinces and Inner Mongolia. In the first half of this year, 15 provincial enterprises and institutions earned recognition from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology as exemplary demonstrations of smart manufacturing, digital transformation, and networked connectivity, with projects involving HIT Research, Budweiser Brewing, Hengfeng Paper, and Daqing Oilfield being named national benchmarks.

With proactive policy support, targeted capital allocation, and robust computing infrastructure backing, Heilongjiang has built a comprehensive and all-encompassing service platform for supply-demand matching in digital transformation, fostering a complete and sustainable industrial service ecosystem.