By Yin Jianhua
On June 6, on the first day of the work and production resumption of Zhijing Technology at the North Bund, Senior Vice President Chen Zhonghao received the "Gift Pack for Work and Production Resumption" from Shanghai Industrial Internet Association, which is also located at the North Bund.
He said that during the pandemic, with the concern of Hongkou District and the Association, the company's "Flying Shuttle Smart Textile Platform" continued to provide digital technology services for more than 9,000 textile enterprises throughout the country. The Association further promoted enterprises to return to work and production as soon as possible, and better assisted Chinese textile enterprises to improve quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency through live broadcasting, docking demand, issuing restoration gift packs and other measures.
Integrate Policies to Help Enterprises Return to Work
It is reported that after the resumption of work in June, the Association collected and sorted out work resumption policies at the municipal and district levels, integrated them into "gift packs for enterprises’ work and production resumption" and sent it to member units to help enterprises resume production and operation as soon as possible.
Wang Xuqin, the Secretary General of the Association, introduced that since March 17, the Association has further played the role of a bridge and link by successively carrying out online exchanges with 78 enterprise heads, including Sanqiang Group, Laiyifen Food, China Nuclear No. 5 Corporation, Aerospace Equipment Manufacturing Plant, Schneider Electric, etc., to understand the difficulties and needs of enterprises, as well as the support needed for development this year. It has formed a special report to actively reflect it to relevant government departments.
The staff found that enterprises with better digital construction were relatively less affected by the pandemic and could better fight against uncertainty, which further strengthened the determination and confidence of the Association to promote digital transformation.
In view of the practical difficulties such as the urgent need for enterprises to return to work and financial support, the Association, on the basis of understanding the members during the pandemic period, cooperated with the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, recommended 119 products for the digital products and solutions for Shanghai's work and production resumption, and recommended 48 Enterprises in urgent need of return to work for the white list of returning to work and production. The Association also sorted out the capital policies of financial institutions and collected 31 financial products from 6 financial institutions, to provided point-to-point support for enterprises in need of capital rescue.
Link Enterprises to Maximize Social Value
During the lockdown, the Association changed the way of convening the offline industrial digital supply and demand docking conference originally planned to be held in April to the "Gongfu Planet" digital enabling system. A total of 50 service providers have responded to the 17 digital transformation needs of 6 industrial enterprises, and the demander has also communicated with the service providers after accurate matching on the "Gongfu Planet".
During the pandemic period, Wanxiang Blockchain, a member enterprise participating in the docking, actively played its value in community pandemic prevention and supply guarantee, resumption of work and production, supply chain financial services and other fields. Du Yu, Deputy General Manager, said he hoped to rely on digital technologies such as blockchain to link industry and finance, so as to make a contribution to the resumption of work and production and to promoting the digital transformation of Shanghai in the post pandemic era.
Recently, in order to fully support the work related to the resumption of work and production, and meet the development demands of enterprises, the Association has also jointly launched the "industrial Internet spring action 2022" with more than 10 member units. Up to now, 11 online sharing sessions have been held, and more than 20 enterprise representatives have commented on the "cloud", with a total of more than 100,000 online participants. This activity outputs a total of 13 real transformation cases, which can be used as a reference for the digital transformation of enterprises.
Continuously Carrying out Supply and Demand Docking
Wang Xuqin said that in the next stage, with the continuous progress of the resumption of work and production of most enterprises, the Association will continue to collect the real difficulties, problems, demands and suggestions of enterprises and give feedback to relevant government departments in a timely manner.
The Association will continue to carry out supply and demand docking, do a good job in the construction of Gongfu Planet digital enabling system, and hold a supply and demand docking conference. At the same time, it will make good use of the resources of relevant associations in brother provinces, take the lead in helping science and technology enterprises expand the market and connect with enterprises in other provinces and cities. It will also implement the national digital transformation policy and accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises.
The Association will unite the strength of nearly 20 financial institutions and parks among its member units to carry out publicity activities on the policy of returning to work and production, promotion activities of financial products, roadshows for scientific and technological enterprises and legal assistance, so as to further help enterprises solve their financial difficulties.