Background conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: In the 21st century, mankind is faced with the unprecedented global energy and resource crisis, global ecological and environmental crisis, and global climate change crisis, which has triggered the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the Green Industrial Revolution, a series of production functions that have made a leap from natural factor inputs to green factor inputs, and have spread to the whole society.


The Green Industrial Revolution, a series of production functions characterized by natural factor inputs to green factor inputs, and popularized to the whole society.

This is a new green industrial revolution, the essence and characteristics of which is to substantially increase resource productivity, economic growth and non-renewable resource factors are fully decoupled from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Observing from a historical perspective and using the perspective of industrialization makes us clearly realize that the world's fourth industrial revolution, the green revolution, has already arrived. It is not easy and fortunate for China to catch up with the dawn and launch of this revolution.

Industry 4.0 Alliance

The Qingdao-China-Germany Industry 4.0 Promotion Alliance, which consists of German Industry 4.0 research institutes, Chinese institutes and Chinese and German companies, was established on Feb. 9 in China. The alliance was established on February 9 in Qingdao West Coast New District, China's 11th state-level new economic zone, making it the first "Industry 4.0" alliance in China.

On November 4, 2014, China's first Industry 4.0 assembly line was unveiled at the 16th China International Industry Fair.

"Industry 4.0" is an important way for Chinese enterprises to better improve and develop under the background of the big data revolution, cloud computing and mobile Internet era, and the improvement and upgrading of enterprises by combining intelligence and industrialization. After the establishment of the Sino-German "Industry 4.0" alliance, Qingdao West Coast New District will invest 100 million yuan in some of the enterprises in the region to carry out pilot projects, and in the future will gradually realize the enterprise "Industry 4.0" upgrade.