Dong Mingzhu said, don't think that the Internet is better than manufacturing. What should be the relationship between the Internet and the manufacturing industry?

At the 20021annual meeting of Boao Forum for Asia, Dong Mingzhu's remarks that the Internet should not be regarded as better than the manufacturing industry attracted considerable attention. In my opinion, there should be a complementary relationship between the Internet and the manufacturing industry, because the manufacturing industry can produce the hardware necessary for the development of the Internet, and with the development of the Internet, related technologies can also be fed back to the manufacturing industry to help it develop.

First, the manufacturing industry can produce the hardware necessary for the development of the Internet.

Although the Internet industry belongs to the digital field, it cannot develop without the support of manufacturing industry. Because the hardware needed for the development of the Internet industry needs to be manufactured by the manufacturing industry. Such as computers, mobile phones and other equipment and facilities. For any Internet technology, if there is no supporting hardware facilities to support its operation, then this technology is actually meaningless. Take 5G as an example. Even if the 5G technology is developed, people can't receive 5G signals on their mobile phones, let alone take out 5G without 5G receivers and transmitters. It can be seen that the Internet is actually inseparable from manufacturing.

Second, Internet technology can feed back the manufacturing industry.

For the manufacturing industry, after the development of internet technology, it can feed back the manufacturing industry and help the manufacturing industry develop. For example, now more and more factories use robotic arms instead of manual labor to carry out related production operations, and to achieve this function, it is inseparable from programs and Internet technology, otherwise the products manufactured will have many defects, even far less than those manufactured by manual labor. Moreover, with the development of the Internet, the selling points of smart devices are increasing, which is valued by more and more consumers, which actually promotes the development and innovation of manufacturing industry to a certain extent.

It can be seen that the manufacturing industry and the Internet complement each other, and it can be said that they need to make progress together through development.