Chongqing's proposal on building a national leading area for Industrial Internet development is to seize the commanding height of a new round of industrial revolution.

As a product of full integration between a new generation of information technology and manufacturing, the Industrial Internet serves as a major trend of global manufacturing development.

A batch of tens of billions of industrial clusters

With rich deposits and a solid foundation, Chongqing's manufacturing industry has the basic conditions and industrial advantages to develop the Industrial Internet and provide diversified application scenarios.

As a national key modern manufacturing base, Chongqing has formed an industrial system supported by multiple pillars, with electronics, automobile, equipment, chemical, material, consumer goods, and energy industries as the focus.

The city has 39 of China's 41 industrial sectors and serves as the world's largest laptop production base and China's important production base for automobiles, motorcycles, and cell phones.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Chongqing's gross output value of industries above the designated size will exceed three trillion yuan (0.46 trillion U.S. dollars), and a batch of tens of billions of industrial clusters including automobiles, electronics, and equipment will be built.

Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent, is optimistic about the advantages held by Chongqing. Ma said Chongqing's manufacturing industry is trying to put together "traditional manufacturing capabilities" and "emerging digital technologies."

Ma thinks, by virtue of emerging digital technologies, Chongqing has the opportunity to perform first-mover advantages.