A staff member demonstrates a 5G remote diagnostic platform at China 5G+ Industrial Internet Conference in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, November 19, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the second batch of key industries and application scenarios of 5G+industrial internet on Saturday.

5G+industrial internet will be applied in the petrochemical industry, building materials, ports, textile and home appliance, the MIIT announced at the 2021 China 5G+Industrial Internet Conference held in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province.

The ten major application scenarios include simulation of production unit, precise operations, management and control of energy efficiency, compliance verification of production processes, traceability of production processes, predictive maintenance of equipment, intelligent cargo sorting, logistics monitoring, virtual reality field service and enterprise collaboration.

Zhao Zhiguo, director of information and communications administration bureau of the MIIT, said the applications of 5G+industrial internet have quickly gone from the margins of manufacturing to the key internal links. Its integration with new technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and blockchain is also deepening.

In May, the MIIT released the first batch of key industries and application scenarios of 5G+industrial internet.

The five key industries were electronic equipment production, equipment manufacturing, steel, mining and the power sector.

The ten application scenarios included collaborative R&D and design, remote equipment control, collaborative equipment operations, flexible production and manufacturing, on-site auxiliary assembly, machine vision quality inspection, equipment fault diagnosis, intelligent logistics in factories, unmanned intelligent inspection and intelligent production monitoring.

5G+industrial internet has become a historic opportunity for traditional industries to achieve development and it's playing an increasingly important role in empowering the real economy, serving the society and benefiting the people, Zhao said.

So far, China has built over 1.15 million 5G base stations, which account for more than 70 percent of the world's total, according to the MIIT.

It's the world's largest and most advanced standalone 5G network, covering all prefecture-level cities, more than 97 percent of counties and 40 percent of towns.