IT Home reported on October 19 that the Ministry of Commerce and 8 other departments, 9 in total, today issued an opinion on accelerating the promotion of commerce through science and technology, requiring that scientific and technological innovation serve as the driving force, that meeting the people's growing needs for a better life be the starting point and goal, and that improvements in commodity consumption quality, expansion of service consumption, enhancement of circulation efficiency, and scenario integration innovation be advanced in a coordinated manner,raising the application level of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, blockchain, digital twin, and embodied intelligenceand promoting the intelligent, green, and integrated development of the entire commerce chain to provide strong support for building a strong domestic market.
IT Home attaches the specific content of the opinion below:
Science and technology empowering quality improvement of commodity consumption
(1) Promoting iterative upgrading of commodity supply. Deeply implement the special 'artificial intelligence + manufacturing' action, and accelerate the deep integration of artificial intelligence technology with product R&D, design, manufacturing, and marketing,enriching the supply of smart commodities such as smartphones, computers, home appliances, wearables, and robots, and encouraging the R&D and application of smart products based on secure and reliable open-source operating systems. Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of historical classic industries, and develop classic famous and premium products. Build a lineup of Chinese consumer famous brands, and unearth consumer famous brands with independent innovation and high quality. Vigorously develop technology-driven agriculture, and promote quality and efficiency improvements in high-quality characteristic agricultural products. Promote the innovative development of time-honored brands while upholding their traditions, and support time-honored brand enterprises in using modern production technology for product innovation.
(2) Promoting supply-demand matching of commodity consumption. Develop flexible manufacturing, and encourage enterprises to use industrial large models, edge intelligence, and other technologies to build adaptive flexible production systems, and promote new models such as on-demand production and Customer-to-Manufacturer (C2M).Vigorously develop AI-based personalized customization, and cultivate a batch of customization brands with industry influenceto meet personalized consumption needs.
(3) Stimulating the vitality of the commodity consumption market. Relying on exhibitions such as the China International Consumer Products Expo, the China International Fair for Trade in Services, and the China International Agricultural Trade Fair, build platforms for displaying, exchanging, and trading scientific and technological achievements. Cultivate segmented consumption hotspots, create consumption scenarios for new technology products, and release consumption potential in niche fields. Promote the extension of smart consumption facilities and services to counties, improve county-level smart product service networks, and stimulate the vitality of lower-tier markets.
Science and technology driving the expansion of service consumption
(4) Improving the service level of basic-needs categories. Innovate housekeeping service models, support cooperation between housekeeping enterprises and technology enterprises, and build intelligent housekeeping service platforms.Accelerate the digital transformation of catering, and release a batch of typical cases of catering digitalization. Support eligible localities in exploring inclusive applications of artificial intelligence technology in scenarios such as health management, pharmaceutical services, and rehabilitation care, and expand the supply of high-quality medical and health services. Improve the quality of elderly care and childcare services, encourage eligible regions to build smart elderly care service institutions, and accelerate the development of new business forms of smart elderly care and childcare.
(5) Expanding the supply of upgraded services. Upgrade the national smart education platform, open high-quality educational resources to society, and enrich education service scenarios.Carry out 'artificial intelligence + culture and tourism' application pilots, promote the integrated application of artificial intelligence with extended reality and other technologies, develop distinctive cultural tourism products and intelligent services, and enhance the supply of cultural and tourism service consumption. Advance the 'data elements × sports' action, and develop new sports consumption models such as immersive and interactive event viewing.Accelerate the promotion and popularization of convenient TV terminals such as integrated televisions and plug-in micro set-top boxesand promote the expansion and quality improvement of audio-visual electronic consumption.
(6) Optimizing personalized service quality. Adhere to technology for good,and cultivate healthy and well-regulated new business forms of intelligent services such as robot and virtual digital human companionship. Support the R&D and industrialization of ultra-high-definition audio-visual technology, and promote the application of immersive audio-visual in multiple fields including commercial districts, cultural entertainment, tourism, and education and training. Using artificial intelligence, digital twin, and other technologies, optimize IP R&D and design in fields such as culture, tourism, sports, China-chic, and historical classic industries, and promote cross-sector integration.
Science and technology smoothing the commerce and circulation chain
(VII) Enhancing supply chain integration efficiency. Implement special actions to accelerate the development of digital and intelligent supply chains, and deepen coordinated innovation in technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and blockchain.Promote intelligent automated warehouses, intelligent logistics equipment, unmanned delivery, and other facilities and equipmentto advance the intelligent integration of warehousing, distribution, and transportation. Develop green supply chains, promoting green technologies, green procurement, green products, and green packaging. Cultivate a group of leading enterprises in digital and intelligent supply chains to empower small and medium-sized enterprises along the chain.
(VIII) Promoting the digital and intelligent upgrading of wholesale and retail. Deepen the coordination between the wholesale industry and industrial digitalization, and promote the integrated online-offline development of wholesale enterprises. Accelerate the digital and intelligent transformation of agricultural product wholesale markets and improve the efficiency of agricultural product collection, distribution, and circulation. Implement the retail industry innovation and upgrading project. Encourage enterprises to apply digital technologies to optimize store layout, purchase-sale-inventory management, logistics and distribution, anti-counterfeiting traceability, after-sales management, and other links.
(IX) Building a quality-oriented e-commerce ecosystem. Carry out actions to cultivate quality e-commerce, promote the "authenticate first, ship later" model, and improve platforms' whole-chain quality management. Strengthen quality standards, inspection, and brand building for online-sold goods in key sectors such as home appliances, home decoration and furnishing, and electronic products. Strengthen online verification of Compulsory Product Certification (CCC certification) on e-commerce platforms.Advance pilot reforms of CCC certification marks for products in key sectors, applying CCC traceability QR codes。
Technology shapes future business scenarios
(X) Creating intelligent scenarios. Cultivate new business forms of commercial intelligent agents, developing professional agents such as intelligent shopping guides, intelligent operations, and intelligent logistics. Promote the implementation of embodied intelligence technologies in the commerce and trade sector, expanding application scenarios such as household services and commerce and trade logistics. Develop intelligent consumption scenarios such as cloud shopping and cloud exhibitions, and support the application of technologies such as digital twins in consumption scenarios.
(XI) Expanding green scenarios. Develop new green and low-carbon business models, support enterprises in using blockchain technology to conduct product carbon footprint accounting, and create low-carbon product consumption scenarios. Promote the application of advanced biofuels, bio-based new materials, and biodegradable plastics, cultivate benchmark entities such as green shopping malls, green restaurants, and green logistics parks, and advance green consumption. Promote the intelligent upgrading of second-hand goods circulation and renewable resource recycling, and build a green circular business ecosystem.
(XII) Cultivating integrated scenarios. Relying on pilots of new consumption business forms, models, and scenarios, promote the integrated application of technologies such as virtual reality and digital twins in culture and entertainment, tourism, health, sports, and other fields, creating a number of new consumption scenarios integrating business, tourism, culture, sports, and health. Guide localities to focus on key venues such as pedestrian streets, business districts, and tourist attractions to build a number of consumption scenarios integrating the digital and the physical, continuously enriching diverse applications of new technologies.
Optimizing the environment for business technology development
(XIII) Improving the business technology standard system.Promote the implementation of the series of national standards "Artificial Intelligence Terminal Intelligence Grading" and accelerate the construction of a unified standard system covering various terminal forms. Implement the standards upgrading action in the commerce sector. Carry out national standardization pilots in the commerce and trade field, exploring effective ways to support innovative development of commerce and trade through standardization.
(XIV) Consolidating the foundation of digital and intelligent infrastructure. Promote the upgrading and renovation of commercial infrastructure, and accelerate the application of industrial internet and cloud computing platforms in the commerce and trade field. Deeply implement the artificial intelligence small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurship support program, promoting inclusive computing power to empower AI start-ups in the commerce and trade field. Establish a number of high-quality datasets and trusted data spaces in the commerce and trade field, promoting the integrated application and value release of commercial data and public data.
(XV) Improving the safety supervision and governance system. According to different application scenarios,prudently and steadily carry out tiered governance of commercial intelligent agents. Clarify the boundaries and norms for the collection, use, and sharing of commercial data, explore the publication of negative lists for data application, establish a data security risk monitoring and early warning system, and enhance safety protection and governance capabilities. Implement inclusive and prudent regulation, allowing new technologies and new models to conduct stress testing and sandbox pilots within a controllable scope, and improve the level of refined regulation.
Strengthening support and guarantees
(XVI) Strengthening technology R&D and transformation and application.Accelerate the R&D of key technologies in fields such as new display and intelligent terminals, expand typical application scenarios and viable business models, and strengthen demonstration and promotion. Cultivate and build commercial technology application innovation centers. Focus on the consumer goods field to cultivate a number of technology transfer and transformation institutions,accelerating the market transformation of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements such as brain-computer interfaces and embodied intelligence. Support commerce and trade enterprises in fields such as intelligent warehousing and digital and intelligent supply chains in applying for specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative (SRDI) enterprise status.
(XVII) Strengthening talent cultivation in the commerce and trade field. Increase efforts to cultivate interdisciplinary talents in business technology, support regular universities, research institutes, and vocational schools in jointly building training bases and practical training platforms with commerce and trade enterprises, support regions with the means to establish city-level industry-education consortia oriented to the commerce and trade field, encourage leading enterprises to take the lead in forming industry-education integration communities for commerce and trade-related industries, and promote work-study integrated training, order-based customized training, and direct job placement training. Promote the establishment of related new occupations (job types) such as logistics robot application technology and intelligent systems management.
(XVIII) Increasing fiscal and financial support. Coordinate the use of existing funding channels to promote the popularization and application of emerging technologies in the consumption field. Encourage financial institutions, in accordance with market-oriented and law-based principles, to increase financial support for new consumption scenarios and provide diversified financial products and services. Guide financial institutions to increase financial support for technological transformation and equipment renewal in the consumption and commercial facilities field, improving service quality and efficiency.