The 2020 China (Tianjin) Industrial App Innovation and Application Competition, sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Tianjin Municipal People’s Government and co-organized by the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, China Industrial Technology and Software Industry Alliance, and the Fifth Electronics Research Institute of the MIIT, will be officially launched on the main forum of the 4th World Intelligence Conference (WIC) on June 23. The Competition represents part of industry efforts to implement the Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Deepening “internet Plus Advanced Manufacturing” to Develop the Industrial Internet, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Implementation Plan for Industrial Internet App Development Project (2018-2020) [GXBXR (2018) No. 79] and boost the development of industrial internet apps.

The Competition is an integral part of the WIC and has been successfully held twice since 2018, with more than 3,000 enterprises and teams registering. It has gathered cutting-edge industrial internet app solutions in various sectors, a group of leading enterprises, and top-notch experts from first-class universities and research institutes across the country. The Competition has been recognized as an important platform for communication and research collaboration between universities and industries in the field of industrial software.

The upcoming 2020 competition will be comprehensively upgraded with wider coverage and greater influence. Revolving around the theme of "Integration, Innovation and Ecology" and industry-specific demands, it will bring together a cohort of industrial app development teams and industrial internet platform providers to present workable and transferable industrial apps that can meet market demands, help with the resumption of work and production, and prompt industrial development. The Competition will also feature several webinars with top-class experts and leading enterprises and will be live streamed on multiple platforms, making it an interaction and communication platform with wider-ranging influence.