Nine years ago, the "perception of China" center came to wuxi. Nine years later, an Internet of things industry with a size of more than 200 billion yuan rose in wuxi. In 9 years, in the development sequence of the world Internet industry, there is the "taihu lake mark" of wuxi, China.


Wuxi, the new rich of the city's trillion-yuan GDP club, why did you choose the Internet of things as an important track for urban economic development?


In February this year, wuxi delivered a high score of answers for urban economic development in 2017. According to the 2017 statistical communique on wuxi's national economic and social development released by the wuxi municipal government, the GDP of the whole city in 2017 exceeded one trillion yuan, reaching 105,118 billion yuan. Per capita GDP exceeded 160,000 yuan, reaching 160,700 yuan, ranking the third among the 14 trillion cities in China.


Gao yaguang, deputy mayor of wuxi, said that the arrival of "perceived China" in wuxi has not only verified the new economic road represented by the Internet of things in wuxi, but also verified the development of wuxi power. On the other hand, in a city with a GDP of over one trillion yuan, wuxi is not dominant in basic natural resources. In the future, it must focus on the green and economical industrial development model.


She said that over the past nine years, focusing on the goal of building the leading technology innovation demonstration area, industrial development gathering area and application demonstration area of the Internet of things in China, wuxi has accumulated domestic and foreign resources and created a new industrial track for regional economic development.


According to the data from wuxi economic and information technology commission, at present, there are more than 1,400 Internet of things enterprises in wuxi, forming a complete industrial chain ecosystem covering sensing chips, network communication and key applications. The annual revenue of the Internet of things exceeds 200 billion yuan. Among them, there are 54 listed companies in neeq, and the "wuxi Internet of things" sector has initially formed in the capital market.


Gao yaguang said that in addition to guiding the industrial development, wuxi has also put the Internet of things application on the ground and fully established the application test scene platform.


On May 3, led by China mobile and other units, China's first city-level lte-v2x Internet application was launched in wuxi national intelligent transportation comprehensive test base, attracting a number of enterprises including audi China, China faw, ford, chang 'an automobile, Volvo and zhongtai automobile to participate. In the next step, the commercial launch of 13 main application scenarios will be completed, including traffic light information push, traffic light speed guide and real-time traffic congestion warning of the road ahead.


In addition, gao yaguang stressed that wuxi has also built an international platform for urban economic development and exchange around the Internet of things through the continuous 8 sessions of the expo and the corresponding exhibitions.


According to the organizing committee of the expo, the 2018 event will be held in wuxi taihu international expo center from September 15 to 18, which will further accelerate the gathering of talents, capital and technology in the global Internet of things.