On the morning of December 15, the 2022 World Industrial Internet Conference kicked off at Qingdao International Conference Center, marking the eighth dialogue between Qingdao's industrial Internet and the world. Ling Wen, Vice Governor of Shandong Province, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech via video link. Geng Tao, a Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Qingdao Municipal Committee and Deputy Mayor of Qingdao, delivered a welcome speech.

Ling Wen said in his speech, in recent years, Shandong Province actively has planned to promote the development of industrial Internet, and developed four national cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platforms such as COSMOPlat, and four national first digital pilot enterprises such as Inspur. Shandong will actively build a good ecology of industrial Internet to provide a first-class environment for enterprise development.

The opening ceremony formally released the "Industrial Internet Integrated Empowerment Platform", "Qingdao's Implementation Plan (2023-2025) to Accelerate the Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Industry to Build A Smart Manufacturing City", Industrial Internet Platform Operating System, Industrial Internet Ecology White Paper, and the Shandong integrated big data center system, which focused on Qingdao's achievements and practices in the field of the industrial Internet.