…by cross-serving military and civilian industrial needs, (the Military-Civil Fusion Industrial Internet Service Platform) explores new paths for the fused development of military combat power and local economic construction, carrying far-reaching significance for leading the coordinated development of a strong military and a prosperous nation.
…推进军技民用、民技军用，交叉服务军事及民用工业需求，对探索军队战斗力和地方经济建设融合发展新路径，引领强军和兴国的协同发展具有重大而深远的意义。

Li Wujie (李悟杰), Wang Jiannan (王剑男), and Hong Binxiang (洪斌祥),”Construction and Consideration of the Military-Civil Fusion Industrial Internet Service Platform” (军民融合工业互联网服务平台建设与思考), New Generation of Information Technology (新一代信息技术), June 2023

This 2023 academic paper is important because it makes explicit what many official Industrial Internet documents leave implicit: the Industrial Internet can be used as a platform mechanism for advancing Military-Civil Fusion.

The article, “Construction and Consideration of the Military-Civil Fusion Industrial Internet Service Platform,” was published in New Generation of Information Technology in June 2023. Its authors include Wang Jiannan of the China Academy of the Industrial Internet and Beijing Gonglian Technology Company, along with Li Wujie and Hong Binxiang of Beijing Gonglian Technology Company. Beijing Gonglian Technology Company is directly subordinate to the China Academy of the Industrial Internet, which is itself directly subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

The paper argues for building a Military-Civil Fusion Industrial Internet Service Platform focused on major needs in the Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) domain. The proposed platform would support common key technology research, application-system development, supply-demand matching, market expansion, and the transfer of technologies in both directions: military-to-civilian and civilian-to-military. Most importantly, it frames the platform as a mechanism for “cross-serving military and civilian industrial needs” and exploring new paths for the fused development of military combat power and local economic construction.

This is important because the paper connects three themes that are often discussed separately: Military-Civil Fusion, weapons-equipment modernization, and the Industrial Internet. The authors argue that China needs to use Industrial Internet methods to connect and fuse weapons-equipment design, process engineering, manufacturing, inspection, and maintenance. They identify a major gap: China has not yet formed a unified fused platform for supply-demand docking, collaborative design, and production manufacturing.

The requirements analysis is equally revealing. The paper describes China’s weapons-equipment life-cycle management as fragmented across requirement release, demonstration, design, manufacturing, procurement, operation, and maintenance. Data is difficult to interoperate, making full life-cycle management and rapid iterative upgrading difficult. It also describes the broader MCF market problem: military units, defense industrial groups, local governments, and private enterprises remain trapped in their own closed systems.

The proposed solution is an Industrial Internet-based MCF service platform. Built around the Industrial Internet’s standard logic of connecting “All Factors of Production, All Industrial Chains, and All Value Chains” (全要素、全产业链、全价值链), the platform would support full life-cycle weapons-equipment management, supply-demand docking, collaborative design, production manufacturing, operation and maintenance, and the rapid organization of distributed manufacturing resources into a joint production system.

This paper is not an official policy document. It should not be read as proof that such a platform has already been built. But it is useful evidence of how Chinese researchers connected Military-Civil Fusion with the Industrial Internet in 2023. It helps explain why the Industrial Internet is important for understanding the future of Military-Civil Fusion: not merely as another manufacturing technology, but as a possible platform architecture for organizing military and civilian industrial resources across entire strategic industrial chains.

A lightly edited Google Translate machine translation of the abstract, introduction, requirements analysis, and scope of implementation from the “Construction and Consideration of the Military-Civil Fusion Industrial Internet Service Platform” follows below.

Construction and Consideration of the Military-Civil Fusion Industrial Internet Service Platform
军民融合工业互联网服务平台建设与思考

Authors: Li Wujie (李悟杰), Beijing Gonglian Technology Company (北京工联科技有限公司); Wang Jiannan (王剑男), China Academy of the Industrial Internet (中国工业互联网研究院) and Beijing Gonglian Technology Company; and Hong Binxiang (洪斌祥), Beijing Gonglian Technology Company

Note: The Beijing Gonglian Technology Company is directly subordinate to the China Academy of the Industrial Internet. The China Academy of the Industrial Internet is directly subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Source: New Generation of Information Technology (新一代信息技术), Vol. 6, No. 11, Jun. 2023

Publication Date: June 2023

Abstract 摘要

The Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) Industrial Internet Service Platform focuses on major demands in the MCF domain, undertaking in-depth research on common key technologies, application system development, and market expansion. It promotes the close integration of frontier military technologies with key equipment applications and advances the ‘military-to-civil’ and ‘civil-to-military’ transfer of technologies. By cross-serving military and civilian industrial needs, it explores new paths for the fused development of military combat power and local economic construction, carrying far-reaching significance for leading the coordinated development of a strong military and a prosperous nation.

军民融合工业互联网服务平台聚焦军民融合领域重大需求，深入开展军民融合工业互联网共性关键技术研究、应用系统开发和市场开拓工作，促进军事装备前沿技术与装备关键应用密切结合，推进军技民用、民技军用，交叉服务军事及民用工业需求，对探索军队战斗力和地方经济建设融合发展新路径，引领强军和兴国的协同发展具有重大而深远的意义。

1. Introduction 引言

Note: The original introduction is a single paragraph. It is broken into four sections here for easier reading.

Since the 19th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has proposed elevating the Military-Civil Fusion Development Strategy to a national strategy, providing a historic opportunity and putting forward a higher strategic requirement for the deep development of Military-Civil Fusion. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee deliberated and adopted the Recommendations of the Central Committee on Formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and Long-Range Objectives Through 2035,which posits the need to accelerate the modernization of weapons and equipment, concentrate efforts on independent and original innovation in national defense science and technology, accelerate the development of strategic, frontier, and disruptive technologies, and accelerate the upgrading of weapons and the development of intelligentized weapons and equipment.

自十九大以来，习近平总书记提出把军民融合发展战略上升到国家战略，为军民融合深度发展提供了历史性机遇，也提出了更高战略要求。十九届五中全会审议通过《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十四个五年规划和二○三五年远景目标的建议》，其中认为要加快武器装备现代化，聚力国防科技自主创新、原始创新，加速战略性前沿性颠覆性技术发展，加速武器装备升级换代和智能化武器装备发展。

It is necessary to realize the docking of military procurement by defense enterprises with advanced technologies and products from private enterprises through Military-Civil Fusion, and to utilize Industrial Internet methods to highly integrate, coordinate, and fuse the processes of weapon and equipment design, process engineering, manufacturing, inspection, and maintenance, thereby achieving the unified design and manufacturing of weapons and equipment. Currently, while many domestic scholars have conducted extensive technical research, a unified, fused platform for supply-demand docking, collaborative design, and production manufacturing has not yet been formed.

需通过军民融合的手段实现军方企业采购与民营企业先进技术和产品的对接，利用工业互联网的方式将武器装备设计、工艺、制造、检验和维护过程高度集成、协同和融合，实现武器装备设计制造一体化。目前，国内很多学者做了很多技术研究，但未形成供需对接、协同设计和生产制造一体化融合的平台。

Li Chao et al., based on Model Based Definition (MBD) technology, proposed an implementation approach for unified design and manufacturing suitable for defense enterprises, providing a useful reference for the rapid development of weapons and equipment. Lai Yin et al. constructed a Military-Civil Fusion Ecosystem—characterized by government platform-building, security and controllability, demand traction, supply innovation, dynamic balance, and multi-party benefit—to strengthen the interconnection, interoperability, and collaborative innovation among defense industry enterprises, private firms, government, and other institutional parties, achieving the goals of serving national defense, promoting economic growth, and serving society. Zhang Chaofan et al. constructed an evaluation index system for Military-Civil Fusion Information Services, aiming to break down information barriers and strengthen the sharing of Military-Civil Fusion resources. Li Jiaying et al. explored the application of the Internet of Things (IoT) in fields such as smart oceans, smart factories, and smart transportation, focusing on building a Military-Civil Fusion IoT Technology Application Service Platform to promote the development of the Military-Civil Fusion IoT industry.

李超等基于模型定义（MBD）技术提出了适合军工企业的设计制造一体化应用实现途径，为武器装备的快速研制提供有益参考。来音等构建了政府搭台、安全可控、需求牵引、供给创新、动态平衡、各方受益的军民融合生态体系，加强军工企业、民企、政府等各方机构的互融互通，协同创新，实现服务国防、促进经济增长、服务社会的目标。张朝凡等构建了一个军民融合信息服务的评价指标体系，旨在打破军民融合信息壁垒，加强军民融合资源共享。李嘉颖等探讨物联网在智慧海洋、智慧工厂和智慧交通等领域的应用实践，着力打造具有军民融合物联网技术应用服务平台，促进军民融合物联网产业发展。

Centering on weapons and equipment manufacturing needs, this article streamlines and optimizes the industrial and value chains; integrates decentralized hardware and software resources for military equipment smart manufacturing and logistics services; and promotes the normalized docking of military and civilian resources. Through rapid and precise supply-demand matching and the unification of collaborative design and manufacturing, this work aims to create an Industrial Internet-based Military-Civil Fusion Service Platform for the full life-cycle management of weapons and equipment projects.

本文为围绕武器装备制造需求，梳理并优化产业链、价值链，整合分散的军装智能制造、后勤服务等软硬件资源，促进军民资源的常态化对接，通过供需双方快速精准匹配，武器装备协同设计制造一体化，打造基于工业互联网的武器装备项目全生命周期管理的军民融合服务平台。

2. Analysis of Requirements 需求分析

2.1 Analysis of Military Requirements 军事需求分析

Using data to enhance combat advantages requires building unified management capabilities for the demonstration, design, R&D, manufacturing, procurement, and operation and maintenance of weapons and equipment. In our country, the various stages—including requirement release, demonstration, design, manufacturing, procurement, and operation and maintenance—are isolated from one another; data is difficult to interoperate, making it impossible to truly realize effective full life-cycle management of weapons and equipment. Furthermore, it prevents a comprehensive and detailed grasp of user experience and the effectiveness of weapons and equipment in use, thereby impacting the efficiency of iterative upgrades.”

使用数据提升作战优势，需要建设武器装备论证、设计、研发、制造、采购和运维的一体化管理能力。我国武器装备的需求发布、论证、设计、制造、采购和运维等各环节相互孤立，数据难以互通，无法真正实现武器装备全生命周期的有效管理，无法全面细致掌握用户使用武器装备的体验和效果，影响迭代升级效率。

2.2 Analysis of Market Requirements 市场需求分析

Accelerating the formation of a pattern for the in-depth development of Military-Civil Fusion requires breaking the situation where the four major entities—military units, defense industrial groups, local governments, and private enterprises—operate within their own closed systems. Private enterprises have long served non-military customers; in the process of participating in the supply of military products and technologies, it is also difficult for them to understand military requirements in a single step. Meanwhile, military technologies are difficult to truly transform into civilian technologies because the boundaries of secrecy are not sufficiently clear. The external procurement matching rate of the twelve major defense industrial groups is only 13%, and the transformation rate of national defense scientific research achievements is only around 15%—levels far below the approximately 60% seen in Western developed countries.1

加快形成军民融合深度发展格局，需要打破部队、军工集团、地方政府、民营企业四类主体自成体系的局面。民企长期面对非军客户，在参与供应军方产品和技术的过程中，也很难一步到位理解军方需求。而军方技术也因保密性边界不够明确，难以真正转成民用技术。十二个军工集团外部的配套率只有13%，国防科研成果的转化率只有15%左右，远低于西方发达国家的60%左右的水平。

3. Scope of Implementation 建设内容

The Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) Industrial Internet Service Platform constructs a Military-Civil Fusion Supply-Demand Docking System, making the release of military requirements more convenient, concise, and timely, and making the display of military-industrial products more intuitive, three-dimensional, and multi-faceted, truly opening up ‘military-to-civilian’ channels and pragmatically advancing ‘civilian-to-military’ work.

Based on the Industrial Internet’s concept of comprehensive connection across All Factors, All Industrial Chains, and All Value Chains,2 the platform constructs an integrated full life-cycle equipment development process and model encompassing equipment requirement analysis, scheme design, simulation and verification, production and manufacturing, and operation and maintenance support. Relying on a full-process tracking system for equipment orders, the platform breaks through the spatial and geographical constraints on the scope and methods of equipment manufacturing, rapidly organizing manufacturing resources distributed across different geographical locations into a joint production system both within and outside the enterprise.3 This enables real-time mastery of equipment manufacturing progress, providing support for the rapid production and response of military-industrial products.

军民融合工业互联网服务平台构建军民融合供需对接系统，使军事需求发布更方便、更简洁、更及时，军工产品展示更直观、更立体、更多面，真正打通“军转民”渠道、务实推进“民参军”工作。平台基于工业互联网的全要素、全产业链、全价值链的全面连接的理念，构建装备需求分析、方案设计、仿真验证、生产制造、运维保障为一体的全生命周期装备研制流程与模式，依托装备订单全流程追踪体系，以突破空间地域对装备制造范围和方式的约束，把分布在不同地理位置的制造资源迅速地组成一个企业内外联合的生产体系，实时掌握装备制造进度情况，为军工产品的快速生产和响应提供支撑。

Footnotes

  1. In the West, we call this “supply chain depth” or “outsourcing ratio.” In China’s defense sector, it indicates how much of a final weapon system is built by entities outside the core 12 state-owned defense groups. At 13%, the system is almost entirely “in-house,” which is exactly the bottleneck the Industrial Internet is designed to break. ↩︎
  2. “All Factors of Production, All Industrial Chains, and All Value Chains” (全要素、全产业链、全价值链) is the standard tifa used to describe the total systemic integration that the Industrial Internet is expected to provide to drive new industrialization and digitalized transformation. By enabling the comprehensive interconnection of people, machines, and objects, the Industrial Internet will serve as a “digital nervous system” for the entire industry. ↩︎
  3. The phrase “Joint Production System” (联合生产体系) suggests that the distinction between “this company” and “that company” is being subordinated to a broader national system architecture. In this model, the platform begins to function like an operating layer through which distributed factories, both state-owned and private, can be organized as needed. ↩︎