In 2017, the competition in China's manufacturing industry was becoming increasingly fierce. The increasing pressure on production costs and the downward trend of the economy have forced the polarization of Chinese manufacturing enterprises to be more serious. From the overall situation, the main part of China manufacturing industry is small and medium-sized enterprises, these enterprises, increase the investment of digital transformation to embrace new technology is the current focus on the development of intelligent production process and product innovation and flexibility, improve production efficiency and product quality, to establish their own brand, to avoid to be eliminated in the fierce competition.

But with the rise of labor, material and production costs, the transformation of SMEs is still facing challenges, and even conflicts with investment in emerging technologies. On the other hand, China government issued a series of policies and strategies for the development of intelligent manufacturing, encourage Chinese manufacturing enterprises and the Internet combined with the "+" concept, innovation and development of manufacturing technology, to promote products and services transformation, enhance the Chinese manufacturing position in the global value chain. These factors are promoting the development of China's manufacturing industry.

IDC the ten major forecasts of manufacturing in 2018 are as follows:

From 1. to 2020, 50% of China's 2000 compulsory manufacturing enterprises will rely on digital platforms to increase their investment in ecosystem and experience and support 30% of their total revenue.

From 2. to 2021, 15% of China's 2000 compulsory manufacturing enterprises will rely on Embedded Intelligent backbone network, and use the Internet of things, block chaining and cognitive technology to achieve large-scale process automation, and shorten the execution time to 25%.

From 3. to 2020, 60% of manufacturing companies will be involved in industry cloud computing, although only 1/4 of these manufacturing companies will be profitable through data.

From 4. to 2020, the combination of operation technology (OT) and information technology will enable more than 30% IT and OT technicians to have direct project experience in these two fields due to the need of the Internet of things.
From 5. to 2020, 35% of manufacturing enterprises will cooperate directly with customers and consumers in new product and improved product design through cloud crowdsourcing, virtual reality and product virtualization, so that the success rate of products will be increased by 25%.

In the past 6.2020 years, from the manufacturing of durable consumer goods and electronic products, augmented reality and mobile devices will promote the transformation of service industry to the part-time job economy. Meanwhile, "experts hire" instead of 10% full-time and on-site service staff.
By the end of 7. to the end of 2020, 25% of the manufacturing supply chain will use analysis driven cognitive ability, which will increase the cost efficiency by 10% and improve service performance by 5%.

From 8. to 2019, 75% of the supply chain interaction will take place in the cloud based business network, which greatly improves the elasticity of participants and reduces the impact of supply interruption by 1/3.

From 9. to 2020, 15% of the specific manufacturing sub industries will achieve balanced production according to the demand rhythm, and get more customized products through intelligent and flexible assets.

From 10. to 2020, 15% of the manufacturers in management data intensive production and supply chain process area will use cloud execution mode based on edge analysis to achieve real-time visibility and enhance operation flexibility.