A view of the China Mobile Yangtze River Delta (Jinhua) Data Center's server room in 2025. CHINA DAILY

Cross-industry renaissance

Beyond the energy sector, China Mobile's digital empowerment is catalyzing upgrades across diverse traditional industries.

In the textile industry, Zhejiang Truelove Blanket Technology Co, known globally as the "World Blanket King", has partnered with China Mobile to build the first cloud-based 5G textile intelligent inspection factory. Utilizing 5G's low latency and high reliability, the system monitors the operational status of 8,000 yarns in real time. If a yarn breaks or skips, the system instantly identifies it and halts the machine. Now, a single female worker can oversee 12 machines simultaneously. Defect lengths have been reduced by 90 percent, saving the company nearly 3 million yuan in annual labor costs.

Similarly, Zhejiang SAFUN Industrial Co, a national manufacturing single-champion enterprise, has utilized an AI research and development design agent to overhaul its development process. By leveraging intelligent parsing, virtual simulation and knowledge reuse, the company has slashed its research and development cycle from two months to just five days, which is expected to boost overseas orders by 30 percent annually.

In the traditional Chinese medicine sector, Zhejiang Shouxiangu Pharmaceutical Co has built the country's first "50G PON + Wi-Fi 7" 10-gigabit pharmaceutical park. The company is now taking its AI integration a step further with its "AI Ancient Formula" project. By utilizing a dual-model strategy of "Tongyi Qianwen + DeepSeek", the system digitizes ancient texts like Danxi Xinfa to automatically generate prescription plans. To support this, their computing resources are expanding from dual A100 GPUs to an 8-card A100 setup. Soon, an AI Q&A agent will allow managers to ask conversational questions like, "What was the wall-breaking qualification rate of lingzhi (ganoderma lucidum) spore powder in Workshop A last week?" and receive instant, data-driven answers.

Even the cultural sector is experiencing a digital renaissance. In Hengdian World Studios — known as China's Hollywood — the newly established Film and Television Cultural Industry Brain has accumulated over 3.9 billion pieces of structured data.

Lai Enhui, AIGC head at Zhejiang Gewu Zhizhi Culture Media, pointed out the drastic changes in production speed. "A 120-minute AI short drama can now be completed in about two weeks. Our team can produce around 10 such dramas a month," Lai said. Utilizing China Mobile's MoMA cloud model services, studios can render complex visual effects securely in days rather than months, while also pioneering new formats like AI comic dramas.

To ensure these technological leaps are not isolated success stories, China Mobile is actively working to replicate these models across the manufacturing spectrum.

Ni Jun, deputy manager of the government and enterprise department at China Mobile Jinhua Branch, outlined their strategic roadmap. "We are currently focusing on three major local industries: power tools, textiles and magnetic materials. Our approach is to first build a benchmark enterprise to extract standardized digital solutions," Ni said.

"We rely on our strong grid-based operational capabilities. In Jinhua, we have 74 grids covering all towns and streets. Our grid managers can visit factories door-to-door to discuss digital transformation plans. We diagnose each enterprise's current digital maturity and provide tailored AI scenarios — filling in exactly what they lack — to drive industrywide cost reduction and intelligent transformation," he said.

renqi@chinadaily.com.cn