Industrial cybersecurity a 'high priority'

China will speed up the implementation of a three-year plan to boost industrial cybersecurity, as the convergence of cutting-edge information technology and industry gathers momentum in the nation.

Chen Yin, chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's top industry regulator, said on Thursday that ensuring cybersecurity should be a high priority as companies are scrambling to promote the development of the industrial internet.

"We will expedite steps to build a nationwide network to track possible attacks on industrial networks, and more efforts will be made to construct an emergency resource pool and an information sharing platform," Chen said at the China Industrial Cyber Security Congress 2018 in Beijing.