Alliances to aid progress in industrial internet

China will deepen international cooperation and put new emphasis on addressing technical shortcomings when fueling the development of the industrial internet, a frontier essential to the country's high-end manufacturing powerhouse, the top industry regulator said on Thursday.

Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology, said countries around the world are all trying to establish a beachhead in the industrial internet, a crucial approach to boost the marriage between cutting-edge digital technologies and the manufacturing sector.

"We are facing a string of challenges, including technical bottlenecks, in the process, and no companies or countries can solve the problems alone," Miao said.