INRTU delegation visited the BRICS PartNIR Innovation Center on New Industrial Revolution
INRTU delegation led by Mikhail Korniakov visited the BRICS PartNIR Innovation Center on New Industrial Revolution, located in Xiamen, Fujian Province (China).
It should be noted, that the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Center was announced by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2020 at the 12th BRICS Leaders Meeting and officially opened in 2021. Center works on three spheres: policy coordination, staff training, project development.
According to Jiang Qingsheng, Deputy Director of the Center, since the Center arranged over 60 high-level international exchange events signed a total 138 partnership projects with a total investment of over 62 billion yuan (about $9.2 billion USD). The Center is becoming a ‘super-connector’ between Chinese technologies and BRICS markets, government resources, and market forces.
During the visit INRTU delegation knew about innovational achievements of the Center in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, digital twins, and artificial intelligence. The Center has accumulated rich experience in building "smart factories", big data analytics, computer vision, and industrial natural language processing, and has also demonstrated examples of AI platform applications for automating back-office processes.
The parties focused on discussing areas of cooperation such as digital transformation, quality control, automation and robotics, and the application of artificial intelligence. INRTU is particularly interested in expanding partnership channels with international companies via partnership with universities, as well as international cooperation in education.
Representatives of the Center invited engineers, researches and technical specialists of INRTU to take part in the “Golden Heron” Scholarship Program in the field of intelligent manufacturing and industrial innovation. Within two weeks participants will explore the practical experience of leading Chinese companies and industry centers in intelligent manufacturing, industrial innovational development, new industrial technologies. The flagship initiative - the "Golden Heron" scholarship for outstanding specialists - has already attracted 55 highly qualified professionals from 28 countries during its first two intakes in 2025 and 2026.
“The meeting with the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Center representatives has laid the foundation for bilateral cooperation in technological and industrial interaction. Xiamen is one of China's first supply chain innovation centers and an important platform for BPIC international industrial cooperation. We hope to use this meeting as an opportunity to establish contacts between INRTU and local enterprises in Xiamen, as well as to expand cooperation channels with international companies,"
noted Mikhail Kornyakov.
