The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology annually publishes a Pilot and Demonstration Plan that serves as a guideline for platformisation. It covers different categories of Pilot and Demonstration areas that are open for companies to apply. After a selection process MIIT publishes a list of the companies that have been selected for the Pilot and Demonstration areas. In the Briefing you read among others about the relevance of these documents, the country’s planned milestones on how to promote Industrial Internet platforms across the Chinese manufacturing sector as well as market opportunities for the private sector.