Highlights

• Baogang Group's Xinlian Company has built an A-grade intelligent computing center achieving 'independent controllability' for core technologies.
• The computing center serves as foundational infrastructure for the group's steel, rare earth, and mining operations.
• The center is expanding as a regional computing backbone for nearby industrial firms.
• Operational deployments include remote-control mining equipment at Baiyun and AI-powered high-voltage inspection robots.
• Six digital transformation scenarios have been recognized across China's steel industry in 2025.
• This integration of AI and industrial computing represents China's policy-driven effort to create demand through smart and green upgrades.
• The upgrades potentially deliver cost, speed, and resilience advantages difficult for Western supply chains to match without comparable industrial policy.

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Xinlian Company, a digital-technology affiliate of Baogang Group, reports progress building industrial computing infrastructure and deploying AI-enabled solutions across mining, power operations, and supply-chain services—another example of China’s accelerating integration of digital systems into heavy industry and strategic materials ecosystems.

In a Feb. 3, 2026, report from Baogang Group–affiliated media (Baogang Daily), Xinlian says Baogang’s Industrial Internet “intelligent computing center” is now built and operating as a foundational asset for the group’s “digital intelligence empowerment” strategy. The center has obtainedan A-grade machine-room certification, completed a self-managed cloud platform migration, and achieved “independent controllability” for core technologies—policy-coded language signaling tighter domestic control over critical digital infrastructure.

Xinlian also reports a deepened strategic cooperation with a well-known domestic e-commerce company, positioning the computing center not only as internal infrastructure for Baogang’s steel and rare earth operations, but also as a regional computing backbone supporting nearby industrial firms.

Operationally, Xinlian says its “one platform, three products” suite underwent multiple upgrades in 2025, with six results selected as typical steel-industry digital transformation scenarios. Examples include remote-control deployment for mining equipment at the Baiyun operation, and a “180” high-voltage switchyard inspection robot that replaces human inspection in high-temperature/high-voltage environments while transmitting data for real-time analysis.

Macro link—greenification + digitization as demand policy

Read this as more than IT modernization. It fits China’s top-down effort to create new demand through “smart” and “green” industrial upgrades—electrification, automation, data centers, and digitally managed infrastructure—partly in response to chronic overcapacity and price pressures in legacy sectors. By converting steel/mining/rare-earth operations into “digital + low-carbon” showcases, Beijing can stimulate domestic equipment demand (robots, sensors, power electronics, motors, magnets) while defending margins through productivity gains—an approach that can indirectly reinforce China’s rare earth and magnet advantage.

Why this matters for the West

This isn’t a single breakthrough; it’s the potential of systematic scaling. China is attempting a hardwiring of AI and industrial computing into the same industrial stack that produces strategic materials. For U.S. and allied supply chains, the threat is not only material control, but digitally optimized cost, speed, and resilience that are difficult to match without comparable industrial policy and deployment cadence.

Disclosure & Verification Notice: This report is translated and summarized from state-owned, Baogang Group–affiliated media (Baogang Daily). Claims reflect official statements and should be independently verified; reported achievements may emphasize policy alignment and strategic signaling as much as commercial performance.