The Shiguai district of the city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region now has China's only Internet Plus cloud platform for manufacturing, as of Jan 20 as part of a pilot project for national improvements in the industry by combining it with the Internet.

China's State Council announced its 10-year "Made in China 2025" plan, on May 19, 2015, whose goal is to change China from a manufacturing giant into a global power by combining manufacturing with big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and 3D printing.

To do this, Inner Mongolia has allotted some 15 million yuan ($2.3 million) for it, while Baotou has provided 25 million yuan for facilities and began the process with setting up platforms for manufacturing, R&D, numerically controlled networking, business, CAE Cloud simulation, and big data applications, to provide an integrative service center for the manufacturing development in this context of Internet Plus.