BEIJING – As the metaverse concept continues to dominate the global tech industry, local companies are striving to build a digital kingdom that has Chinese characteristics.

Unlike some foreign companies that focus on the entertainment uses of the metaverse, Chinese companies are prioritizing its industrial application and potential to advance industrial upgrading, experts said.

The industrial metaverse generally refers to a virtual world in which real machines and factories, buildings and cities, networks and transportation, and other industrial objects and systems are digitally mirrored with technologies such as virtual and augmented reality, they said. .

Li Bohu, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said…