On September 12, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology completed the public announcement of the "2025 Exemplary Smart Factory Project List." Qidu Pharma's application for its "Fully Digitalized and Intelligent Collaborative Smart Factory for Pharmaceutical Preparations" was successfully included in the list. This second national batch of Exemplary SmartFactories comprises 274 enterprises in total, including 11 from the pharmaceutical industry and 27 from Shandong Province. Qidu Pharma is the first in Zibo City to achieve the Exemplary Smart Factory designation.

The construction of Qidu Pharma's Smart Factory focuses on creating a digital exemplary production model characterized by "implementable and innovative digital-lean management, comprehensive and traceable full-life-cycle coverage, and shareable and collaborative full-business-process integration." This fully digitalized and intelligent collaborative smart factory encompasses plant construction, R&D design, production operations, production management, and operations management. Key achievements include:

Intelligent Equipment Integration and Upgrade with Comprehensive Network Connectivity: The company introduced internationally advanced intelligent equipment, achieving a numerical control rate of 98% and a network connectivity rate of 95%. This enables automated operation for 80% of processes, real-time visual production execution management and control, and automatic data collection and sharing, supporting the concrete implementation of lean management.

Upstream and Downstream Business Chain Collaboration with End-to-End Digital Traceability: Leveraging high-speed networks, information security, and cloud computing, a digital collaborative platform was built, achieving integrated coordination across sales, procurement, production, quality, warehousing, and logistics. Through the organic integration of MES, LIMS, and online quality inspection equipment, the company pioneered the use of Electronic Batch Records in the industry. This ensures that full-life-cycle production data is immutable and reliably traceable, facilitating the efficient operation of a comprehensive, whole-process, and integrated quality management model.

Model and Algorithm Development for Intelligent Decision-Making and Dynamic Optimization: Utilizing AI technologies like machine vision, neural networks, and deep learning, along with intelligent algorithm models for automatic optimization, intelligent production scheduling, and intelligent shipping dispatch – all integrated with the digital collaboration platform – an operational control "brain" for the smart factory has been created. This drives intelligent decision-making and dynamic optimization for key business activities, digitally empowering enterprise production and operations.

Moving forward, Qidu Pharma will strive towards building a "Leading-Level" Smart Factory and achieving first-class standards in the pharmaceutical industry's digital construction. The focus will be on leveraging digital capabilities for scientific data analysis and precise decision-making across the entire value chain (R&D, production, supply, sales), fostering innovation and breakthroughs in production methods, business models, and service systems, and promoting collaborative development across the upstream and downstream industry chain. This will drive the expansion, deeper penetration, and evolution of intelligent applications within the pharmaceutical industry to higher levels. Simultaneously, the company will better leverage its demonstrative and leading role to propel technological transformation and iterative upgrades in the pharmaceutical industry, contributing significantly to building China into a leading pharmaceutical nation.