As the current hottest science and technology, AI is reconstructing industrial development and the world pattern. On May 26, the “AI Awakens New Scenes” 2025 Jiumu Technology Innovation Conference was held in Shanghai. Jiumu Group globally premiered two scene brands, “Jiumu AI BATH” and “Xiaomu YOUNG BATH”, which attracted widespread attention in the industry. At the conference, He Fan, Dean of the China Institute for Development Research at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and author of Variables, delivered a keynote speech entitled Where Do the Innovation Advantages of China’s Manufacturing Industry Come From, which conducted in-depth interpretations on technology and transformation of China’s manufacturing industry, as well as the resilience and innovation of Chinese enterprises.​

“Currently, China is facing a historic opportunity of global market restructuring brought about by the new technological revolution. Made in China has shown amazing strength and resilience, and this resilience stems from the fact that China’s economy has formed a good innovation ecosystem and soil. Chinese consumers are more willing to accept changes, and new technologies can more easily find application scenarios. The future of China’s economy is not in the macro landscape but in the micro details. Only by finding those ‘small trends’ can we see major changes. The Chinese sanitary ware industry represented by Jiumu, from product technology breakthroughs to the global initiative of AI scene bathroom, is a microcosm of China’s manufacturing industry ‘growing into towering trees from capillaries’. Jiumu is finding a unique path in the complex variable environment of the economy,” He Fan analyzed the upgrading path of China’s sanitary ware industry with the “variable methodology” at the event site.​

Technological Innovation, the Strong Rise of China’s Sanitary Ware Industry​

Over more than 40 years of reform and opening up, Made in China has undergone earth-shaking changes. Ten years ago, Chinese people traveled to Japan to snap up smart toilet covers. Today, Chinese sanitary ware products represented by Jiumu are sold well around the world. This is not only the transformation of the sanitary ware industry but also a microcosm of the rise of China’s intelligent manufacturing and its march to the world. Behind this reverse consumption trend reflects the vigorous development of China’s sanitary ware industry, and technology has become the primary driving force for Chinese brands to surpass international companies.​

“Over the past decade, I have visited many enterprises and witnessed the visible changes and progress in this industry. As one of China’s largest sanitary ware enterprises, Jiumu has made many efforts and achieved innovative highlights in intelligent transformation and product innovation. This year, Jiumu continues to increase investment in technological innovation. The two bathroom scenes of Jiumu AI BATH and Xiaomu YOUNG BATH have incorporated many imaginations of Jiumu for family scene innovation!” said Wu Xiaobo, a well-known financial writer.​

“‘Mix and match’ is the theme of innovation. In the past, China’s technological innovation was not always earth-shaking revolutions, but every minute, on every inch of land, China’s innovations are constantly happening, and these innovations support each other. Now the logic of technological revolution has changed: from ‘disruptive innovation’ to ‘mix and match innovation’. Grafting old technologies to new scenes is often more effective and practical than overall subversion,” He Fan pointed out that currently, technological innovation is no longer a single breakthrough but a manifestation of systematic capabilities, and scene innovation has stimulated infinitely broad prospects. As a representative of the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry, Jiumu has ranked first in global sales of intelligent sanitary ware by virtue of continuous investment in the field of intelligent sanitary ware.​

Facing social changes such as aging population and upgrading of life aesthetics, intelligent sanitary ware is entering broader application scenarios such as aging-friendly transformation, health management, and environmental friendliness. Changes in consumer demand have deeply driven the reform and model innovation of scene brands at a given level, and national-level demand is giving birth to national-level brands. Future “new species” enterprises will no longer be defined by the industry but take the initiative to define the industry. Jiumu, with AI-driven multi-dimensional integration practices, is constantly breaking through the boundaries of traditional sanitary ware, imprinting global manufacturing with Chinese characteristics, and providing a replicable and vivid model for the transformation of China’s intelligent manufacturing and global development.​

Industry First, Jiumu’s Flip Flushing Technology Subverts Tradition​

It is reported that Jiumu’s globally premiered “full-link AI active bathroom solution” — AI BATH, by building four new scenes of toilet use, shower, washing, and safety, and equipped with the Deepseek large model, with the AI prediction system as the core engine, through intelligent perception and deep learning, creates a “thinking” bathroom scene, freeing users from cumbersome, fragmented, and dull operation instructions and truly returning to the pure experience brought by the bathroom scene.​

In fact, Jiumu has always integrated technological innovation into the gene of enterprise development. It was the first in the industry to formulate the strategic positioning of “Technology Sanitary Ware, World Jiumu”, and continuously occupied consumers’ technological minds. At the R&D level, Jiumu has 16 R&D and design centers worldwide, with a R&D team of more than 5,000 people. The annual R&D investment is not less than 10% of sales, and the cumulative number of innovation patents exceeds 20,000, continuously building the “Jiumu Cloud” digital intelligent R&D platform.​

Taking Jiumu X90 ultra-quiet smart toilet as an example, it is equipped with the world’s first flip flushing technology, adopting a globally revolutionary intelligent motor and a flushing structure without a jet port, replacing “flushing” with “discharging”. The flushing noise is reduced to 38 decibels, which is equivalent to the buzzing of a mosquito. It also effectively prevents aerosol splashing and odor return. In addition, it pioneered a sewage pipe diameter of 65mm, which is 1.5 times that of the conventional pipe diameter in the industry. The super large displacement ensures that the toilet is flushed clean, not blocked, and not scaled, directly addressing users’ pain points in bathroom flushing and redefining the standards of high-end smart toilets.​

“The flip flushing technology is completely independently developed by Jiumu and has obtained global patents. It uses the most stable material with the most superior comprehensive performance in automobile engines as the sealing material, with excellent weather resistance and chemical resistance. We have conducted millions of tests in extreme environments in the laboratory, and it still meets the sealing and flipping use requirements,” said the person in charge of Jiumu’s R&D.​

“AI and robot technology are reconstructing the value chains of various industries. Jiumu will continue to take promoting industrial technology upgrading as its responsibility, accelerate the exploration of a new path of Chinese-style modernization in the field of digital intelligent sanitary ware, create a sustainable development model, build a smarter, healthier, greener, and more sustainable family comfort scene for global users, and show the world the technological care of China’s intelligent manufacturing.”​

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