In response to the significant need to transform and promote the process industry in China, this issue presents the major existing limitations of current petrochemical enterprises, including limitations in decision-making, production operation, efficiency and security, information integration, and more. To promote a process industry that is based on high-end, smart, and green production, modern information technology should be utilized in the whole optimization process of production, management, and sales. This photograph is taken from the Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company, which is upheld as an example of smart manufacturing by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China.