In order to promote the integration of informatization and industrialization, promote the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, and strengthen Sino-Russian scientific and technological cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, the Fifth International Conference on Industrial Informatics-Computing Technology, Intelligent Technology, Industrial Information Integration, ICICII 2021) was successfully held at Shantou University from December 18 to 19, co-organized by the Russian Academy of Engineering and Wuhan University of Technology, and hosted by Guangdong Provincial Joint Research Center for Evolutionary Intelligence and Robotics, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing Technology and Shantou Robotics and Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute.

The meeting was chaired by Professor Fan Zhun, Director of Key Laboratory. Professor Hao Zhifeng, President of Shantou University, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the conference. The meeting invited Professor Leonid Ivanov, Vice President and Academic Secretary-General of the Russian Academy of Engineering and Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, Professor Kaushik Rajashekara, Academician of the American Academy of Engineering and Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Academician of the Royal Academy of New Zealand, and 19 other professors from well-known research institutes and universities at home and abroad gave a report. The meeting was held online and offline at the same time. Teachers and students from Shantou University and Wuhan University of Technology participated in the meeting.

On the 18th, eight keynote speeches were delivered on the following topics: Decomposition Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Computation, Power Electronics and Communications with Intelligent Control Enabled Smart Grid, Enhance of Engagement Based on BCI for Rehabilitation Robotics, Promising Areas of Research and Technological Cooperation in Different Fields of Engineering, Intelligent Optimization Methods and Their Aviation Application Research, Variable Length Optimization Solution through Evolutionary Computing, Multi-modal Machine Generation and Translation, Reconfigurable Exoskeleton with Enhanced Autonomy and Intelligence for Effective home-based Rehabilitation, these speeches covering evolutionary computing, industrial prospects, artificial intelligence, robots and other fields.

Nine keynote speeches were given on the 19th, reporting themes: Cyber-Physical Secure Energy Transition: Models and Algorithms for a Resilient Power System Operation, E-CARGO and Role-Based Collaboration, Optimization Applications Based on Computing Intelligence, Research on Optimization Algorithms Based on Artificial Intelligence, Population Intelligent Aggregation and Emergence Research Based on Organism Evolution Mechanisms, General Interactive Pixel-level Image Editing Methods, The Role of optimization and Verification in Promoting a Green Society: Vehicles and Industrial Processes as Examples, Synerators between Nanogenerator Based Sensors and Artificial Intelligence, Privacy-Preserving Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization, themes covering multi-objective algorithms, robots, nanomaterials and intelligent materials, intelligent optimization methods, network security, neural networks and other fields.

The conference blended important related issues such as big data and artificial intelligence, intelligent optimization, nanomaterials and intelligent materials together, displayed the latest research results in the field of industrial informatics, strengthened Sino-Russian scientific and technological cooperation, provided suggestions for the integration of informatization and industrialization in Guangdong Province, and improved international scientific and technological innovation in Guangdong.