Interview With NPC Deputy, Lenovo Group Chairman And CEO Yang Yuanqing: China Made "Industrial Transition" Attracted Much Attention

In the post epidemic era, the new infrastructure has injected new digital impetus to industrial upgrading.

"I think our country's proposal of a new infrastructure is a very advanced idea. It is just right now, it is the right time." In an interview with the twenty-first Century economic report reporter, Yang Yuanqing, chairman of the NPC and Lenovo Group Chairman and CEO, pointed out: "now we see many customers, not only China, but also more overseas, who are reducing the cost of fixed assets and office space, but they increase their input in information technology and information infrastructure."

In Yang Yuanqing's view, the smart economy closely related to the new capital construction is an enabling person for China's new round of industrial upgrading. In the process of intelligent economic development, enterprises should strengthen their global layout and strive for the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain.

Industrial transformation forced by epidemic situation

Through painstaking efforts, China has effectively controlled the epidemic. With China entering the stage of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, economic recovery and development become the focus. In the post epidemic era, how to develop and develop the Chinese economy is a matter of concern.

Yang Yuanqing pointed out that the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic will not affect the fundamentals of China's long-term economic development. As the epidemic enters the stage of normalization of prevention and control, the recovery and development of China's economy can be made from three aspects, namely, the new business and consumption mode, the promotion of new information infrastructure construction and industrial upgrading.

To promote industrial upgrading, the "industrial transition" made in China has attracted much attention.

It is understood that "transition" is originally a physical concept. When the electron of low energy orbit absorbs certain energy, it can "jump" to high-energy orbit. On the new track, everything will be sorted again. Under the empowerment of innovative technology, the traditional industrial system will also leap to a more advanced track. On the new track, the original leader may not be ahead of the race.

This is the so-called "industrial transition".

"In the past, we talked about the path of industrial upgrading mainly" gradual upgrading "and" bend overtaking ", but these two ways are limited. Gradual upgrading is often constrained by the uneven industrial base level, and concentrates on the development of sophisticated industries to achieve overtaking in the curve and only a few industries. " Yang Yuanqing pointed out.

In his view, based on the advantages of manufacturing in China, the fourth industrial revolution provided a springboard for China to realize industrial transition.

Yang Yuanqing pointed out that in the past, the network computing architecture was cloud to tube end, and all "end" data were stored, calculated, analyzed and transmitted back to the cloud through a network pipeline. "In the era of 5G, such a structure will soon be inadequate. 5G will spawn new ICT network computing infrastructure.

This brand new structure is "end to side cloud network", which is also referred to by Yang Yuanqing as "smart economy".

In fact, in the process of epidemic prevention, whether smart healthcare, smart retailing, smart office or intelligent manufacturing, the amazing power of intelligent technology burst out of danger is the necessity and urgency for the whole society to speed up the promotion of intelligent transformation in China.

Lenovo's future strategy is to focus on the "end edge cloud network intelligence", and put forward the "3S strategy", from the Smart IoT intelligent Internet of things, Smart Infrastructure intelligent infrastructure and Smart Vertical industry intelligence three dimensions, to promote intelligent transformation, and strive to be intelligent change leader and empowerment.

Yang Yuanqing pointed out that 5G is the key element to promote the development of intelligent economy. To promote the development of intelligent economy, we must first accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G, and actively promote the combination of intelligent technology and the application scenarios of all walks of life, and speed up the pace of intelligent transformation of enterprises.

Lenovo, as one of the leading companies in the industry, has a very early layout in the field of 5G. According to Yang Yuanqing, so far, Lenovo has released the 5G PC and 5G mobile phones in the industry, and has also applied for 5G standard core patent patent (SEP) 766 pieces, only 256 in the year of 2019/20 fiscal year.

Supply chain and industry chain

Due to the uncertainty of the global epidemic situation and the economic and trade situation, this year's government work report has not proposed the specific target of the annual economic growth for the first time. Instead, it has led all parties to focus on "six stability" and "six guarantees".

Enterprises as the main body of the market can do well in doing well in six stability and implementing Six guarantees. Yang Yuanqing also said: "this year's government work report is particularly pragmatic. It also makes us feel the responsibility and burden of being an entrepreneur."

Returning to work and resuming production is the fundamental factor to stimulate employment. Beginning in the early February, Lenovo actively promoted resumption and resumption of production. Within 70 days, Lenovo, including the Wuhan plant, resumed 100% capacity and recruited more than 10000 new employees. Among them, Lenovo recruited nearly 1500 unemployed people through the "shared staff" plan.

It is worth noting that Lenovo, as a leading enterprise in the long industrial chain, is able to effectively promote the upstream and middle and small enterprises by resuming production and resuming production, thus ensuring the market players and promoting employment.

At the same time, ensuring the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain is also crucial.

As a world factory, China has the advantages of cost advantages, high-quality workforce and the advantages of industrial chain. Although some countries have shunted some of China's industrial chain and value chain, Yang Yuanqing pointed out that China's world factory status is hard to replace. He said bluntly: "no one can move away if he wants to move away."

Yang Yuanqing also believes that the stability of supply chain and industrial chain is closely related to the level of manufacturing. Chinese enterprises can not be satisfied with the results of low cost manufacturing alone, but also strive to enhance automation, digitalization and intellectualization of enterprises. Only in this way can China's manufacturing be invincible.

In addition, Yang Yuanqing stressed that Lenovo will be more firmly in the layout of global development, but at the same time, deep tillage localization operation, so that China's industrial chain and its market integration, with excellent operational capabilities and management skills, enhance enterprise resilience, and jointly build a inclusive, cooperative, mutually beneficial and win-win open world economy.

In fact, Lenovo's performance in the first quarter also reflected Lenovo's operation and management capabilities. Taking Lenovo's computer production in February as an example, in February, when the epidemic was severe, Lenovo delivered 12 million 800 thousand computers, far more than about 11000000 expected.

Meanwhile, Lenovo is seeking certainty and new opportunities as the epidemic brings uncertainty to the further restructuring of the global industrial chain and supply chain structure. "The epidemic will not reverse globalization, nor will it end the process of globalization, but it will enable people to re-examine the framework of globalization, industrial chain and governance, and constantly make amendments in cooperation and opening up, looking for new opportunities and new growth points." Yang Yuanqing said so.

Lenovo's response to this uncertainty lies in the integration of globalization and localization, namely, "global resources, local delivery and excellent operation".

Yang Yuanqing said that Lenovo clearly saw the global layout of the supply chain system and intelligent transformation in enhancing enterprise's anti risk value. During the epidemic period, Lenovo also succeeded in minimizing the impact of the epidemic on business by complementing the global supply chain and the market.

Since the beginning of the year, Lenovo has been promoting the resumption of domestic factories and production, while the factories in Lenovo Brazil, Mexico, the United States, India, Japan and other places have maintained normal operation. At the same time, Lenovo departments continue to communicate with the global suppliers and customers on the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, and formulate procurement and delivery programs to ensure the continuous operation of the global supply chain.

(author: Southern finance and Economics National two sessions report group Yang Qingqing, Huang Jiamin)