Yang Yuanqing: Playing A Good Role In Technological Innovation And Promoting The Upgrading Of China'S Manufacturing Industry With "New It"

Yang Qingqing, reporting group of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress of China Southern finance and economics all media group reports from Beijing

Yang Yuanqing, deputy to the National People's Congress, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, is always enthusiastic and eloquent when it comes to scientific and technological innovation. Innovation is his heart.

As one of the typical Chinese manufacturing enterprises since the reform and opening up, Lenovo has its own way of growth and innovation. In the opening year of the 14th five year plan, innovation is not only Lenovo, but also a cornerstone for the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry and even China's economy.

Therefore, it is also the foothold of Yang Yuanqing's proposal of the NPC and CPPCC this year. This year, focusing on the changes in technology, society, people's livelihood and environment brought about by smart economy, Yang Yuanqing put forward suggestions such as giving full play to the strength of science and technology, developing supply chain finance, developing vocational education, promoting the development of strategic emerging industries of "China's Intelligent Manufacturing", helping the "silver haired" to cross the digital divide, and improving the carbon neutral governance capacity of enterprises.

"If I can summarize the two sessions' proposal in one sentence, it is that" new it "can empower the real economy and promote the construction of a new pattern of dual circulation." In an interview with the 21st century economic reporter, Yang Yuanqing pointed out. In his opinion, the development of digital economy and the acceleration of digital and intelligent transformation of all walks of life are inseparable from the support and empowerment of new IT infrastructure.

"New it" speeds up intelligent change

For the whole world, 2020 under the background of the new epidemic situation is an extraordinary year. Now entering the opening year of the 14th five year plan, Yang Yuanqing is optimistic about the future economic development trend.

The world bank predicts that the global economy is expected to grow by 4% in 2021 with the smooth promotion of the new crown vaccine. In addition, the IMF predicts that China's GDP growth is expected to reach 8.2% in 2021, leading the global economic recovery.

"We believe that the structural demand changes brought about by the epidemic will promote all walks of life to accelerate the progress of intelligent transformation, thus further expanding the market space of new infrastructure related industries such as data center, 5g, artificial intelligence and industrial Internet. These are areas where China is basically at the same starting line as other countries, and even has comparative advantages." Yang Yuanqing said.

This is also reflected in the draft outline of the 14th five year plan. In the draft of the planning outline, it is proposed to develop digital economy, promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, and promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy.

In this regard, the thinking and experience of Yang Yuanqing and Lenovo is to apply "new it" in all walks of life, so as to accelerate the intelligent reform.

It in the so-called "new it" is not traditional information technology, but intelligent Transformation (intelligent transformation) is based on the technical architecture of "end (Intelligent Internet of things terminal) - edge (edge computing) - cloud (Cloud Computing) - Network (5g) - intelligent (industry intelligence)", enabling all walks of life to realize the technologies, services and solutions required for intelligent transformation.

Yang Yuanqing has also mentioned the technical structure of "end edge cloud network intelligence" many times before. Among them, the end-to-side IOT devices, especially the current 5g commercialization, make it possible to connect massive devices, and evolve into a trinity of software, hardware and services in various scenarios.

"Edge cloud network" focuses on computing power. With the collaborative efforts of edge computing, cloud computing and high-speed network represented by 5g, computing power, one of the elements of the intelligent era, can be more powerful and ubiquitous.

After that, on the basis of the end-to-end cloud network and learning, summarizing and refining the advanced algorithm of artificial intelligence, we can create end-to-end industry intelligence solutions for specific scenarios of vertical industries.

"At present, we are in a historical point of double superposition of China's economic transformation cycle and global technological innovation cycle." Yang Yuanqing said that the implementation of "new it" in the real economy will greatly improve the technological innovation efficiency and commercialization process of the economy as a whole and individual enterprises. It is the core success factor for enterprises and industries to cross the double cycle and win the intelligent era.

The opportunity of "China's Intelligent Manufacturing"

The manufacturing industry in which Lenovo is located is the main body of the national economy and the foundation of a strong country. Therefore, the "new it" mentioned by Yang Yuanqing first falls into the transformation and upgrading of made in China.

At present, China is building a new development pattern with the domestic big cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycle promoting each other. Yang Yuanqing believes that in order to play a greater role in this process, "made in China" still needs to build brand power, enhance innovation, and speed up the pace of moving forward to the middle and high-end.

While entering the high-quality development stage of the "14th five year plan", it is more necessary to realize the improvement of quality and efficiency by intelligent technology, accelerate the pace towards the middle and high-end, and upgrade "made in China" to "made in China". Once these advanced intelligent technologies are combined with China's huge manufacturing industry, they can provide a new springboard for China's manufacturing industry to become bigger and stronger and realize transformation and upgrading.

It should be noted that intelligent manufacturing does not simply add some robots to the production line. Yang Yuanqing stressed that intelligent manufacturing is the digitization and intellectualization of the whole manufacturing process and decision-making process.

"In the past few years, Lenovo, where I work, has been making such a transformation." According to Yang Yuanqing, by deploying 5g private network and rich edge equipment in the production workshop, using cameras for quality inspection, analyzing the data provided by intelligent machine tools and other terminals and realizing predictive maintenance, and conducting demand forecasting and intelligent production scheduling based on relevant data such as customer orders, component supply and product planning, Lenovo factory has greatly improved its production efficiency Rate and product quality.

"The products coming out of our domestic intelligent factories can not only meet the needs of the domestic big cycle, but also more accurately grasp the needs of the global market, and confidently participate in the competition and cooperation of the international big cycle." Yang Yuanqing pointed out, "today, 90% of our products are made in China, but 70% of our revenue comes from overseas. This is the effect of double cycle operation."

Therefore, Yang Yuanqing pointed out that made in China needs to change from "making a wedding dress for others" to producing its own products with international influence, and from the manufacturing object, it needs to change from simple follow-up products to more innovative products.

"More importantly, in terms of manufacturing level and capability, we should rely on the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the whole value chain of" R & D - production - supply - Sales - service ", and transform from low-cost manufacturing to medium - and high-end manufacturing with" high-quality. " Yang Yuanqing pointed out. In this process, the effectiveness of "new it" intelligent transformation is worth looking forward to.

Playing a leading role in scientific and technological innovation

As an infrastructure, "new it" can support and empower the real economy. However, what is the basis of "new it" capabilities? Innovation is undoubtedly the word.

"This year is the first year of the 14th five year plan, and it is also a year to accelerate the formation of a new development pattern." Yang Yuanqing said bluntly, "we should play a good game of technological innovation, only in this way can we continuously gather and expand the momentum of development, and promote the high-quality development of economic society."

On the long way of innovation, enterprises are not only the new force, but also the users and beneficiaries of achievements. Enterprises should increase R & D investment, gather global scientific research talents, and deepen international cooperation, which will help to promote a virtuous cycle of scientific research funding investment, enterprise R & D and market demand.

Among them, leading enterprises need to play a leading and supporting role. According to Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo has 17 R & D bases around the world, with more than 10000 R & D personnel and engineers. It invests 10 billion yuan every year in research and development of new technologies, accumulating nearly 30000 patents and patent applications around the world, including more than 1200 necessary patents for 5g standard. Recently, the IFI global patent 250 list was released, and Lenovo ranked first in the global patent industry.

However, Yang Yuanqing also pointed out that many new formats and models have been derived from the accelerated evolution of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial revolution, which at the same time brings difficulties to the protection of intellectual property rights. Therefore, he suggested that we should strengthen the judicial protection of intellectual property in key core technologies, emerging industries and key fields, and increase the application of intelligent technology, so as to further improve the level and efficiency of judicial protection of intellectual property.

In addition, Yang Yuanqing believes that we should actively participate in international cooperation and competition in the field of intellectual property rights. "It is suggested that the judicial authorities should join hands with Chinese science and technology enterprises with a high degree of internationalization to participate in the global intellectual property governance under the framework of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), promote the improvement of relevant international rules through judicial adjudication, and promote the development of global intellectual property governance system towards a more just and reasonable direction."