CCTV News(Reporter, Wang Xiaoying) In 2012, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Tencent and emphasized: "The Internet era has greatly promoted the development of human life, production and productivity."
At that time, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader also visited the Guangqi Institute of Advanced Technology, and President Liu Ruopeng promised the General Secretary: "We must be a world-class innovative enterprise in metamaterial innovation technology.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Leader’s visit to Guangdong, on November 28, the Supreme Leader’s General Secretary’s visit to Guangdong’s fifth anniversary all-media interview activity walked into Tencent and Guangqi to learn about their innovation stories in the past five years and explore the secret of Shenzhen’s journey from "following" to "leading" on the road of innovation.
Tencent: WeChat has been the top social software in China for five years
Tencent innovation chronology
"In 2012, General Secretary Xi visited Tencent, and the number of WeChat users was only 200 million. Five years later, the number of WeChat users has increased to 1 billion." Tang Lie, senior director of Tencent’s public policy department, said that with the accelerated development of innovation in the Internet field, Tencent has ranked among the world’s 500 forced, WeChat has also grown into a national social tool, affecting all aspects of people’s lives.
As of August this year, the number of monthly active users of WeChat and WeChat has reached 963 million, the WeChat public platform has gathered more than 20 million public accounts, Tencent mobile payment monthly active accounts and daily average payment transactions have exceeded 600 million times. At present, WeChat and many policy partnerships, WeChat city services are launched in more than 300 cities across the country. People can use WeChat to check social security, do violations, make appointments and register… More and more people enjoy the convenience brought by smart life!
Looking at Tencent’s development pace over the years from WeChat, the company has led the trend of mobile Internet with innovation, becoming the first Asian technology company with a valuation of over $500 billion.
In addition, in terms of cyber security, Tencent has also cooperated with the Ministry of Public Security to create Kirin and Eagle Eye systems to combat fake base stations and telecommunications fraud.
Guangqi: The 5-person team expanded to 2,600 people in 7 years
Infrared Invisibility Cloak
The world’s first commercial and practical jetpack "Guangqi Martin Flight Bag", the "Cloud", an aerial residence platform that integrates communication, optical remote sensing, Internet of Things monitoring, big data collection and analysis, and the subversive low-cost "green" transportation platform "Sun Ark"… These amazing "black technologies" all originated from Guangqi Institute of Advanced Technology (hereinafter referred to as "Guangqi").
Since its establishment in 2010, Guangqi has developed from a 5-person returnee innovation team to a global innovation group with a R & D team of nearly 2,600 people, a global innovation community, technical personnel across 5 continents, innovation institutions are distributed in 21 countries and regions, the pace of marketization continues to expand, and the technical application field has expanded from the field of metamaterials to aerospace and artificial intelligence.
As of November 2017, Guangqi’s patent applications exceeded 4,400, nearly double that of five years ago, and more than 2,400 patents were authorized. Among them, patents in the field of metamaterials have an overwhelming advantage, accounting for 86% of the total number of patent applications in this field. It has mastered the world’s leading metamaterial technology, new space technology and intelligent photonic technology, and other core intellectual property rights, leading the way in international competitiveness.
"Young members bring new ideas and vitality to the team. Guangqi can recruit outstanding talents from top foreign universities. In addition to recognizing the company’s innovation and technology, it also depends on Shenzhen’s generous policy of attracting talents and the environment of innovation and entrepreneurship in Shenzhen." Yang Jingru, brand director of the Brand and Market Operation Center of Shenzhen Guangqi Institute of Advanced Technology, told reporters that for this company, which specializes in "future" products, one of the biggest "troubles" is to explore the confusion or pain points in the city, convert market demand into technical demand, better connect with market demand, and integrate innovative technology into the daily life of citizens.
Global Talent Strategy Boosts Innovation
Nowadays, building a modern, international and innovative city has become the new mission of the special zone.
The leapfrog development of Tencent and Guangqi stems from innovation and is also the epitome of the innovative development of tens of thousands of enterprises in Shenzhen. In 2016, Shenzhen’s high-tech industry achieved an output value of 1.922206 trillion yuan and an added value of 656.002 billion yuan.
Innovation-driven, talent first. The essence of innovation-driven is talent-driven. Whoever has first-class innovative talents will have the advantage and dominance of technological innovation.
Li Xiaogan, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda Department
Li Xiaogan, member of the Standing Committee of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, said that in 2016, Shenzhen launched several measures to promote scientific and technological innovation, support enterprises to enhance competitiveness and promote the priority development of talents, and guided by three policies to further promote supply-side structural reform. The reform released strong momentum. In 2016, Shenzhen’s GDP exceeded 1.93 trillion yuan, an increase of about 9% year-on-year.
In order to attract talents, Shenzhen implements the "Peacock Plan", which arranges 1 billion yuan per year to introduce overseas high-level innovative talent teams, with a maximum subsidy of 100 million yuan. A talent innovation and entrepreneurship fund with a total scale of 8 billion yuan is established to support talents to carry out research on cutting-edge technologies, original technologies, and disruptive technologies. For example, Royole Technology, founded by Liu Zihong’s team introduced through the "Peacock Plan", has successfully developed the world’s thinnest color flexible display screen, which is less than 1/5 the diameter of a hair strand. It has been among the "Unicorn Club" with a global valuation of over 1 billion US dollars for more than two years.
At the same time, in the past five years, Shenzhen’s total social R & D investment has increased from 3.77% of GDP in 2012 to 4.1% in 2016, realizing the transformation of technological innovation from "follow-up" to "parallel-run" and "lead".
Shenzhen has formulated the country’s first national innovative city master plan, taken the lead in issuing local regulations to promote scientific and technological innovation, and successively issued a series of policies such as "33" independent innovation, "1 + 10" documents for innovation-driven development, strategic emerging industries, and future industrial planning. It has comprehensively increased support for independent innovation from various aspects such as financial and financial support, talent support, innovation carrier construction, and the development of science and technology service industries, forming a policy chain covering the entire process of the independent innovation system.
