China's digitalization process is accelerating. The digital economy and the real economy are deeply integrated, and they have been extended to various industries such as medical care, construction, real estate, media, education and automobiles. With the application of advanced technologies such as 5G and AI, many new business models are emerging, and the scenes in science fiction movies in the past have become more and more within reach. After the
epidemic, what has changed in people's lives? What links have been accelerated? What will the future smart life and smart city look like?
On the evening of November 23, the third round table of Wuzhen Coffee Club of Titanium Media "Entrepreneur Night Talk", Titanium Media Group founder and CEO Zhao Hejuan had a conversation with Huawei’s consumer business cloud service president Zhang Pingan, and Daojia Group and Swan Daojia CEO Chen Xiaohua, And Hao Jingfang, a well-known science fiction writer & founder of the Children's Academy, jointly imagined a smart future.
Talk about the feelings of 2020: Entrepreneurs have to do "long-term correct but difficult" things
"What does 2020 mean to you? What happened? What did you gain from it?" Zhao Hejuan said in 2020 changes And the impression is the opening.
Hao Jingfang, who was originally a full-time writer, joined the online education industry in 2017 and became an entrepreneur. She founded the Children's College, which focuses on general education and enlightenment for children aged 3-12, hoping to make children think big, think deep through scientific systems, interesting and effective exploratory courses. This year, the sudden epidemic has accelerated the process of the entire online education industry, and Hao Jingfang's work pace has also been infinitely accelerated.
"The biggest change for me is that this year was very busy. This year was driven by the epidemic and also driven by the form of online education. It became very busy."
This year is a difficult year for entrepreneurs. Under the normal situation of epidemic prevention and control, business sales, export, project negotiation and construction have almost stagnated, capital chains are tight, personnel are lost, and some businesses have rushed to online, and the pressure is overwhelming.
Hao Jingfang said that during this year, she better understood people who were in a state of deprivation for a long time. "When people are in a state of scarcity, they can only consider short-term benefits. Every day, I think about what to do tomorrow and what to do next week. I used to stand up and talk, and I would say,'Everyone You should look at the long-term', but when you are truly in need, you will understand people who have been in a state of lack for a long time. He does not have the ability and space to think about long-term things."
Daojia Group and Swan Daojia CEO Chen Xiaohua said that doing long-term correct but difficult things is a challenge for many entrepreneurs this year.
is also a year of change for Swan Daojia this year. On September 7, "58 Daojia" was officially renamed "Swan Daojia".
Chen Xiaohua said frankly that he might not have changed his name without this epidemic. Because of the objective impact of the epidemic, the Daojia team had more time to calmly think and make long-term plans, including renaming.
"The name change of a company during the epidemic just proved his confidence and determination in the industry, because the name change means that it will cost a lot of money to change a brand that has already been recognized. The name change shows our determination."
Huawei is the company that has experienced the most external pressure in 2020. According to Zhang Ping’an, President of Huawei’s Consumer Business Cloud Services, revealed at Titanium Media’s Wuzhen Cafe, that due to the suppression of the United States, Huawei must consider not only the hardware foundation, but also the software foundation and database. , Operating system, etc., the changes are especially big.
"The United States has been suppressing Huawei one after another, which is beyond our imagination," said Zhang Ping An. "Life is when you discover this kind of change and are forced to deal with it, and you find that your heart is strong. For Huawei, Huawei has at least 200,000 employees. Everyone has never fallen under pressure at any time, and at this time we can’t fall even more.”
Hao Jingfang’s Children’s Academy also experienced funding constraints this year. , Layoffs, but she insisted on investing in curriculum research and development. At Wuzhen Cafe, Hao Jingfang once again mentioned her original intention as an online education entrepreneur. The first is to supplement the scarce parts of our education system, especially science, humanities, and art, to help children open up their horizons. The second is to use technology to allow more educational resources to cover a wider range.
Zhang Ping’an puts forward two suggestions to entrepreneurs, one is to be good at embracing new technologies, and the other is to always seize customersUser experience. "The digital world has developed sufficiently rich, and giants have already laid out a lot in various places. So if you want to make a product, you must have a new innovative experience in some aspects, and even make users feel refreshed."
Chen Xiaohua fell back By 2020, he stated that this year he will "grow the grain to become the king". In the past few years, regardless of the overall environment or the small business environment, every industry has a lot of imperfect digital infrastructure. As a leading company, it must be Take root. Take Swan’s home as an example, to do housekeeping, starting from physical examinations, back adjustments, etc., starting from the infrastructure of every resume of the aunt, these infrastructures are the real barriers to enterprises.
Talking about smart life: Smart transportation and interactive AI may first be applied to
. Talking about the vision of future smart life, Chen Xiaohua is looking forward to changes in two areas: First, the field of travel. He believes that when the car is truly unmanned After becoming more intelligent, the revolution in transportation and travel may be even greater than the mobile phone revolution.
The second is that he hopes that all data can be interconnected. "For example, in the housekeeping industry today, the biggest problem is that it is not interconnected at all, and interconnection will bring about huge changes to the industry."
Chen Xiaohua's idea is more "radical" in terms of data exchange. "The simplest, I hope that all data is interconnected, all of us with cards, certificates, payments, and IDs. The so-called insurance and credit. In fact, I really hope that the society can solve it." Chen Xiaohua bluntly said that the privacy issues brought about by data interconnection and interoperability are not a problem in the long history. However, once the data interconnection and ID are unified, the efficiency will be greatly improved. As a science fiction writer, Hao Jingfang wants to see the commercialization of space, followed by the application of digital avatars. "I think digital doubles will be available soon. It may learn your habits, order shopping, book tickets and taxis, and talk for you in your own way. I think this will happen soon."
has many of these The intelligent life scenarios imagined by the guests are already on the ground. For example, Hao Jingfang is developing a robot himself. "I accept children’s questions and answers every day. Some children will keep asking repetitive questions, such as why we can’t feel the earth turning again, will people come back to life after death, why the earth is round but we look flat, Recently, I am training my own robot, and then I can learn my corpus to answer children’s questions.” Hao Jingfang believes that this digital technology can help many children with homework, enrich educational resources, and let more children enjoy relatively fairness. Education. "I personally think that such virtual teachers will continue to appear in the future." When
talked about AI applications, Zhang Ping'an, who was born in technology, was deeply moved. He said that AI will definitely continue to upgrade and iterate to be able to "naturally interact" with humans, and in the future more robots will surely replace humans to do dangerous work. "I think a large number of robots will replace us humans in various scenarios to do a lot of work. This is definitely the next step for artificial intelligence."
In the next stage, he believes that the physical world will be completely digitized. When many things in the physical world can be digitized by sensors, the physical world and the digital world can become a whole. The digital world is in complete communication with the physical world, and information is exchanged and shared. This is the ultimate direction pursued by all those who do technology and service.
But returning to the landing, Chen Xiaohua sighed that he had done a lot of science and technology, and in the end he had to "home". We have so much artificial intelligence and so much data accumulation, but when we face a real business scenario, there is a big gap between ideal and reality.
Talking about technological autonomy, cannot give up global thinking
In 2020, the topic of "key core technology must be autonomous and controllable" was put on the table again. Three guests also shared their views on this issue at the third roundtable of Wuzhen Cafe .
Zhang Ping’an said frankly that everyone used to look at this issue from the perspective of globalization and division of labor. “We have always wanted globalization. We have to hand over some things to other countries and we can’t control them all by ourselves.” However, under the pressure of the situation, politicization factors Make the issue of globalization more complicated.
But in this process, there are not completely opportunities. The reconstruction of the globalization pattern has created many job opportunities for us on the one hand. In the longer term, it has promoted the mature development of China’s industrial chain from top to bottom. Hao Jingfang graduated from the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University.When it comes to technological autonomy, she is quite emotional. She believes that the current world structure will force us to invest in some basic industries and basic research, which is a good thing in the long run.
"Even if we are in an era of great global division of labor, we can't always be too eager for quick success, and we have to spend a little time, energy and resources on basic research. This is difficult, but it is a good thing in the long run."
Even so, the guests do not think that the practices of individual countries will affect the general trend of globalization.
Chen Xiaohua added that he believes that the general trend of global division of labor has not changed. "The scale of enterprises will only grow larger, and the scale of human collaboration will only grow larger", but we (human beings) may every one or two hundred years. It will be necessary to reconsider the pattern of division of labor.
Hao Jingfang also said that taking the scientific community as an example, it is impossible to completely isolate it. No matter how politicians struggle, the scientists in the scientific community still communicate the real data. "Take this year as an example. When biologists really went to fight the new crown virus, they were still united. I don't feel worried about this, because today's scientific community has this consciousness."
Zhang Pingan once again emphasized Huawei's recognition of the current situation. Knowing, he said that the United States will continue to suppress Chinese companies or Huawei, but there will definitely be another group of people (companies, countries) who will support us and Huawei. He suggested that entrepreneurs must realize that they must be rooted in China, and while rooted, they must persist in going overseas to gain their own market opportunities in regionalization.
"We must persist in going overseas, expand the region as much as possible, so that others can strengthen their understanding of Chinese companies, and strive to become an "alliance". For many domestic companies, China is a huge base, but we still have to take care of the outside The world." (This article first published Titanium Media App, author | Zhao Yuhang)
