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A few days ago, at the seminar organized by Tsinghua University Global Industry 4.5 Research Institute with the theme of "Speculation: Innovation in China", more than 10 experts and scholars discussed "Chinese-style innovation". Participants generally believe that "Chinese-style innovation" takes the mass line. At present, China has gone from a follower of innovation to the forefront of innovation.
Under the wave of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, everyone can innovate independently.
Premier Li Keqiang’s vigorous advocacy of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" triggered a wave of national innovation, which left a deep impression on experts and scholars. "The most important thing for China’s innovation is to take the mass line." Chen Jin, director of Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Center, said, "Under the wave of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, everyone can innovate independently. Through the public leading market innovation, Chinese-style innovation has been done very well unconsciously. "
At the same time, the expert believes that this innovation power does not depend entirely on small and medium-sized enterprises, but also on large enterprises, giving full play to the advantages of state-owned enterprises, which reflects the government’s leadership. Our innovation model is different from the imitation of East Asia and the grass-roots model of South Asia. "China takes an integrated innovation, combining all its advantages.". Wu Guisheng, executive vice president of China Society of Technical Economics, believes that the government and the market are the two major forces driving Chinese-style innovation.
Hu Zhijian, president of China Academy of Science and Technology Development Strategy, noted that China is now shifting from top-down technological nationalism to bottom-up mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and its innovation momentum is further enhanced.
"China’s innovation and development is a road of innovation in a big country, and it can achieve rapid catch-up." Fu Xiaolan, director of the Technology Management and Development Center of Oxford University, commented accordingly, "This reflects a dynamic and open national system."
China’s innovation is gradually forming its own brand.
Zhu Hengyuan, vice president of Tsinghua University Global Industry 4.5 Research Institute, believes that globalization and informatization have changed China’s backward position in technology as a late-developing country, which has spawned an innovation upsurge in China, making China’s innovation gradually lead the world.
The favorable environment for innovation in China is, on the one hand, the policy dividend brought by the government’s vigorous promotion of reform and opening up, and on the other hand, the vast space provided by the world’s largest market. Wang Xiaobing, director of the Social Research Center of Tencent Research Institute, said that the innovation conditions in China are quite different from those in the past: the investment in science and technology has reached the second place in the world, and it has a strong production capacity. In the past two or three decades of development, it has gathered a huge team of engineers and a huge user base willing to adopt early adopters.
"Future innovation will surely be the era of digital innovation, and China will surely lead this era." Yujiang county, executive director of the Network Innovation and Development Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said. He pointed out that China’s innovation has a huge number of users, which can not be ignored, which can be seen from the fact that IBM Health System has to enter China at any cost. In the era of digital innovation, China has a low-cost advantage in the user base, which will consume nearly 80% of the world’s data.
According to Wang Qing, director of the Marketing and Innovation Research Center of the Business School of Warwick University, China’s innovation is gradually forming its own brand. He explained that just as people think of Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon when they mention the United States, WeChat, Alipay, Huawei and high-speed rail have become innovative business cards in China.
The singularity of China’s innovation has arrived.
While marveling at the rapid development of "Chinese-style innovation", experts from the industry and academia also looked forward to the future of innovation in China. Chen Jin believes that the next breakthrough in innovation is how to integrate and improve the level and enhance the country’s scientific research capabilities. Fu Xiaolan pointed out that the key to China’s innovation in the future is to establish an incentive mechanism, especially an effective incentive mechanism for researchers.
Hu Zhijian’s focus is on balance. He said that with the deepening of globalization, China’s market will be broader, and how to balance the protection of domestic enterprises and enhance global competitiveness under the conditions of open innovation will become an important new topic.
Innovation will become the most important driving force of China’s economy-this is the consensus reached by the scholars attending this seminar. Chen Jin believes that Made in China 2025 can completely surpass German Industry 4.0, because they are industrialization and informatization, while we are informatization and industrialization, which in turn has different promotion and pulling effects.
Wang Xiaobing recalled that WeChat had been imitated at first, and the innovative path accumulated step by step developed into a product that even Facebook had to learn. He believes that the same is true of "Chinese-style innovation", which requires a certain foundation at first. After the foundation is consolidated, all kinds of innovations will naturally occur.
"The singularity of China’s innovation has arrived." He said. (Reporter Yang Fang)