(Interview between the two sessions) Yang Yuanqing: Let "New IT" Empower the Real Economy and Promote the Advancement of "Intelligent Manufacturing in China"

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 9th (Reporter Du Yan and Zhang Su) This year’s government work report stated that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to "persist in focusing on economic development on the real economy, and promote advanced industrial foundation and industrialization." Chain modernization".

Yang Yuanqing, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, believes that to accelerate the in-depth integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and promote the industrial upgrading of China's manufacturing, this is inseparable from the support and empowerment of the "new IT" infrastructure.

　　The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is the first five years of the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

This year is the beginning of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. In this year's government work report, innovation and development and technological innovation have become high-frequency words.

　　Yang Yuanqing said frankly that the report put forward the proposal of “maintaining the focus of economic development on the real economy”, “maintaining the basic stability of the manufacturing industry, transforming and upgrading traditional industries”, “accelerating digital development, creating new advantages in the digital economy, and synergistically advancing digital industrialization and development. "Industrial Digital Transformation" is deeply impressed and deeply recognized.

　　In his view, it is necessary to accelerate the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, empower the real economy through "new IT", and realize the intelligent transformation of all walks of life.

　　"IT is no longer the traditional Information Technology (information technology), but Intelligent Transformation (intelligent transformation)." Yang Yuanqing said, the so-called "new IT" is based on the "end (intelligent IoT terminal)-edge (edge ​​computing) )—Cloud (cloud computing)—network (5G)—intelligence (industry intelligence)" technology architecture empowers all walks of life and realizes the technologies, services and solutions needed for intelligent transformation.

　　He said that in the era of explosive growth of big data, only through the coordinated efforts of all elements of "new IT" can data be better transformed into means of production, thereby generating value and becoming the starting point for enabling high-quality development.

　　"At present, China is at a historical point in which the cycle of China's economic transformation and the cycle of global technological innovation are superimposed." He pointed out that the all-round application of "new IT" in all walks of life will accelerate intelligent transformation and help greatly improve The technological innovation efficiency and commercialization process of the economy as a whole and individual enterprises are the core success factors for enterprises and industries to pass through the dual cycle and win the intelligent era.

　　"Intelligent transformation" is indispensable for technological innovation.

Yang Yuanqing said that Lenovo currently has 17 R&D bases around the world, and invests more than 10 billion yuan in R&D every year to build a three-tier R&D system for Lenovo Ventures, Research Institute, and Product Division.

　　In January of this year, Lenovo Group announced that it plans to be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board.

According to the announcement, the Lenovo Group’s board of directors approved the issuance of China Depository Receipts (CDR) and the initial proposal to apply for CDR listing and trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board.

　　Yang Yuanqing stated that from the very beginning of its establishment, Lenovo has attached importance to technological innovation, made unremitting investment, established a sound innovation system, paid attention to patent protection, and valued industry-university-research cooperation, continued to achieve fruitful innovation results, and continued to increase its innovation strength.

　　He pointed out that scientific and technological innovation requires long-term accumulation and shortcomings. Only by achieving "people without me, others with me fine" can they have a place in the international innovation chain.

　　"In the next 5 years, Lenovo will continue to promote the innovation of industry-university-research integration, and continue to explore quantum computing and brain-computer interfaces based on research fields such as equipment innovation, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, edge computing, supercomputing, 5G, and blockchain. , 6G and other frontier fields." Yang Yuanqing said.

　　"PC giant" is the label of Lenovo Group.

"New IT" leading company, advanced manufacturing benchmark company, "new infrastructure" core technology provider, typical representative of "double cycle" operation, global computing power leader...Lenovo hopes to have more new labels.

　　Yang Yuanqing said frankly that now "Made in China" has been deeply integrated into the global value chain and has a pivotal position.

In the new stage, Chinese enterprises should adopt a more open attitude and proactively integrate into the wave of globalization, realize internal and external market connectivity, share factor resources, stabilize and continuously upgrade the supply chain industry chain, and promote "Made in China" to the world. Mid-to-high end of the value chain.

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