Interview With CPPCC Member And Baidu Inc Chairman Robin Li: Grasp The New Opportunities Of The "New Capital Construction" Of The Intelligent Economy

"We need to strengthen the construction of new infrastructure, develop a new generation of information networks, expand 5G applications, build charging piles, promote new energy vehicles, stimulate new consumer demand and help upgrade industries." With the first report on government work this year, "new infrastructure" has become a "new blue ocean".

The attention of the new infrastructure is rising, and the outside world is also looking at this area. When talking about the new infrastructure "tuyere", Robin Li, member of the CPPCC National Committee and chairman of the Baidu Inc, gave his own opinion to the twenty-first Century economic report.

"New infrastructure construction can not only create a large number of investment opportunities in the medium and short term, enhance the development of kinetic energy, but also accelerate the arrival of intelligent economy and the arrival of an intelligent society, and enhance the ability of human beings to deal with risks similar to uncertainties." Robin Li pointed out that "at the same time," new infrastructure "will also reduce the threshold of entrepreneurship, enhance the pace of innovation, boost production efficiency and become more elastic and bring more rich life to people.

In his view, private enterprises have great participation in the process of new capital construction. "Private enterprises should identify their own positions and actively innovate in new infrastructure. In the future, Baidu will continue to play a role as a platform company in the national "new infrastructure" strategy.

New infrastructure, new blue ocean

China is in the stage of rapid development of new industrialization, information technology, urbanization and agricultural modernization. The potential of investment demand is huge, which constitutes the fundamentals of China's economic development.

The new infrastructure has become a highlight. Data show that last year, China's 5G, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, industrial Internet, data center five new infrastructure investment in the field of more than 600 billion yuan, it is estimated that in the next five years, the total investment in five major fields will reach 10 trillion yuan, and promote the industrial chain upstream and downstream applications investment of nearly 50 trillion yuan value added.

In Robin Li's view, the intelligent economy driven by AI in the new infrastructure will become a new engine of economic development. "At present, the world is ushering in a new round of innovation dividend. In the new bonus period, artificial intelligence will have a wide and far-reaching impact on society, economy and life from three levels of human-machine interaction, infrastructure and industry application.

In fact, in the war epidemic process, the representative technology of the new infrastructure in the field of AI is brilliant. Intelligent algorithm reduces the RNA analysis time of new crown virus from 55 minutes to 27 seconds. The intelligent calling platform uses voice robot instead of manual labor, and the multi body temperature rapid detection solution is used in crowded places.

In addition, Robin Li pointed out that artificial intelligence has also reduced the technical threshold and improved the efficiency of governance, and accelerated the construction of smart cities in China. For example, Changsha, Baoding and Chongqing have begun to use the "intelligent transportation engine" to optimize urban traffic management.

At the same time, AI also enables more ordinary people to enjoy the convenience of technology and help to narrow the digital divide.

Robin Li gave two examples. Today, Shaanxi Hanzhoung Poverty Alleviation Office staff can accurately identify the most urgent needs of 2000 families from 200 thousand poor families through the deep learning technology of artificial intelligence, while the elderly living alone in the dhurrah community in Beijing are equipped with electric curtain rails, intelligent sockets, smart lights and so on. By interacting with smart speakers, they can switch electric curtains and adjust the air conditioning temperature. Degree.

"Practice has proved that the rapid development of Chinese science and technology, especially Internet technology in the past few years has accumulated tremendous resilience for the economy and society." Robin Li said, "at the same time, with the popularity of smart devices, both the elderly and children will be able to enjoy the better life of artificial intelligence in a more equal and convenient way in the future."

New opportunities for enterprises

In this year's government work report, for the first time, it did not propose the specific target of the annual economic growth. Instead, it actively guided all sectors to concentrate on "six stability" and "six guarantees", and put forward a new annual burden reduction of more than 2 trillion and 500 billion yuan for enterprises.

At the same time, the government's work report proposes that we should do well in the "two new priorities", especially in strengthening the construction of new infrastructure. "Smart economy will effectively help the country's" six stability "and" six guarantees "and other related work. It will bring new impetus to the recovery and development of the new crown pneumonia and become a new engine for economic steady growth and high quality development. Robin Li judged.

This constitutes an opportunity for domestic enterprises. In Robin Li's view, the new development opportunities given by industrial digitalization and digital industrialization can not be missed, and every enterprise needs to be grasped. He suggested that private enterprises should identify their own positions and actively innovate in the construction of new infrastructures.

However, Robin Li also pointed out that, considering the wide scope of the new infrastructure, we should give full play to the advantages of the Chinese system and make top-level design. "If the beard eyebrows are caught, it is very likely that every push is not fast enough."

As a matter of fact, there are still some problems in the new infrastructure construction of AI in China due to the fact that the national level has not yet been coordinated. For example, some enterprises in China have launched a deep learning platform. However, because of the high technical threshold, long cycle and large investment required to build the underlying platform, most enterprises have chosen the two way to develop on foreign platforms; AI chips have not yet been implemented in large-scale applications and mass production; users' enthusiasm for using the open platform of artificial intelligence needs to be improved; and the popularization of Intelligent Cloud. The rate is still relatively low.

Therefore, Robin Li suggested that China should first distinguish the importance of the new infrastructure and the corresponding level, so as to consider what areas to focus on.

In the process, Baidu will continue to play the role of platform based company. Taking the intelligent transportation as an example, the intelligent transportation infrastructure is an important integration infrastructure, which is embodied in the intelligent road, including the intelligent transportation of vehicles, roads and transportation. It will drive the traditional transportation to accelerate the transformation of intelligent transportation to digitalization, networking and automation, and then bring trillions of scale intelligent network and intelligent transportation new economy.

Baidu Apollo is the world's largest autonomous driving open platform and ecology, representing one of China's most powerful auto driving capabilities. Robin Li said that Apollo has now formed three open platforms: automatic driving, vehicle road coordination, and intelligent vehicle Union. In April this year, the Apollo "ACE traffic engine" has been released, which combines the automatic driving ecology and Baidu AI capability to fully empower urban traffic. Now it has landed in Beijing, Changsha, Baoding and other 10 cities.

"We have the largest manufacturing and application market in the world and the largest number of R & D personnel. These will create more and better application scenarios for the development of AI, accelerate the upgrading of manufacturing in China, achieve the transformation of new and old energy, and promote the Chinese people to take the lead in enjoying the benefits of intelligent economy and smart society." Robin Li pointed out.

(author: Southern finance and Economics National two sessions report group Yang Qingqing)

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