Daniel Zhang Yunqi Talks on Science and Technology Responsibility: To be a good technology that is open and shared for everyone to benefit

On October 19, the 2021 Yunqi Conference opened in Hangzhou, and Daniel Zhang, Chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group, said in his speech at the main forum that from the Internet of Everything to the growth of all things, the Yunqi Conference is standing at a new starting point after 12 years of reincarnation. Ali hopes to have more and more solid social responsibilities in basic research, so that more people can benefit from the development of technology.

Through a series of breakthroughs in hard-core technology, Alibaba is integrating into the overall situation of national science and technology development and striving to solve more problems of social concern. Daniel Zhang proposed in a speech with the theme of "Alibaba's Technology Responsibility and Responsibility", "To be a good technology that is open and shared and everyone benefits." ”

Daniel Zhang said, "Facing the future, cloud computing is the basic productive force of society. In the past ten years, Ali has actively invested in scientific and technological self-reliance, strived to explore the unknown, and moved to the bottom and forefront of science. We hope to solve the general problem first, and then work with industry partners and customers to solve personalized problems in a more open and ecological way, and finally form a multi-dimensional integrated inclusive ecology. ”

Technology not only creates business value, but also creates social value. Daniel Zhang believes that the social responsibility and social responsibility of science and technology must resonate with the pulse of social development, not only to pursue advanced technology, but also to think about how to share the fruits of the rapid development of science and technology with the whole society.

The Chinese classic Chongguang provides a new imagination for the protection and inheritance of ancient books in a digital way. The Tokyo Olympics were broadcast on the cloud for the first time, another technological leap after the 1964 Olympics entered the television era. Daniel Zhang believes that whether it is for ancient civilization or modern civilization, the open sharing of technology is the benefit of new productive forces and will benefit more people.

At the meeting, Daniel Zhang announced that Alibaba officially launched the "Youth Cloud Assistance Program", donating "cloud computer rooms" to 10,000 primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas to help improve the science and technology education of primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas, which is also another specific action of Alibaba to help common prosperity. In early September, Alibaba released the "Ten Actions to Promote Common Prosperity", including "increasing investment in science and technology and supporting digital construction in underdeveloped areas".

"Education thrives on technology, and the 'Youth Cloud Assistance Program' hopes to use cutting-edge digital technology to make the computers in the computer rooms of schools in underdeveloped areas 'never outdated', stimulate children's digital creativity earlier, and promote educational fairness with equality of tools." Daniel Zhang said.

Daniel Zhang also announced that Ali will continue to increase its support for basic scientific research. The gold prize of the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition will be raised to $50,000, and the scope of the prize will also be expanded. On the same day, Ali announced the list of 10 young scholars of the new Dharma Academy Green Orange Award. In the future, the number of rewards for the Green Orange Award will be increased to 30 people, and the prize pool will also be increased to 30 million yuan.

"We hope that more young people will not only become beneficiaries of technology, but also become contributors to technology, inclusive of technology, evangelists of technology." Daniel Zhang said.

The Green Orange Award is the earliest public welfare academic appraisal in the industry to discover young Chinese scholars. This year's Green Orange Award was awarded for the first time to the contributors of major national scientific and technological tasks, and 10 outstanding young scholars no more than 35 years old, such as Zhu Feihu, Wei Dongyi, and Lu Yingying, were awarded. At the scene, Yang Mengfei, Chang Jin, Zhou Chenghu, Fan Wenfei and other academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences presented awards to the winners of the 2021 Green Orange Award.