In recent years, the international situation has been turbulent, and it is urgent to have independent and controllable science and technology. As an important field of scientific and technological innovation, how can the information and innovation industry contribute to the high-quality development of China's economy? What are the remaining problems of localization substitution?
The reporter learned at the second China Information and Innovation Industry Conference held a few days ago that in the past two years, with the continuous expansion of the scale of China's digital economy, the dependence on information technology software and hardware in various fields has been deepened, and various information and innovation products have accelerated their penetration into the national economy and people's livelihood industries. At the same time, in the context of the national strategy of developing information innovation, the replacement tide of localized software and hardware has brought development opportunities to the information and innovation industry, and some experts said that for domestic manufacturers, the difficulty of localization replacement is not to replace from the point, but to consider ecological replacement.
Artificial intelligence is surging, and the trend of localization of computing power is expected to accelerate
Information innovation, that is, information technology application innovation industry. As one of the important levers of the digital economy, the information and innovation industry has been placed on high hopes since its birth. It can be said that the development of China's information and innovation industry is directly related to the prospects of national development, and if technological breakthroughs cannot be achieved, it will be difficult to find a place in the increasingly fierce international competition.
Recently, the generative AI storm set off by ChatGPT continues to ferment, is the emerging big language model a tool to promote productivity development, or can it open a "Pandora's box" that cannot be closed? In the face of immature artificial intelligence technology, should we wait and see or embrace it boldly?
Fu Shiguang, vice president of Jiuqi Software, believes that the use of AI in daily scenarios will help improve work and management efficiency; Kaidi Cloud CEO Huang Hua believes that the rational use of AI will turn AI into an efficiency improvement tool. When AI is really put into use, we should pay more attention to the brand safety of enterprises, and seek a way to effectively screen Internet information and monitor it in real time. Huang Dong, general manager of Lanling Software Guangdong Region, believes that the emergence of ChatGPT actually helped software users to carry out a popular science on AI, to some extent brought more demand for commercial application of language large models, and the thinking point of enterprises today should fall on how to use the ability of large models to build new application scenarios, and how to carry out commercial application possibilities, so as to create an application software that meets user needs and is easy for users to understand.
It is worth noting that under the continuous development of large models, the focus of ChatGPT's competition has gradually shifted to AI super computing power. Various multimodal large models have begun to be further integrated with scenarios, making the industry have a higher understanding of the importance of computing power, which will also become an important engine for the growth of digital economy.
According to the calculation of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, every 1 yuan invested in computing power will drive 3~4 yuan of economic output. In 2021, the scale of the mainland's computing power industry will reach 2.6 trillion yuan, directly and indirectly driving the total economic output of 2.2 trillion yuan and 8.2 trillion yuan respectively.
In addition, computing power, as a new productive force, is accelerating the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and constantly giving birth to new industries, new formats and new models. According to data from Yiou Think Tank, it is expected that the market size of the mainland's information and innovation industry will exceed 1.2 trillion yuan in 2023.
The explosive growth of computing power demand requires more independent computing. The landing of AI applications in the future is inseparable from the support of huge computing power. In this context, domestic manufacturers are accelerating their layout, and the trend of localization of computing power is accelerating. What are the remaining problems of localization substitution? Fu Shiguang, vice president of Jiuqi Software, said that at present, the foreign ecology has been relatively complete, for domestic manufacturers, the difficulty of localization replacement is not to replace from the point, but to consider ecological substitution, digital science popularization, information and innovation science popularization, the whole industry to form a consensus, unite to create a more perfect ecology.
The information and innovation industry has accelerated its penetration into the field of people's livelihood
Zhang Yi, CEO and chief analyst of iMedia Consulting Group, said that with the continuous expansion of the scale of China's digital economy, the dependence on information technology software and hardware in various fields has been deepening, providing a good economic foundation for the information and innovation industry. He analyzed that the scale of China's digital economy is expected to reach 70.8 trillion yuan in 2025. He pointed out that "the pilot application of information and innovation from the party and government fields will gradually accelerate its penetration into the national economy and people's livelihood industry from 2022 to 2023." ”
In fact, the information and innovation industry is huge and plays an indispensable role in the field of people's livelihood, covering eight important industries related to the national economy and people's livelihood, including finance, electric power, telecommunications, petroleum, transportation, education, medical care, and aerospace, as well as N consumer markets.
Taking the transportation field as an example, in the society where urban rail transit is becoming increasingly popular, when we enjoy the convenience of travel brought by high punctuality and fast speed of the subway, have we paid attention to the intelligent turnstiles at the entrances and exits and the management system for scanning codes or swiping cards to enter and exit? Their precision and intelligence are eye-catching, and behind them is a system called AFC (Automatic Fare Collection) to manage. AFC system is a system for automatic control and management of subway passenger ticketing and entry and exit stations, the main goal is to provide efficient, convenient and safe ticket management and entry and exit control to improve the operational efficiency and passenger experience of the subway system. Through automated ticket processing and entry and exit control, the AFC system reduces queue times, prevents fare evasion, and provides accurate ride data for statistical and planning purposes.
At present, China is the world's largest urban rail transit market. According to the Ministry of Transport, as of December 31, 2022, a total of 53 cities across the country have opened and operated 290 urban rail transit lines, with an operating mileage of 9,584 kilometers and 5,609 stations.
Based on the localization demand, more and more rail transit line network command systems choose the domestic database GBase database to replace the original Oracle database.
Shenzhen Line 14, which opened on October 28, 2022, uses the rail transit automatic ticket vending system (AFC), rail transit clearing system (ACC), rail transit multi-line central computer system (CLC), and Internet ticket management system all use the Nanda general GBase 8s database management system as the host database. Yang Shixuan, vice president and general manager of the South China marketing department of NTU, said at the conference that the company plans to replace the background database of all AFC systems of Shenzhen Metro with GBase 8s by the end of next year.
In addition to the transportation sector, the information and innovation industry also plays an indispensable role in other areas of people's livelihood. For example, China Great Wall Technology Group Co., Ltd. uses the self-developed and built cloud service platform to realize public security informatization and improve social governance capabilities through link tracking, log retrieval, fault location, problem early warning, and performance monitoring in the entire business system. At the same time, relevant technologies can also be applied to the reform of large central enterprises to help them achieve digital transformation.
No matter in which field, the smooth development and application of the core technology industry of information and innovation is inseparable from the network security equipment platform as a hardware carrier to ensure infrastructure security. iMedia data shows that of the 27 information and innovation industry support policies issued at the national level, 11 of the policy documents focus on "network security" and "information security", accounting for 40.74% of the total number of documents. In 2021, the State Council issued two policy documents, once again emphasizing the importance of cybersecurity and information security.
The rapid development of the information and innovation industry is exciting, but in the era of computing power, how should we deal with the increasingly serious cyber security problems? Lv Yanhui, vice president of Tianrongxin Technology Group, pointed out that the first thing to solve is the problem of compliance, but for the information and innovation industry, network security is not only to achieve compliance, but also to solve the problem of normalized security capacity building.
Written by: Ao Yi News reporter Guan Yuhui
Intern: Xin Yu