On March 14, 2018, Jiangsu Economic News published a full-page special report on the election of Zhang Zhen, chairman of Yunchuang Big Data, as "Top Ten Outstanding Entrepreneurs in Nanjing's Real Economy", entitled "Zhang Zhen: The Big Data Picture Scroll of the Gentle Goddess". The selection of the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs in the real economy of Nanjing was organized by the Jiangsu Economic Newspaper of Xinhua Newspaper Media Group, and after layers of selection by the department, the research of the organizing committee, and the public vote, the top 10 outstanding entrepreneurs were finally selected among the 32 candidates. Among them, after fierce network selection, Chairman Zhang Zhen ranked second with a high support rate of 56.95%, and successfully ranked among the top ten outstanding entrepreneurs in Nanjing's real economy.
Zhang Zhen, Master of Business Administration of University of Science and Technology Beijing, is currently the chairman of Yunchuang Big Data Company, and also a representative of the 16th People's Congress of Nanjing, serving as a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of Nanjing Qinhuai District, vice chairman of the Qinhuai District Federation of Industry and Commerce, director of the Big Data Branch of the China Information Association, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Enterprise Confederation, director of the Jiangsu Entrepreneurs Association, director of the Jiangsu Federation of Industrial Economics, and editorial board member of the Editorial Board of Jiangsu Standardization. He has won many awards such as "Science and Technology Entrepreneur", "Top Ten Economic Figures of Entrepreneurship in Nanjing", "2015 Female Entrepreneurial Star of Suzhou Businessmen", "The Most Beautiful Entrepreneurial and Innovative Figure in Nanjing", "2017 Nanjing Mayor Quality Award (Individual) Nomination Award", "333 Project" Third-level Young and Middle-aged Technology Leader and "Nanjing May Day Labor Medal".
In her early years, Ms. Zhang Zhen created a leader in the new field of dynamic translation - Nanjing Moon Software Co., Ltd., and the "instant Chineseization expert" software developed by Ms. Zhang Zhen created a new field of dynamic translation, ranking in the top three of the national general software sales list for four years. Following the MBA of the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Zhang Zhen founded Yunchuang Big Data in 2011, and led Yunchuang to grow rapidly in just a few years, and Yunchuang was also awarded the "Deloitte - Jiangsu High-tech High-tech Top 30" for its high growth rate, and was officially listed on the New Third Board in December 2015.
The following is the full text of "Zhang Zhen: The Big Data Picture Scroll of the Gentle Goddess":
First met in 2012, chatted in 2015, time to 2018, the reporter interviewed the same female entrepreneur for the third time - Zhang Zhen, the "leader" of Nanjing Yunchuang Big Data Technology Co., Ltd. And every time we meet, it's a surprise.
In the first interview with Zhang Zhen, she said that the small partners she promised to work together would one day share the results of the listing together. When I chatted with her again for the second time, I learned that cloud creation is a rising star in cloud computing, and has been favored by Intel, Microsoft, Lenovo and other IT giants, holding hands to carry out strategic cooperation. At the end of that year, although it was in the initial period of less than 5 years of establishment, the company was officially listed on the New Third Board, ushering in another milestone and a new starting point in its development history. This time, she said that in the face of the gap in China's big data talents, Yunchuang entered the field of education, built a big data experiment platform, helped train college teachers, and helped the development of the big data industry.
Nowadays, Yunchuang Big Data has become one of the enterprises with a complete big data product line in the world, and in view of the explosive growth of big data demand, it has developed four core product lines of cstor cloud storage, cproc cloud processing, cvideo cloud video, and ctrans cloud transmission with independent intellectual property rights, and each product line is eye-catching. "Our goal is to use innovation in the field of high technology to create more value for society and contribute to shaping China's corporate image." A long black hair was draped softly on Zhang Zhen's shoulders like a waterfall, and after saying this, she revealed a "goddess" smile. God seems to be extra attentive to the woman in front of her, and there is only gentleness and elegance on her good face, and there is no trace of age in sight, and she is born beautiful and fertile, which is probably like this.
Corporate DNA: Doing great things with smart people
After several years of development, the area of the cloud founding public space has developed from the original three or four hundred square meters to nearly three thousand square meters today, the number of employees has increased from the first few people to 150 people, and the company name has also been changed from "Nanjing Yunchuang Storage Technology Co., Ltd." to "Nanjing Yunchuang Big Data Technology Co., Ltd.", but the phrase "do wonderful things with smart people" is posted at the entrance of the company, the conference room, and the exhibition hall.
"Don't let go of every shining point of employees", in Zhang Zhen's view, she is practicing the most basic concept since she founded Yunchuang, "There is no reason not to believe them, the development speed of Yunchuang is the proof of our team." "This is the first meeting, Zhang Zhen said to reporters. Today, she still insists on this sentence, but the scope of "smart people" has expanded again, that is, to find like-minded "friends" to "play" happily.
"For Yunchuang, it is important to develop as many partnerships as possible and work with partners." Zhang Zhen once said, "This stunned me and my friends. As early as the beginning of the establishment of Yunchuang, when it was known that Zhang Zhen found Intel, Microsoft, Lenovo and other IT technology giants-level "small partners", many people could not believe, why choose a start-up company like Yunchuang to cooperate? In this regard, Zhang Zhen is full of confidence, "We have our own distinct positioning, which can make up for the gap in their product line and let partners recognize you as a valuable company." ”
"Because there are many categories of IT product lines, although every large company has a wide coverage, there is always some space in some emerging categories, and this part of the space gives companies like us the opportunity to cooperate with them." Zhang Zhen continued, "For the construction of an ecological circle, of course they choose to be stronger in this field. Our products include many product lines such as cloud computing databases, cloud video, cloud transmission and cloud environmental protection, and have been well recognized by partners in the process of cooperation. "Now, Yunchuang has cooperated with well-known enterprises and institutions such as Intel, Tencent, Inspur, Nanjing Tower, etc., and its products have been widely distributed in more than 10 fields such as environmental protection, earthquake, public security, education, radio and television, etc., with more than 200 successful cases. In February 2017, Yunchuang was selected by Tencent, one of the three giants of the Internet bat, as its smart city partner for the new year.
Zhang Zhen spoke at the launch of the cloud storage all-in-one machine based on intel architecture
Superior corporate governance depends on culture, medium-sized companies rely on systems, and inferior companies rely on relatives and friends. Corporate culture is the DNA of enterprise development, which determines the character and destiny of the company. It is the boss who determines the company's undefeated, and the factor that determines the success of the company is the employee. As the old saying goes, there are clouds, things are clustered, and people are grouped. Your pattern directly determines what kind of employees will gather around you.
From beginning to end, the corporate culture of Yunchuang led by Zhang Zhen is to "do wonderful things with smart people". "Coming to Yunchuang is to get to the place to do wonderful things with smart people, that is, to have the opportunity to do wonderful things with smart people, and to enjoy the process of doing wonderful things with smart people." We hope that in the future, with the joint efforts of all of us, Yunchuang will become a high-tech enterprise integrating R&D and product sales in the fields of big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cloud storage technology. She said with a smile.
For enterprise management, Zhang Zhen said bluntly, "Management is a combination of scientific and artistic, scientific everyone can learn through books, and artistry depends on personal understanding." According to Zhang Zhen, Yunchuang's employees are generally not old, and the overall atmosphere is democratic and harmonious, valuing both the display of individual ability and the collaboration between employees. In this open and inclusive working atmosphere, interns can also undertake practical projects as long as they have the ability.
Zhang Zhen said that he hopes that the style of Yunchuang people is that everyone focuses on doing a good job in itself, less internal friction and disputes. Unlike many enterprises, Yunchuang does not exclude people with personalities: you are fat and thin, you are tall and short, you are humorous and I am serious, you are bright and deep, and it does not matter. Here, there is no hierarchical hierarchical relationship, we only need to have one thing in common, that is, the love of work, are all team members who are moving towards the same goal. If you encounter any problems, you can communicate directly with the manager or her, and they will also give practical advice and advice, whether it is an old colleague who has been working for several years or an intern who has just joined the job. Because of this, Yunchuang's employee base is often very active, whether it is exchanging work, contacting feelings or pure fighting competitions, everyone can always make the atmosphere hot.
From storage to environmental protection: Serious technology makes the environment better
In recent years, "smog" is becoming a word that people complain about a lot at the moment. In the face of an unoptimistic air environment, "let Yunchuang make a big fist in the environmental protection industry." The clever Zhang Zhen had a new idea and decided to use yunchuang's cloud computing and big data advantages to develop a new generation of environmental protection products.
"Due to cost reasons, there are very few sites in large and medium-sized urban environmental monitoring centers, and the environmental monitoring data can reflect the overall air quality of the city from the macro level, but it cannot reflect the quality of the air quality in the local area and specific area from the micro level, which requires the construction of more environmental monitoring sites and provide more real-time environmental monitoring data." Zhang Zhen's investigation found that a foreign pm2.5 environmental monitoring system is priced at 100,000 US dollars, and the domestic price is 100,000 to 500,000 yuan, which is expensive, and each set of equipment needs to be placed in a room, thus greatly restricting its use.
To this end, as a "action faction" Zhang Zhen, with the belief of "doing things to the extreme", and small partners to overcome technical problems, and finally independently developed a pm2.5 cloud monitoring platform, each monitoring point is only one-tenth of the price of similar foreign products, as long as the street lights, poles can be hung to complete the deployment, relying on solar power supply, the use of relatively high precision imported sensors to collect data, through the gprs to collect data in real time to deploy the data cube cloud computing database data center. On the cloud computing platform, the air pollution status of the entire city can be presented in real time, the pollution process is dynamically tracked, and the public has the ability to query the pm2.5 situation around the public through the terminal. The inexpensive PM2.5 environmental monitoring system complements the monitoring methods of the current traditional monitoring sites to meet the environmental needs of the public.
Subsequently, Zhang Zhen's team launched the "My pm2.5" app. "This app can not only query the real-time pm2.5 data of the user's current location, but also keep abreast of the pm2.5 values of other cities like querying the weather conditions, and give corresponding health tips." Zhang Zhen introduced that before we travel to another city, we will check the local weather conditions in advance, and now, the pm2.5 index of each city can also be checked at will.
Following the pm2.5 cloud detection platform, Zhang Zhen led Yunchuang to launch the environmental cat indoor air quality monitor and the six-factor environmental monitor. Through high-precision sensors, environmental cats collect and display air quality data such as formaldehyde, pm2.5, temperature and humidity in real time, provide indoor and outdoor air quality comparison reference, and provide suggestions for whether to open windows or switch air purifiers. At the same time, by connecting with the app, it is also possible to remotely monitor changes in air quality in the home.
In addition, the environmental cat also provides earthquake early warning function. When an earthquake occurs, using the principle that the radio wave propagates faster than the seismic wave, with the help of the environmental cat and its app, through real-time calculation of big data, a whistle warning is issued in the first ten seconds to tens of seconds before the seismic wave reaches, reminding the users in the earthquake area to evacuate in time to reduce casualties and secondary injuries (this function will be put into use after approval by the China Earthquake Administration).
The six-factor environmental monitor launched last year applies high-precision sensors to widely collect air quality data such as pm10, pm2.5, co, no2, o3, so2, temperature, humidity, etc., and transmits it to the big data cloud platform for real-time storage, analysis and processing, so as to accurately present the air pollution status of the entire region. In the future, the large-scale and low-cost grid deployment of six-factor environmental monitors will provide a reference for dynamic tracking and treatment of pollution processes.
Zhang Zhen once mentioned to reporters that he hopes to become an environmental data service company in the future. At present, this dream has long been rooted and embodied as an open platform for environmental big data - environmental cloud, through the large-scale deployment of various sensors, real-time perception of the environment, api sharing of various types of data related to the environment, support a variety of applications. At present, The Environment Cloud has served 2,475 registered users, provided 487 million call interfaces, and included 810 million pieces of environmental data.
All along, Zhang Zhen has insisted on innovation and creation, all the company's products are independent research and development, and even the basic code has independent intellectual property rights. This kind of persistence is actually not easy, but Zhang Zhen said that only in this way can we make products that belong to Chinese. Now only cloud environmental protection products, Yunchuang has 10 varieties, for the family, government and other different needs.
Greeting the new outlet: the cultivation of big data and artificial intelligence talents is imminent
Zhang Zhen believes that with the explosion of pan-Internet data from smartphones and social networks, accompanied by a large number of sensor acquisitions and the continuous growth of professional data in various industries, the current total amount of data can double every 18 months, and big data has become a natural resource and a key factor used by all walks of life to solve various challenging problems. In fact, the vigorous development of cloud computing and big data has ushered in new opportunities for artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence does not only mean a robot that can play chess, from calculators on mobile phones to drones, driverless cars, from medical care, education and even more major changes that may change the world in the future, artificial intelligence can change everyone's life, but also can subvert our world.
The world needs outstanding big data and artificial intelligence talents to further unlock the potential of machine computing and machine learning technologies. "In the era of cloud computing and big data, society urgently needs relevant talents, and universities lack platforms, talents, and experience!" Zhang Zhen said bluntly that in the next 5-10 years, the average annual growth rate of China's big data market will exceed 30%, and the talent gap will exceed 1.5 million people, while the computer graduates of the big data talent base will only be more than 200,000 people per year.
Since 2015, the Ministry of Education has set up a new undergraduate major of "Data Science and Big Data Technology" to cultivate big data talents, and as of last year, in addition to the 35 universities that have been approved, 263 colleges and universities have been applied for in 2017, and a total of 208 vocational colleges have been approved for the "Big Data Technology and Application" specialty major, and more colleges and universities will join it in the future. However, the lack of experienced teachers, the weak basic experimental environment, and the immature curriculum system make the big data major a common problem faced by these universities.
"If you build a cloud-based lab, teachers and students can do some practical tests on it, master this technology in the future to do better research or employment." Zhang Zhen believes that in the teaching of big data, in addition to theoretical learning, the support of experimental conditions is particularly important, and it is necessary to use distributed applications to connect a large number of computers and need massive data support, which cannot be found in the existing teaching system.
In this regard, Yunchuang not only has technical advantages, but also talent advantages, why not give greater effect to this resource? In 2017, based on the advantages of big data, Yunchuang actively responded to the call of the Ministry of Education, conscientiously prepared for the industry-research cooperation collaborative education project, and a total of 18 cooperation projects were held from the two categories of "teaching content and curriculum system reform project" and "practical condition construction project", and the professional direction mainly covered the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, mobile Internet, network engineering and other aspects.
"Our company's president Liu Peng is a 'technology fanatic', with 17 years of research accumulation in the field of big data and cloud computing, and is currently the president of Nanjing Big Data Research Institute, the vice president of the Big Data Branch of the China Information Association, and on January 10, he was elected as the director of the Artificial Intelligence Expert Committee of the China Big Data Application Alliance." Our teachers all returned from the United States, including large enterprise engineers who worked in the United States for 16 years, as well as engineers who participated in cloud computing architecture and research and development in 2009. In fact, we trained cloud computing teachers back in 2010. For the talent advantage of Yunchuang, Yang Zhenyu, project director of Yunchuang, can hardly suppress his pride.
Since the end of 2016, we have held many free training courses on big data in colleges and universities/higher vocational/middle vocational schools in Nanjing, based on "Big Data", "Big Data Experiment Manual" and the big data experiment platform (bd.cstor.cn provided by Yunchuang Big Data), with a small number of machine virtual large experimental clusters, supporting a large number of users to experiment online at the same time, and the experimental environment is isolated from each other and does not interfere with each other, thus helping the teachers present to run through hadoop, spark and other big data experiments, so that they have crossed over" From theory to practice, from knowing to using" threshold. In May 2017, we also held a free workshop for big data teachers from thousands of colleges and universities across the country to discuss the road to the cultivation of big data talents.
As Liu Peng, president of Yunchuang Big Data, said, based on the positioning needs of different schools, the teaching of big data will be differentiated according to the differences between higher vocational colleges and undergraduate colleges. "Vocational colleges and universities are more inclined to technical and skill training, the theory is mainly enough, and students will mainly engage in data cleaning and operation and maintenance work." The practical teaching of undergraduate colleges and universities should be more systematic, biased towards the application of new technologies such as deep learning and big data visualization, and have higher requirements for engineering practice capabilities. ”
In addition to the cultivation of big data talents, in 2017, Yunchuang also concentrated its efforts in the field of artificial intelligence, launched an artificial intelligence big data experiment platform that can create an experimental environment with one click, supported multiple people online experiments at the same time with docker technology, and equipped with experimental manuals and experimental data, synchronously solving the problems of difficult configuration of artificial intelligence experiments, difficulty in experimental entry, and lack of experimental data. At the end of 2017, Yunchuang once again independently developed an artificial intelligence server, which can be used by universities to carry out deep learning and experimental big data courses with the help of this server or deep learning all-in-one machine, and at present, Tsinghua University, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University and other universities have purchased.
When it comes to the future, this intelligent woman has a different picture blueprint - "big data products are a new category, and now everyone is in the process of rapid expansion, who seizes this market first, who will have more opportunities." We hope that through our step-by-step efforts, We can make Yunchuang bigger and stronger, and make it a classic and legend. This is the dream I have worked tirelessly for. Jiangsu Economic Daily reporter Zhu Mengdi
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