Live coverage of the 2018 Yunnan-Huawei Software Industry Summit: Accelerating software growth and empowering the digital economy

[51CTO.com original article] From December 20th to 21st, the 2018 Yunnan-Huawei Software Industry Summit was successfully held in Kunming. More than 1,500 government leaders and experts and scholars in the field of software AI industry and industry elites were invited to attend this event. They discussed how to expand and strengthen the software industry and help the digital economy take off under the trend of intelligence around the theme of "Cloud Intelligence Software, Shared Future". The 4,800 square meter exhibition hall outside the main venue of the conference not only displayed the most cutting-edge and advanced application results of the domestic software industry, but also attracted a large number of elite participants to stop and negotiate with exhibitors.

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As we all know, Yunnan is located at the intersection of national strategies such as the "Belt and Road" and the "Yangtze River Economic Belt". It is an important strategic gateway for the country to open up to South Asia and Southeast Asia. Kunming has developed into a regional international center city based in the southwest, facing the whole country, and radiating South Asia and Southeast Asia. In order to achieve a gorgeous transformation from the end to the front and the edge to the hub, Yunnan Province regards informatization and the information industry as a new engine for leapfrog development. Huawei and its many partners across the country are determined to become the new driving force of the new engine, using the vigorous vitality of the software industry to promote the development of digital information in Yunnan.

Huawei gradually opens up its software development capabilities to help industry upgrade

Yang Ruikai, President of Huawei's Government and Enterprise Cloud and President of Digital Government Business Unit, shared Huawei's exploration and progress in the software field. He pointed out that from the perspective of global development, the new generation of information technology with software as the core has promoted the rapid development of the digital economy. The intelligent era is coming, and software-defined everything is becoming a reality. Software strength has become one of the three comprehensive capabilities of a country or a region's information industry strength. At present, China's economy is shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development. It is a critical period for optimizing structure and transforming new momentum. It is urgent to give full play to the basic, supporting and leading role of software in the high-quality development of the economy. The new era calls for the rapid improvement of China's software industry strength.

In this era, Huawei is gradually opening up its software development capabilities to help the industry improve rapidly. According to reporters, as early as 1999, Huawei established its first R&D center in Bangalore, India and passed the CMMI Level 5 certification. In contrast, 20 years later, there are still many software companies in China that have not passed the certification.

"Based on Huawei's 31 years of R&D practice and Huawei's development tools, Huawei is willing to contribute its experience and achievements. This is Huawei's software development cloud service." Yang Ruikai introduced that, to date, Huawei has provided assistance to nearly 100 companies, more than 30 universities and many vocational schools in Kunming, providing effective support for local people's innovation and entrepreneurship. This year, the "Deepening Strategic Cooperation" was signed again with the Kunming Municipal Government. In the future, in addition to the software development cloud, in-depth cooperation will be carried out in industrial cloud, Yunnan Province's big data, including artificial intelligence, smart cities, and safe Yunnan. "Huawei will continue to introduce Huawei's technology, services, platforms and upstream and downstream partners to Kunming, Yunnan, and strive to help Kunming and Yunnan's software industry develop better and faster, making the city of spring smarter and more intelligent, and allowing high technology to bring better experience and sense of gain to the people."

Seize the opportunities of software industry and embrace new changes

If Yang Ruikai's views on the development of the software industry represent the thinking of many domestic companies, then the speech of Shang Chao, director of the Information Technology and Software Service Industry Department and the Software Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, is more from the top-level design. Shang Chao said that Huawei's understanding of the software industry is very good. Today, the digital economy with software and data as the key driving force and elements is booming and is becoming an important force in promoting economic and social development and changes in production and lifestyle. "To this end, we will focus on five aspects of work." Shang Chao said that first, it is necessary to do a good job in top-level design, adhere to problem orientation, promote the introduction of national-level policies and measures to support the high-quality development of the software industry, and urgently solve the bottleneck problems that restrict industrial development; second, implement major projects, comprehensively promote major software applications and system layout, accelerate the filling of shortcomings and expand advantages; third, protect intellectual property rights, fourth, strengthen talent training in many aspects, and fifth, strengthen international exchanges in the fields of technical standards and policies, deepen the "Belt and Road" cooperation, and enhance the level of international development.

After Shang Chao elaborated on the many directions that the government will guide the software industry in the future, Chen Baoguo, executive vice secretary-general of the China Software Industry Association, shared his views on the development trend of the software industry. As soon as he came on stage, he said frankly that software is the real driving force of intelligence. With software as a carrier, it is becoming the driving force and driving force for the transformation of the traditional economy to the digital economy. He pointed out that software is the engineering weapon of human knowledge. Since the best manifestation of human knowledge is that it can be copied with zero boundaries, why can't software be? According to statistics, there are nearly 12,000 software engineers writing code every day in China, and there are a lot of duplicate codes. Huawei, based on its own huge software systems, puts them on the software cloud and opens them up for everyone to use. This is the best knowledge of efficiency, dispersion and reuse. "In the future, personalized customization and standardized modules will coexist, and small and medium-sized enterprises will also become the mainstream of the software industry. The innovation of development mode, behavior mode, organizational mode and usage mode brought by open source will be an important development direction of future software." Chen Baoguo believes that in this field, Huawei has been at the forefront of China. "The cooperation between Huawei and the Yunnan Provincial Government will be the starting point and important point for the Yunnan Provincial Government to actively build future infrastructure."

Policy interpretation and trend judgment are of course inseparable from implementation. Zhang Qixun, a teacher at the School of Software and Microelectronics of Peking University, revealed that in recent years, the School of Software and Microelectronics of Peking University has been trying to cultivate new software talents with Huawei. He gave an example. There was a software practice course. In the past, because there was no final exam, the final total score was provided by the students' usual grades and project scores. However, through Huawei DevCloud's one-stop software development platform, open source tools can be used to build a platform in the classroom for students to practice and practice, and use an agile approach to develop a real project case. In addition, students are required to put the final results on the cloud platform so that others can really use them. The project acceptance of the university will also require the number of users, daily average activity, etc., which is a disguised requirement for students to understand software development. In this way, students can apply what they have learned, and after entering society, they will better understand the needs of enterprises and become real talents.

Yunnan Province and Huawei jointly issued a proposal to be a witness and a participant

At the conference, thousands of guests also witnessed the release ceremony of the Yunnan Software Industry Cooperation Initiative, the awarding ceremony of the Yunnan Software Information Industry Park, the unveiling ceremony of the Yunnan-Huawei Joint Innovation Center, the launch ceremony of Kunming Huawei Soft Cloud, the signing ceremony of deepening cooperation between Kunming and Huawei, and the signing ceremony of software industry cooperation. The leaders of the Yunnan Provincial Government and Huawei also jointly issued an initiative to the majority of enterprises:

First, we actively support and respond to Yunnan Province's action plan for win-win cooperation and jointly building a new highland for China's multilingual software industry facing South Asia and Southeast Asia, actively participate in the construction of radiation centers, and promote the development of regional software and information technology service industries.

Second, actively support and participate in promoting the construction of regional cooperation infrastructure connectivity, and jointly promote the construction of information and communication infrastructure such as international hubs, conference centers, data centers, domestic data centers, and logistics data centers.

Third, jointly participate in the construction of various regional Internet application platforms, accelerate the development of international Internet content, digital content, software and information services, and promote the development of regional Internet business;

Fourth, actively support Yunnan in building multilingual software and translation R&D platforms for South Asia and Southeast Asia, improve language processing capabilities, and use Yunnan as a test area for new scenarios and new technologies;

Fifth, actively guide industrial cooperation, work with ecological partners to promote the ecological construction of multilingual and software industries, introduce outstanding companies to settle in Yunnan, and jointly create an atmosphere for the development of multilingual software industries.

From industry insights to industry cooperation, policy releases, and business launches, this summit fully demonstrated Kunming, Yunnan Province's determination to develop the software industry. I believe that under the promotion of Huawei, all companies will work together to inject new impetus into the development of Kunming's software industry, create new advantages, and Yunnan Province's industrial development will surely reach a new level.

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