The first ICT talent ecosystem white paper was released, and the technical talent gap reached 7.65 million last year

On August 8, Huawei, the China Software Industry Association, and the Information Technology Engineering Industry-University-Research Alliance held a press conference in Beijing with the theme of "Gathering Talent Ecosystem and Decoding the Intelligent Future". The three parties jointly released the "White Paper on China's ICT Talent Ecosystem" (hereinafter referred to as the White Paper). The White Paper*** comprehensively displays the changing context of talent demand in the information technology industry from the perspective of ecology, comprehensively explains the development trend of the information technology talent ecology in the process of enterprise digital transformation, and extracts the three key words of new momentum, new ecology, and new talents.

Build an open, shared, and win-win ICT talent ecosystem

Yang Wenchi, Vice President of Huawei EBG China and President of Huawei Ecosystem University, said: "Huawei has always been very aware of the important value of ICT talents, and has long paid attention to and continuously invested in ICT talent training. Over the past 30 years, Huawei has worked hard to turn manpower into talents, and shared the knowledge system and technical capabilities accumulated over the years, and continued to invest based on the long-term successful practices accumulated by the ICT industry."

Yang Wenchi, Vice President of Huawei EBG China and President of Huawei Ecological University, delivered a speech

Development trend of industry-university-research cooperation: Construction of "new engineering" breaks the ICT talent dilemma

Lv Weifeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China Software Industry Association and Vice Chairman of the Industry-University-Research Alliance of New Engineering in Information Technology, said: "We are deeply aware that in the new era, the development of information technology talents does face the problem of how to achieve balanced and adequate ecological development. Therefore, we have specifically discussed in the white paper how to ensure the adequate supply of information technology talents and how to solve the problem of talent dislocation... In the new era, the entire ICT talent training model, supply model, and development model have undergone fundamental changes from the traditional ICT era. In this fundamental change, how universities, enterprises, vocational training institutions, and basic education can interact to form a healthy and sustainable talent ecological supply is an urgent task we face."

Lv Weifeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China Software Industry Association and Vice Chairman of the Information Technology New Engineering Industry-University-Research Alliance, delivered a speech

Wang Junkai, deputy general manager of Jishi Information, pointed out in his interpretation of the White Paper that the overall talent demand gap in the information technology industry reached 7.65 million in 2017, showing two significant characteristics: huge talent demand and talent mismatch. In the future, 70% of the ICT talent demand gap will be concentrated in emerging fields such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, and will show the characteristics of diversified talent demand types and diversified demand structures. The White Paper analyzes that the ICT ecosystem with complementary capabilities and resource sharing is accelerating, and the connotation of ICT talents further highlights the "ecological characteristics."

Wang Junkai, Vice General Manager of CCSI, interprets the white paper

A roundtable forum with the theme of "My Views on the ICT Talent Ecosystem" was hosted by Mr. Chen Baoguo, Executive Vice Secretary-General of the China Software Industry Association and Deputy Secretary-General of the Information Technology New Engineering Industry-University-Research Alliance. The guests had an in-depth discussion on the current status, training models, and development trends of talent training in the ICT industry.

Yang Wenchi first talked about Huawei's original intention to establish the Ecological University: "In the enterprise market, Huawei needs to work closely with all parties in the industry, including the capabilities of partner solutions and the different roles of partners, such as investment and financing, processing design, consulting, etc., as well as the joint innovation between universities and us. In summary, the strategy for the enterprise market is platform plus ecology. The talent ecology helps the industry ecology. In March this year, we established Huawei Ecological University on the basis of the original ICT College and Partner University. We hope to use such an organization to fully connect with various tasks to improve the talent ecology. The output of this "China ICT Talent Ecosystem White Paper" is one of our work contents and one of the phased results. We look forward to more cooperation with the experts, industry-university-research institutions present in the future with the efforts of the Huawei Ecological University platform, and make more contributions to the construction of China's ICT talent ecology."

Wang Guoren, professor of the School of Computer Science at Beijing Institute of Technology and a Yangtze River Scholar, and Professor Ma Li, dean of the School of Computer Science at North China University of Technology, stated from the perspective of universities: In the future, universities will consider reforms from the top-level design and comprehensively optimize the engineering teaching model. It is necessary to focus on both basic theories and methods and cutting-edge applications and expansion. By strengthening industry-university cooperation and establishing a more diversified and personalized new engineering training model, it is possible to promote university students and related engineering and technical personnel to have higher innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities and cross-border integration capabilities.

From an industry perspective, Han Zhimin, Vice President of Lenovo Group and General Manager of Huawei Business Group, and Xu Shijun, Vice President of Taiji Computer Co., Ltd., said: Talent training in ICT companies must fully consider the characteristics of industry practices and corporate business characteristics, pay more attention to personal communication skills, comprehension skills, teamwork skills, etc., and create a long-term talent training mechanism based on corporate culture characteristics; at the same time, through school-enterprise cooperation, establish joint innovation laboratories and joint talent training with universities, accumulate core technologies, cultivate R&D experts, and continuously enrich the reserve business personnel resource pool.

At the end of the roundtable forum, the moderator concluded: Huawei is a benchmark for China's ICT industry. In the process of promoting its ecological environment, this kind of benchmark gradually shifts corporate needs to social responsibility, and through the industrial chain and ecological chain, technology overflows to society in large quantities. The popularization of this ecology is beneficial to improving the overall competitiveness of China's ICT industry and optimizing the industrial environment. This is Huawei's responsibility and also Huawei's responsibility.

My opinion on ICT talent ecology-Roundtable Forum

To practice the ICT talent ecosystem, Huawei also held a sailing ceremony for the Elite Oceangoing Ship at the conference, and invited guests to participate, implying that the ship carrying the elites of the ICT industry has set sail. Driven by a series of important events such as the Huawei Partner Elite Competition, Huawei Innovation Forum, and Huawei Ecological University Annual Conference, we will sail towards an excellent future together.

My Journey in ICT Talent Ecosystem - Elite Oceangoing Ship Sailing Ceremony

This time, the "China ICT Talent Ecosystem White Paper 2018", guided by the China Software Industry Association and the Information Technology New Engineering Industry-University-Research Alliance, supported by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., and written by Jishi Information, comprehensively shows the changes in talent demand in the ICT ecosystem and is an important achievement of the "Industry-University-Research" cooperation. Huawei's participation in it not only contributes to Huawei's best practices in ICT ecosystem construction, but also further conveys Huawei's firm attitude towards talent ecosystem construction. The launch of the "White Paper" is a beneficial attempt to study the development of industry talents, and it is also an improvement in the industry's thinking mode.

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