On September 25, ZTE Zhisheng Exhibition 2024 International Information and Communication Exhibition opened in Beijing. Communication ZTE took the theme of "integration of data and reality, wisdom and symbiosis", and Wang Wangqiang pushed It has brought innovative products and solutions in the field of "connectivity+computing power". At the same time, Wang Xiang, the chief strategic officer of ZTE, was invited to attend the conference "ICT High level Forum and China International Information and Communication Exhibition Opening Forum". The industry shared ZTE's integration of computing and network, and ZTE's smart development of digital and intelligent compatibility Wang Wangqiang's thinking and practice on the symbiosis of communication and smart networking.
Grasp the rhythm of ICT cycle, continue to speed up technology and base market
Wang Xiang said that from the perspective of the trend of the times, it has become a global consensus that the industry can sustain the development of the digital economy, and ZTE Smart has also played an important role in promoting the scale and proportion of the digital economy. Although the early progress is very fast, the current challenges are also faced. The first is to bridge the innovation gap. The penetration of industrial digitalization from early leading enterprises to ordinary enterprises in the middle and later stages is facing huge changes in demand positioning and value selection. For example, early leading enterprises pay more attention to the advancement and diversity of products, but ordinary enterprises in the middle and later stages pay more attention to cost and efficiency, which requires readjustment of product Positioning and market channels to bridge the gap. Secondly, we are crossing the investment cycle. At present, we are at the bottom of the Jugra cycle, and asset investment is at a low point, but the industry transformation is at a peak. This mismatch between the peak demand and the low investment has affected the difficulty and speed of crossing the gap; In addition, we also need to cross the scale inflection point. The intensification of the game between the East and the West has led to the regionalization of the global market, so that the products and services that could have been sold globally to share costs more quickly can only be limited to specific regions. The broad market segmentation has also reduced the size of the single market. These two reasons have hindered the realization of economies of scale in the industry, The combined effect of these factors has made it more difficult for us to cross the gap.
On how to deal with these challenges, he said that in general, the ICT industry is in the process of continuous innovation. Every upgrade and evolution of network, computing and other infrastructure will further deepen and expand new application scenarios, and in turn stimulate innovation, forming a cycle of iteration. For example, among the "sense, communication, computing and control" elements of the Internet of Things, perception and control are closer to the terminal, and its development is distributed, while network and computing power are centralized. Therefore, the big cycle of ICT industry development is closely linked to the development cycle of network, computing and use. In this process, our core strategy should be to "follow the trend", actively grasp the rhythm of the ICT industry cycle, accelerate the two wheel drive of technology and market, and implement relevant actions around the different stages of cycle change to cross the industry inflection point and open a new growth curve.
Create a new era of digital intelligence around the four dimensions of "network, computing, application and innovation"
Wang Xiang expounded from the four dimensions of network, computing, application and innovation respectively. He said that the "network" has solved the problem of information access. For example, in the early stage of 5G, the deployment of basic implementation was mainly completed. In the post 5G era, one direction is the popularization and application of 5G basic scenarios in the subdivided industries. The promotion is mainly from three aspects. First, starting with the terminals that have a large proportion of impact costs, To provide customers with hundreds of more economical industrial terminals by balancing and choosing the performance and cost of different industries; The second is to provide customers with more flexible network combination by combining multiple technologies of industrial field network rather than relying on a single technology; The third is to modularize the experience of thousands of cases in the past through the digital nebula development platform, empower industry partners, reduce the threshold of development access and improve the speed of development, so as to provide customers with faster application development.
Another direction in the post 5G era is to expand the scope of network use. ZTE has started the evolution of 5G-A, providing the industry's highest super 5Gbps link through stronger ubiquitous 10Gbps, more accurate synaesthesia integration to achieve sub meter level perception accuracy, and more extensive space space integration to achieve the comprehensive scheme of HAPS third plane+ATG+NTN, meeting the requirements of vertical domain Integrate application requirements such as class and hot class, so that more application scenarios can be realized.
From the perspective of "computing", the first thing to do is to solve the problem of basic network capabilities. With the continuous evolution of the network, computing power and network capabilities and cycles tend to be synchronized. Especially after the introduction of artificial intelligence, the balance between the network and computing power becomes more important. Due to the limited process, it is difficult to improve the single point computing power, so how to use the "network to strengthen computing" Improving the overall capacity of computing infrastructure will be the key to our stage. To this end, ZTE adheres to the core proposition of "network based computing", and is committed to building strong connectivity from multiple levels, including inter core, inter card, inter machine and inter DC. By promoting the connectivity of Olink, providing super large network switching and long-distance 400G transmission, it can build a multi-level and large-scale cluster network, Give full play to the ultimate efficiency of computing power and AI.
Secondly, it needs to solve the problem of integration of intelligent computing ecosystem to better serve the industry. On the one hand, ZTE makes devices and platforms consider compatible design through "soft and hard open decoupling", supports diversified computing power, and provides users with the best cost-effective computing service; On the other hand, in order to solve the problem of high cost of intelligent computing construction, turn more computing power into practical value, and promote business closed-loop, it is necessary to launch smaller equipment with simultaneous training and promotion. ZTE has launched AI all-in-one machine, which reduces the threshold of hardware access and quickly helps users build intelligent computing application systems; At the same time, it has created an intelligent computing scheme and framework of "training and pushing decoupling", promoted the componentization of capabilities, let "professional people do professional things", and jointly build a win-win industrial ecosystem; In addition, he also mentioned that in order to accelerate the popularization and application of AI in enterprises, we need to seize the key elements that have the greatest impact on enterprises, focus on key scenarios, and accelerate the realization of value. Taking ZTE as an example, ZTE is an innovative R&D enterprise. About 50% of its employees are R&D personnel, and more than 80% of R&D personnel are software personnel. In this case, how to quickly improve the efficiency of software developers has become the core appeal of the company. To this end, ZTE has created a nebula R&D model to help improve AI efficiency in the whole R&D process. At present, this model has helped the company improve its coding efficiency by 30% and overall R&D efficiency by 10%.
Finally, from the two dimensions of "use" and "creation", Wang Xiang believes that the essence of technological development is to better serve the industry and the public. On the one hand, the core purpose of infrastructure such as network and computing is to reduce hardware costs and improve hardware selectivity. But for the industry, how to better It is very important to develop a platform based on its own business process more quickly. For this reason, ZTE has refined thousands of cases accumulated in the earlier stage and formed corresponding templates, so that customers can quickly build their internal business processes through combination, and efficiently build their businesses.
On the other hand, the current integration of connectivity and computing power is gradually deepening. We need to constantly expand the capability boundary of "connectivity+computing power", and realize the two-way rush of technology+commerce with the dual wheel drive of 5G+AI. He especially mentioned the Nanjing Smart Binjiang 5G Factory built by ZTE, and said that the development and changes of the Binjiang Factory from 2019 to 2024 well reflected the continuous evolution of 5G and smart computing empowerment. Recently, ZTE Nanjing Binjiang Factory has become the first 5G factory in China to obtain the "five-star certification".
He also stressed that in order to support the iterative development of the industry, it is necessary to continue to promote the breakthrough of underlying core technologies and build a "hard base" for digital intelligence development. At present, Chinese society is also in the process of building the foundation from demographic dividend to engineer dividend, and upgrading to innovation dividend in the future. The most basic indicator to measure the change is the density of scientific research investment, that is, the proportion of R&D investment. For this reason, ZTE has always adhered to the pressure type investment in key basic technologies, especially in the cutting-edge core technologies that affect the pattern of industrial sustainable development. In 2023, ZTE's R&D investment of more than 20% will rank first among A-share large listed companies with 100 billion yuan.
In addition, in recent years, global attention to corporate ESG has significantly increased. ESG rating standards not only assess corporate performance in environmental, social and corporate governance, but also reflect investors' and society's expectations for corporate sustainability and social responsibility. He pointed out that ZTE has been committed to integrating the ESG concept into all aspects of corporate governance and operation to promote the harmonious coexistence of society, environment and stakeholders, He focused on ZTE's practice in green development: "Since 2019, ZTE has launched research in the field of low-carbon internally to promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in its own and external energy enabling industries. This year, the company stood out from more than 21000 outstanding companies in the world, took a leading position in the corporate transparency and climate change performance rating of the international environmental non-profit organization CDP, and was rated as the highest level of CDP in 2023,", It ranks among the top 2% of all participating companies in the world, and is also one of the only two enterprises in China that have obtained A-grade rating. "
At the end of the speech, Wang Xiang said that we are in a new era of digital intelligence. The deterministic trend of networking, intelligence and low-carbon is irreversible, but we also face the challenge of spanning cycles. To better adapt to changes in the economic, industrial and technological cycles, as "digital economic road builders", ZTE will adhere to the measures of "optimizing segmentation scenarios, expanding application boundaries, promoting network computing, building diversified computing power, building an open ecology, accelerating business closed-loop, adhering to bottom innovation, and achieving long-term development", and sincerely cooperate with customers, industry and ecological partners to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and jointly create a new era of digital intelligence.
