Build a solid foundation for the digital future

Unleash the digital potential to enhance the value of the industrial chain

E-commerce companies are "first movers" in integrating digital infrastructure. Zhou Ming, vice president of Alibaba Group, shared Alibaba's practical experience in integrating digital infrastructure - e-commerce companies have already used data to predict customers' consumption tendencies, and warehouse goods in advance to facilitate rapid delivery after customers place orders. Zhou Ming pointed out: "In recent years, traditional enterprises have also begun to collect data, calculate data and adjust parameters in all aspects of production to improve the yield."

The construction of data infrastructure in the energy industry has promoted the digital transformation of the energy industry and the high-quality development of the green and low-carbon energy industry. Wang Hai, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Zhongneng Integrated Smart Technology Co., LTD., said: "In the energy industry, the situation of digital infrastructure construction is more serious. It is suggested that industry standards or national standards should be established as soon as possible in terms of data classification, data index system construction, platform connectivity, and some adaptation of SaaS applications, which will help better promote the development of the data industry."

Data is a new factor of production. For businesses, the trading and sharing of data is important. Wang Hai hopes that the next step can promote the construction of standards from the whole link and process of energy data confirmation, pricing, admission, circulation, evaluation, trading, supervision and credit, and also hopes to explore the path of energy data resource, capital and capitalization, and explore the establishment of some new standards for multi-win energy data circulation and trading.

"But at the moment, our entire digital infrastructure is relatively weak and far from intelligent infrastructure." Zhou Ming analyzed, "Digital infrastructure is still an isolated 'information chimney', resulting in no common data. There are still barriers to digital or intelligent computing, which is expensive to build and low utilization."

The construction of digital infrastructure is inseparable from the hand in hand of upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and the cooperation of government, industry, universities and research institutes to fully release the digital potential, maximize the value of the industrial chain, and create a new ecological environment for industrial win-win.

Build a strong digital base to enjoy intelligent life

In the industrial field, artificial intelligence can help enterprises to detect industrial defects, improve production efficiency and reduce production costs. In the field of security, face recognition technology can provide fast and convenient biometric identity authentication information; In the field of art, AI writing and AI painting are hot, and artificial intelligence has become a "creative aid" for paintings, audio, text and other information.

Artificial intelligence is now an indispensable part of the digital infrastructure, and plays the role of the "strongest brain" in the entire digital infrastructure system. Its penetration into our daily life is in all aspects, and the application scenarios of artificial intelligence can be seen everywhere.

In recent years, China's digitalization process has been greatly accelerated due to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Jiang Xing, chief architect of Cisco Greater China, said that in the digital era, mobile applications and cloud applications are becoming the core of enterprises, the walls of enterprises are dying, mixed office has become the new normal, and the new Internet is becoming the backbone network of enterprises.

"Artificial intelligence can provide intelligent analysis to help various industries reduce costs and increase efficiency. At the same time, the AI industry itself is becoming more and more infrastructure oriented." Tian Tian, CEO of Beijing Ruilai Intelligent Technology Co., LTD., analyzed the role of artificial intelligence in the integration and collaboration of digital infrastructure.

To start the "digital smart future", it is necessary to consolidate the foundation of the digital economy with "multiple points, wide range, high station and complete supporting facilities", and promote the interconnection and innovative development of digital infrastructure. Zhang Yunfei, chief scientist of Tencent intelligent transportation, said: "The construction of digital China in the future has put forward higher requirements and challenges for us, and we can build the digital base well, and management is the first step."