(Meng Wanzhou, Rotating Chairman of Huawei)
Entering 2023, the new AI represented by the big language model has opened up a new global understanding of digital productivity: Economists at Goldman Sachs Group believe that generative AI such as ChatGPT may eventually increase the global annual GDP within 10 years 7% (nearly 7 trillion U.S. dollars), and global productivity increased by 1.5%. The big language model and productive AI are the results of the "big master" of digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and AI after years of development.
It is precisely because of the accumulation of quantitative changes of various digital technologies that, when combined together, they have triggered a qualitative change in digitalization—digital technologies represented by cloud, big data, and AI have entered the social economy and life on a large scale, triggering production. Significant changes in lifestyles and new demands bring about a new round of economic upswing. Today, the digital economy has accounted for more than 40% of China's GDP, and will pass the 50% mark by 2025, entering a period of comprehensive expansion of the digital economy.
In the next two years, we will move from unleashing digital productivity to a leap in digital productivity. At the 2023 Huawei Analyst Conference, Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's rotating chairman, said that "digitalization" is the trend with the highest degree of consensus and the highest certainty at present. Digitalization has become a common topic for more and more countries, enterprises and organizations. Technology will drive productivity from "quantitative change to qualitative change" and gradually become the core engine of economic development. It is time to jump digital productivity.
At the "singularity" moment of digital technology, Huawei expressed its will and confidence to overcome the qualitative change of digitalization and comprehensively improve the new theme of digital productivity.
digital transformation
Today, we are entering a period of qualitative change in digitalization. New-generation digital technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and industrial Internet have successively completed the accumulation of quantitative changes, reached the stage of fusion and integration innovation and entered the stage of collective qualitative change. And this qualitative change is being combined in both explicit and implicit ways, triggering the "singularity" evolution of digital technology and bringing about a leap in personal and corporate productivity.
The so-called "singularity" of technology is the point at which technological growth becomes irreversible, leading to systemic changes in society. ChatGPT is an ultra-large-scale direction of artificial intelligence technology in recent years. By adopting 175 billion parameters, a "supercomputer" based on ultra-large-scale cloud computing and a pre-training data set of up to 45TB, it has brought "intelligent emergence" to the whole society. .
And on the hidden level that cannot be experienced and realized by individuals, that is, the digitalization of enterprises and industries, is also experiencing a "singularity" moment. At present, the total number of 5G base stations in China accounts for more than 60% of the world, and the systematic construction of the industrial Internet has entered the world's first echelon. The level of government affairs development ranks among the top in the world. The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology pointed out that with the accelerated evolution and upgrading of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet, systematic changes have taken place in the economy and society.
We are at the intersection stage of the "singularity" of explicit and implicit digital technology, which is triggering a qualitative change in digitalization: digital technology integrating PC, Internet, cloud, big data, AI, etc., is becoming the next general-purpose technology, Drive the fourth industrial revolution to cross the inflection point and pull the second growth curve of the social economy. In February 2023, the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China" was released, marking a systematic change in the leadership of the economy and society at the national level.
Boost digital productivity
In the period of qualitative change in digitalization, Huawei proposed an upgrade of the theme of the times from releasing digital productivity to leaping digital productivity. In the past, digital technologies such as cloud, big data, and artificial intelligence have grown from scratch, from small to large, and gradually popularized computing power at the whole society to release digital productivity; in the future, digital technology companies represented by Huawei will promote cloud, The ultra-large-scale development of digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence technology has triggered a leap in digital productivity and brought about systematic changes in the economy and society.
Today, Huawei has launched full-stack products to build a solid digital base, investing in digital components such as connectivity, computing, storage, and cloud, to provide enterprises and industries with a "quadrupole" with a minimalist architecture, extremely high quality, extremely low cost, and excellent experience. "The base has laid a solid foundation for the leap in digital productivity.
In terms of connection, for individuals and families, Huawei works with operators to provide customers with full-scenario ultra-broadband connection experience of 5G gigabit, optical fiber gigabit, and Wi-Fi gigabit; for government and enterprises, Huawei and partners work together to provide customers with Ubiquitous ultra-broadband, deterministic experience, and ultra-automated full-scenario intelligent connection solutions enable digital transformation of industries.
In terms of computing, Huawei has built the Kunpeng computing industry for general computing and the Ascend AI computing industry for artificial intelligence, working with partners to promote industrial development and accelerate ecological prosperity. Huawei has also cooperated with the Open Atom Open Source Foundation to build open source communities such as openEuler and openHarmony, and further enhance industrial digital capabilities through open source software.
In terms of storage, Huawei's data storage, as a unified base for all applications, can meet the various needs of enterprises for hybrid multi-cloud and upward support for cloud-native applications. Huawei's OceanStor storage products have entered more than 150 countries and regions around the world, widely serving operators , finance, government, energy, medical, manufacturing, transportation and other industries with more than 18,000 customers.
In terms of cloud, HUAWEI CLOUD has launched more than 240 services, and its cloud service capabilities continue to improve. In 2022, HUAWEI CLOUD released KooVerse, a global storage and computing network with a unified architecture. By the end of 2022, HUAWEI CLOUD KooVerse has covered 75 availability zones in 29 geographic regions, providing services to customers in more than 170 countries and regions around the world. HUAWEI CLOUD also continues to cultivate the three major AI technologies of pre-training large models, AI solvers, and knowledge computing in the AI field, accelerating the deep integration of AI and industries.
Huawei has the most comprehensive technical elements in the ICT field, and is also strengthening the collaborative innovation of various technical elements, opening the door to a leap in digital productivity. In terms of large connections, Huawei actively participates in the definition of 5.5G, which will support the network capabilities of 100 billion Internet of Things and 10 Gigabit experience in the future. In terms of large computing, HUAWEI CLOUD's Pangu large-scale model continues to innovate, and has successively launched large-scale models such as drug molecules, weather, and ocean waves. Huawei actively promotes the popularization of computing power, making computing power as accessible as water and electricity, and can be used on demand. Focusing on multiple scenarios and diverse computing power needs, Huawei continues to improve general computing power and artificial intelligence computing capabilities.
Digital transformation is not only a common opportunity for the entire industry, but also a common challenge. During this process, Huawei worked with partners to promote digital transformation. Huawei continues to deepen cooperation with industry organizations, and through open hardware and open source software, it will prosper the industrial ecosystem and allow more partners and developers to participate in the innovation of digital products and solutions. Huawei adheres to the principles of taking interests as the bond, integrity as the basis, and rules as the guarantee, and increases investment in partners. At the same time, Huawei continues to cultivate digital talents. Through the ICT Academy, ICT Skills Competition, and the Seeds of the Future 2.0 program, it provides schools with the latest digital teaching cases, provides students with the most advanced digital practice opportunities, and helps industries cultivate future digital talents. .
It is worth mentioning that through open cooperation, Huawei jointly explores the frontiers of science and technology, fosters academic circles, and cultivates talents for the leap in digital productivity. In 2022, the Huangdanian Chasiwu website will be officially launched, attracting more than 120,000 users including professors and experts, abstracting industry and industry problems into scientific problems, and publicly releasing them to the whole society in the form of "problem revealing" to explore scientific and technological cooperation new model of .
Industrial Upgrading: Total Factor Productivity Growth
The role of the leap in digital productivity is mainly reflected in industrial upgrading, especially the improvement of total factor productivity. Experts believe that to promote high-quality development, we must first increase total factor productivity. At present, China's total factor productivity is only 40% of that of the United States, 63% of Japan, and about 44% of Germany. Therefore, it is urgent to make every effort to improve total factor productivity. In order to improve total factor productivity, digital technology needs to be extensively and deeply integrated with enterprise business and industrial production network, fundamentally changing the operation mode of the industry and providing value to customers, and reshaping the mode of economic growth.
Huawei believes that the digital transformation paths of each industry and organization are different, and the most advanced technology may not always be the best solution. In the most reasonable mode, at the most appropriate time, the most needed scenarios are given, so as to realize the true integration of digital technology with enterprise business and industrial production network.
Huawei has gone deep into thousands of industries, promoted digital transformation, and made digital technology a real productivity—creating more than 100 scenario-based solutions, covering smart cities, finance, transportation, energy, manufacturing, education, medical care, the Internet, and small and medium-sized enterprises and other fields. In order to better meet customer needs, Huawei has also established legions for finance, mining, government affairs, electric power, transportation (airports, railways, highways, water transportation, ports) and other fields, building independent professional teams to understand the needs and problems of various industries , using Huawei's technology and capabilities to work with partners to create solutions that meet industry needs.
In addition to extensively using digital technology to improve the total factor productivity of various industries, Huawei also summarizes its own digital transformation experience and exports it to the outside world. As a non-digital native company, Huawei has restructured its business with digital methods, digital thinking, and capabilities through a series of management changes, and has carried out digital transformation in R&D, manufacturing, sales, delivery, and finance. In the continuous transformation, Huawei has also greatly improved its capabilities.
Huawei believes that the digital transformation strategy is the foundation, data governance is the foundation, and data intelligence is the direction. The digitization of operations, digital platformization, platform intelligence, and intelligent combat are the specific practical experience of Huawei's digital transformation——operation digitization and digital platformization make data clean, transparent, and aggregated, which is the basis of transformation; platform intelligence , Intelligent actual combat, making data on-demand, easy to understand, and useful. This is the deepening of digital transformation, thereby converting data into productivity.
First of all, in order to improve total factor productivity, digitalization is driven by strategy, not by technology. Digital transformation is a "top-level project". Business process transformation is driven by strategy, and technology serves the goal. The essence of digitalization is strategic choice and strategic planning, and successful digital transformation is driven by strategy, not technology.
Secondly, data governance is the foundation of digital transformation. Only through the scientific governance of data, the flow of data within the enterprise and the collection of data of different dimensions can create new value. In the process of data governance, it embodies the digitization of operations and digital platformization. Today, most of Huawei's business data and financial data have entered the lake. Business and finance share the same set of data sources in real time, and based on the same set of data sources, applications are extended, developed, and iterated according to their own needs. Data is becoming a productive force.
For example, before the digital transformation, in the process of Huawei's external payment, it took several days for various payment documents to be transferred to the finance department, and it took several days for the finance department to review the documents before starting the matching payment. Now Huawei's IT system In the document link, it can be automatically integrated and fully checked and identified, and multi-dimensional data can realize automatic matching at the minute level, which greatly improves the efficiency of the entire chain of payment operations.
Third, on the basis of data governance, data intelligence is the direction of transformation. That is, on the basis of high-quality data, the application of AI further transforms data and information into knowledge and actions.
For example, Huawei's financial organization has carried out structured, explicit, and integrated "three modernizations" management around financial knowledge, and gradually built a high-precision financial knowledge map. So far, Huawei's financial knowledge graph has included more than 11 million entities and more than 22 million relationship graphs, realizing the digital storage, management, and inheritance of financial professional knowledge. Through the knowledge map, knowledge islands can be eliminated, and employees can efficiently search and consult knowledge. When employees face problems, as long as they use knowledge graph technology, they can automatically find rules and get answers anytime and anywhere.
Another example is the automatic scheduling of Huawei production lines. Huawei's manufacturing system has to process hundreds of millions of orders and schedule production every year. In the past, it mainly relied on business rules and manual experience. Due to the different experiences, different starting points, different thinking points, and different logics of the production schedulers, resource conflicts, waste of resources, and so on were often caused. Order delays etc. Now, manufacturing elements such as workshops, line bodies, equipment, and processes have basically been digitized. Combined with scientific scheduling theory, production scheduling models for various scenarios have been built to realize automatic production scheduling and greatly improve production scheduling efficiency.
Of course, in the process of moving towards a smart world, no one can be left behind. Huawei attaches great importance to inclusive development, and continues to promote the TECH4ALL digital inclusion initiative, so that everyone can enjoy the convenience of digital life. As of 2022, Huawei's education projects have been implemented in more than 600 schools around the world, benefiting more than 220,000 teachers, students, and teenagers; about 4.4 million visually impaired users and more than 800,000 hearing-impaired users use the barrier-free features of Huawei terminals every month. functions and enjoy the convenience brought by technology.
[Summary of the full text] Today, when the global economy is facing huge challenges, the future of digitalization is extremely broad. Digital technology systems such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things have become new general-purpose technologies that have fully entered all aspects of the economy and society. Looking forward to 2030, the total number of global connections will exceed 200 billion. Enterprise network access, home broadband access, and personal wireless access will usher in the era of 10G connections. General-purpose computing power will increase by 10 times, and artificial intelligence computing power will increase 500 times... It can be said that the qualitative change in digitalization has already occurred, and the jump in digital productivity is at the right time. With the joint efforts of Huawei and its partners, it will open the second growth curve for the global economy, promote the real arrival of the fourth industrial revolution, and accelerate the march towards the intelligent world 2030. (Text/Ning Chuan)