On September 11, the establishment of the Xiaomi Group Science and Technology Association and the awarding ceremony of the academician expert workstation were held at Xiaomi Science and Technology Park in Beijing.
Ding Wenhua, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Yin Hao, member of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Association for Science and Technology, Shen Jie, Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Vice Chairman of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, Zeng Xuezhong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Senior Vice President of Xiaomi Group, Qu Heng, Vice President of Xiaomi Group and Chairman of the Association for Science and Technology Attend events and deliver speeches. Deng Fan, deputy director of the Enterprise Service Center of the China Association for Science and Technology, Meng Fanxing, member of the leading party group and vice chairman of the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, Li Zhenkun, member of the leading party group and vice chairman of the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce, and relevant representatives from the Haidian District Association for Science and Technology, Zhongguancun Science City Management Committee, and Xiaomi Group Attend events.
The event was hosted by Wang Haihua, Vice President of Public Affairs of Xiaomi Group and Vice Chairman of the Association for Science and Technology. Qu Heng issued a letter of appointment as an academician to Academician Ding Wenhua. Xiaomi Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Beijing Society of Engineers and announced the opening of the 2023 Technology Carnival.
Yin Hao emphasized in his speech that the establishment of the Xiaomi Group Science and Technology Association reflects the high importance Xiaomi Group executives attach to technological innovation. It is expected that the Xiaomi Group Science and Technology Association will closely follow the theme of the times, improve service efficiency, and effectively play the role of bridge and link. Maintain and enhance the political, progressive and mass nature of the Association for Science and Technology, vigorously promote the spirit of scientists, and cultivate a culture of innovation. We must persist in building platforms, mechanisms, and ecosystems, actively provide conditions for scientific and technological talents to innovate, create, and start businesses, and strive to build a warm and trustworthy home for scientific and technological workers. Adhere to the "four orientations", guide scientific and technological workers to carry out key core technology research, and strengthen basic and cutting-edge research and achievement transformation. Make full use of resource advantages and vigorously popularize scientific knowledge. We need to expand open cooperation and jointly create a globally competitive open innovation ecosystem.
Shen Jie pointed out that the establishment of the Xiaomi Group Science and Technology Association is an important result of the implementation of the strategic cooperation agreement between the Beijing Association for Science and Technology and the Beijing Federation of Industry and Commerce. It is an important step for both parties to jointly strengthen the scientific and technological innovation and talent cultivation of private enterprises and serve the construction of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center. measures. It is hoped that Xiaomi Science and Technology Association will actively perform the "four services" functions of the Science and Technology Association after its establishment. Strengthen political leadership and vigorously promote the spirit of scientists, entrepreneurship and engineering culture. It is the primary responsibility to serve all scientific and technological workers in the enterprise and cultivate first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams. Strengthen organizational connectivity, link innovative resources such as societies and universities, and create an open innovation ecosystem. Participate in socialized collaborative science popularization and the construction of the "City of Science and Technology Museums" to promote the popularization of scientific and technological innovation results.
Zeng Xuezhong mentioned that the establishment of the Enterprise Science and Technology Association is an important milestone in Xiaomi's development process. In the next 5 to 10 years, Xiaomi will strive to become a world technology giant. The Group's Science and Technology Association will further mobilize the enthusiasm of all Xiaomi's scientific and technological workers, consolidate the foundation of technical work, and truly play the role of "science and technology are the primary productive forces".
"Xiaomi's technology research and development layout has entered 12 technical fields, with an overall number of subdivisions reaching 99." Qu Heng introduced the development of Xiaomi Group's technology strategy, specifically mentioning that in terms of artificial intelligence, Xiaomi has self-developed a full range of AI capability maps and open source Frameworks and tools, technical capabilities have covered vision, acoustics, speech, NLP, knowledge graphs, machine learning, large models, multi-modality and many other directions.
Academician Ding Wenhua pointed out that in the field of imaging technology represented by mobile phone imaging, Xiaomi has achieved a major breakthrough in the miniaturization of optical lenses and is an industry leader. Xiaomi has taken the lead in establishing the Beijing Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Image Processing, and hopes to strive to upgrade it to a national engineering research center in the future to better play a leading role in demonstration. He said that he was very honored to be the first academician to join the Xiaomi Academician Expert Workstation, and looked forward to working with the Xiaomi team of technology workers to carry out key technological research and promote industry development.
Before the event, participants visited the Xiaomi Technology Park exhibition hall to experience the latest technology products in the field of consumer electronics.
