ZTE's sanction by the United States has risen to the topic of nationality, especially in the technological circle. There has been a wave of discussions. Among them, Tencent founder Ma Huateng and Jingdong founder Liu Qiang Dong have commented on different occasions.
Liu Qiangdong: ZTE Incident Hits All Faces of Chinese Internet Entrepreneurs
On April 22, Liu Qiang gave an opinion on the ZTE event when he was interviewed by CCTV at the first Digital China Construction Summit.
Liu Qiangdong stated that the ZTE incident has stunned all Internet entrepreneurs in China and all entrepreneurs in the IT industry. It is hoped that this slap will wake the whole Chinese company and realize that if we cannot control our core intellectual property rights, , Then the fate is in the hands of others.
Liu Qiangdong said that Jingdong’s road is the first to take the first application road. With application, there will be cash flow and gross profit, and then use their own profits to carry out rolling investment and stick to a relatively lonely road.
Because of the construction of core intellectual property and investment in technology, it will take a long time. There will be no profit in seven years, eight years, or even ten years. No income will be seen. All these will bring losses. 'But I think as a company Home, this is the bottom line we should stick to. 'Liu Qiang Dong said.
Ma Huateng: The new four major inventions are only applications, weak basic science
On May 26, at the “Future Forum X Shenzhen Summit”, Ma Huateng delivered a speech saying that the new Big Four inventions are only applications and China’s basic science is weak. He appealed that the government, research, production, research, and other parties work together to invest more resources. Do basic scientific research, including investment in information science, physics, materials, life sciences, etc., so as to have real strength.
He said that although the “new four major inventions” are now talking about mobile payments leading the world, in fact, this is still only the application of science and technology. Returning to basic scientific research, the foundation of China as a whole is still very weak.
In particular, the recent ZTE incident has made everyone realize that: With advanced mobile payment, no mobile terminals, no chips and operating systems, your competitiveness is not enough. Today's ZTE incident is being properly resolved, but We still cannot take it lightly. At this time, we must pay more attention to the study of basic disciplines.
In the past, everyone was more concerned with pragmatism, but after that, I think everyone is clear that we can no longer be lucky and we must devote more resources to basic scientific research. Future science awards and forums should be said to be timely. Very forward-looking. Two years ago, I didn't think that there was such a situation today, but today we have a lot of feelings.
I think that there are still many things to do to develop basic scientific research, including government, production, research, and other aspects that must all work together. Everyone often sees that doing basic research does not make money, is far away in the future, and it is very costly to invest in. Simple. A lot of people also asked companies like Tencent to ask what you should do as a technology company with a relatively large market value. Many people gave us suggestions. I was thinking about it recently. Many people said that you can’t go from chip to chip. Operating system, or do something from artificial intelligence to quantum computing?
In the past, we thought that this industry chain was far away from us. It was a bit far from software to do software and services. However, we actually did a lot of data centers, including clouds, and we have a lot of demand for servers, and even chips. Influential, that is to say, we can force the chip design industry to design for our services and needs. In particular, our application services are massive, and the scale of users is particularly large. This is the first time we can think of.
If we can intervene to support the research and development of some chips, it may be better. But this is frankly speaking, we may not be good at it. We may also need to rely on other forces in the industry chain to do this.
On the other hand, some people also mentioned suggestions. I remember Professor Rao Yi gave me suggestions. Many universities in the country have a great demand for talents for basic subjects. However, because many university funds are limited, they say that these companies in the industry include many Foundations, can these scientists who focus on some basic disciplines attract them to come back to the universities and fund them to do basic research? This idea also gave me great inspiration.
It was also suggested that we are subject to the chip and the operating system. Why is it subject to the operating system? Many applications and systems are incompatible with it. For example, on the mobile phone side, the share of Microsoft's operating system on the mobile phone is almost below 1%, because Many applications do not support it, and its share is small. Like WeChat previously had a mobile-end version of Windows, the share is too small to be developed, the less mobile applications are developed, and the Windows version is even more affordable. This is a Complementary process.
So we as an application developer, including the small programs we do in the application, if it is possible to directly support more services on domestic chips, once developed, can run on the whole domestic chips, including domestic operating systems Being able to run, I think there is a chance to solve many problems with OTT. This is also what the industry may expect from Tencent.
This matter is very forward-looking, it is not difficult, and it is possible to always make a spare tire. It can never be used. This is a very real problem, but I think it is worthwhile to have a spare tire now. There is no spare tire association. Forever being caught in the throat, this is a reflection.
Ma Yun: There are too few large companies with core technologies
Also on April 22, at the 'First Digital China Construction Summit', although Ma Yun did not mention the ZTE incident directly, he also expressed his views on the current level of China’s technological development. He said that it is true that large companies that really possess core technologies are too less.
He said that large companies must have big jobs, and today's big companies are not too many, but too few. The general secretary pointed out that the core technology is the country's leader. If you do not master the core technology, you are building on the walls of others. The house, growing vegetables in someone's yard. The core technology is difficult, but it is not unattainable. We missed yesterday's opportunity. We can no longer miss the opportunity of tomorrow. I think the real big companies do not look at the market value. But how big is it, not to see how big the market share is, but to see if it has mastered the core technology! The market share is not cattle, the core technology is the real cow, the key technology in the development of human progress, the core technology The breakthrough is the responsibility of big companies.
Today, China’s large Internet companies such as BAT are far from enough. China needs a large number of big companies and super companies that exceed BAT. Today’s Chinese Internet companies are numerous, small and beautiful, and full of vitality. They are the main force of innovation. However, there are actually too few large companies that really have core technology. If compared with the future, BAT is not too big, because big companies are not only large-scale, large-scale, and large-scale, but they have big responsibilities, and they play a bigger role. Big.
Many internet companies today compete for the market, compete for traffic, and compete for the amount of investment. The future should compete for technological innovation. Therefore, we must have a profound understanding of Internet companies. Not every startup company, every Internet company can do it. Big, not every big Internet company can be stronger. Enterprises are not measured by size, but measured by good or bad, measured by responsibility. China needs a large number of companies that can take on big tasks and can Technology and technology should lead in the direction that they should take, and can play a key role in key technologies, key areas, solutions to future problems, human development issues and international technological competition.