On December 31, 2024, the 22nd China International Software Cooperation Fair was successfully held in Chengdu. The event was co-sponsored by Chengdu Municipal People's Government, Sichuan Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, with the theme of "New ecology, new vitality, new pattern", to build a high-end platform for industrial cooperation and exchange, attracting many domestic and foreign academicians and experts and representatives of leading enterprises, research institutes and industry associations to gather in Chengdu to discuss the new trend of software industry development. Efficient allocation of resources, while carrying out the software industry chain upstream and downstream, left and right bank accurate docking at the same time, a series of cooperation and negotiation results were born.
During the event, Zhai Gang, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Economic and Information Department of Sichuan Province, said that Sichuan will actively play the role of Chengdu, promote the digital transformation of traditional industries and the construction of modern industrial systems in the province, promote the software industry to "do better and stronger", and promote the accelerated development of new quality productivity. Xu Xingguo, deputy mayor of Chengdu Government and member of the Party Group, pointed out in his speech that Chengdu will fully integrate into the strategic layout of the national and provincial software industry, grasp the opportunities of The Times, improve the business environment, and build Chengdu into an important research and development base and benchmark city of the international software industry. Peng LAN, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the University of Electronic Science and Technology, said that it will take the initiative to undertake the era of independent training of innovative talents, continue to promote the deep integration of production, university and research, and accelerate the high-quality and conformal development of the software industry.
Efficient allocation of resources
The list of opportunities, typical enterprises and product catalogues were both released, and a number of major projects were signed
Since the establishment of the China International Software Cooperation Fair in 2003, the main business income of Chengdu software industry has increased from 6.6 billion yuan to 706.3 billion yuan in 2023, an increase of more than 100 times. In the assessment of China's software cities in 2023, Chengdu ranked 6th among the 14 Chinese software cities in the country, ranked first in the central and western regions, and ranked 4th among sub-provincial cities. A number of new enterprises have risen rapidly, a number of famous software products have been rapidly produced, the open-source ecology of domestic software has been rapidly conceived, and important breakthroughs have been made in key technologies and common technologies.
Focusing on the five key software fields of industrial software, basic software, embedded software, industry application software, and emerging platform software, the soft consultation conference released the "Chengdu Software Industry Opportunity List", a total of 435 industrial demand information, involving a total of 2.09 billion yuan of project investment and financing; The "2024 Chengdu Software and Information Service Cluster Typical Enterprises and Product Catalog" was released, including 60 typical enterprises and 60 typical products, and recommended typical enterprises and products of Chengdu software industry to the majority of industry application customers.
With the precise docking and efficient allocation of industrial resources inside and outside the city, Chengdu has facilitated a series of software industry project cooperation. Under the witness of provincial and municipal leaders and important guests, 13 major projects in the software industry were signed. In addition, through this soft consultation, all parties in the industrial chain achieved accurate docking, and a series of cooperation and negotiation results were born, with a total amount of 6.8 billion yuan signed during the event, and more than 34.86 billion yuan signed for key projects in the software industry throughout the year.
Extensive pooling of wisdom and strength
Experts at home and abroad discussed cutting-edge software technologies and explored industrial innovation and development paths
This soft consultation meeting gathered representatives of well-known software enterprises at home and abroad, scene users, universities and institutes, professional parks, financial institutions and industry think tanks to conduct in-depth discussions and cooperation on cutting-edge technologies and industrial innovation and development paths.
With the deepening of the "Belt and Road" Initiative, Chengdu's location advantage has become more prominent. In order to promote software enterprises in Chengdu, central and western China and even the whole country to actively participate in international competition and cooperation, explore broader market space and unlimited business opportunities, promote independent research and development and innovation in the software field, and promote industrial chain upgrading and technological breakthroughs, Valentin Makarov, chairman of the Russian Software Industry Association, was invited to the event. Chairman Makarov highlighted the unique advantages of China and Russia and looked forward to the potential innovation cooperation opportunities in the software industry of the two countries through "Cooperation with China: the Status and Path to Achieving Technological Independence of BRICS +".
In the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, it is necessary to gather wisdom and strength extensively and lead industrial development with top-level design. During the event, Ren Fuji, academician of the European Academy of Sciences, academician of the Japanese Academy of Engineering, academician of the Japanese Engineering Association, and professor of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, described the future production mode of "natural person + robot + digital person" and the development trend of hardware to software, and emphasized the important role of invisible "intelligent software" around "the era of intelligence that is more valuable than the visible".
Qin Hailin, chief engineer of China Electronics and Information Industry Development Institute, pointed out in the interpretation of "Software enables New industrialization" that software is a key force leading industrial innovation and development and increasing momentum for new industrialization, a core engine to promote the digital intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry and improve the quality and efficiency of new industrialization, and a necessary basis for coping with major risks and challenges and ensuring safety for new industrialization. .
Zhou Ping, chief engineer of the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, gave a professional research and judgment on the status quo and trend of the development of the domestic and global software industry through the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" Thinking on the high-quality development of China's software industry. The security of software supply chain and other aspects give the thinking about the high-quality development of software industry in the future.
Under the intellectual traction of domestic and foreign experts, the participants carried out in-depth exchanges in their respective fields in the following docking links and actively explored new opportunities for industrial cooperation.
Industry leader traction, strong government support
To promote the integrated development of large, small and medium-sized enterprises
In the process of software industry development, the chain master enterprises in the core and leading position of the industrial chain have strong resource integration ability, and promote the coordinated development of the entire industrial chain by building an industrial ecology with itself as the core. The government set up a platform, Tencent, Huawei, Ali, and other industrial chain leading enterprises, chain master enterprise representatives have been with potential partners for innovation opportunities in the field of segmentation.
Focusing on "Tencent Enlightenment to Explore the Frontier of Artificial Intelligence", Lin Xia, general manager of Tencent Chengdu Company, shared Tencent's innovative practice and application of talent cultivation and scientific research in universities and industries with the help of the domestic independent research and development of AI multi-agent development and research platform, relying on the "learning competition research and production" development system.
Around the "Promoting industry scene Innovation to Build Hongmeng Ecological Future", Li Yanju, Vice minister of Huawei OpenHarmony Enabling Department, issued a cooperation initiative for ecological sharing, open cooperation, government, industry, research and use to promote the application and development of Hongmeng ecological industry in various industries for domestic and foreign representatives.
Based on the "Adhere to Open source and Prosperity of AI innovation ecology", Li Jiping, vice president of strategic development of Ali Cloud Intelligence Group, proposed that open source and open ecology determine the prosperity of large model applications, and all parties should actively participate in global competition, cultivate talents, establish and prosper the ecology, and promote the development of "open source + artificial intelligence".
As representatives of innovative enterprises, Kaos, Chengdu Jingrong Joint Venture, Chengdu Tianao TT&C and other enterprises have also conducted in-depth exchanges and opportunities with industry chain partners in the industrial Internet to help the development of new industrialization and innovation, software-defined satellites, promote the development of commercial aerospace, focus on enterprise development problems, and crack the challenges of digital transformation.
At the same time, Zheng Yuying, a member of the Party group and deputy director of the Digital Economy Bureau of Chengdu High-tech Zone, the first software industry base in the country, demonstrated its strong support for enterprises in terms of carriers, talents, funds, scenes and so on, as well as the special + full life cycle policy system in the field of digital economy through "Digital economy Industry Promotion".
This soft consultation will be set up according to the "3+3" mode, from the three dimensions of urban cooperation, ecological cooperation and industrial cooperation, set up 10 cooperation negotiations, and special investment, scene experience, brand promotion and other three supporting activities, a total of 13 activities. Among them, the Scene Experience exhibition, as a highlight of this soft fair, explained the leapfrog development of Chengdu software industry for more than 20 years from four dimensions of new technology, new products, new scenes and new ecology, focused on showing the fruitful results achieved by the software industry, and took this as a window to promote the upstream and downstream of the industry chain, left and right bank innovation cooperation, and enhance and expand the brand influence of "Chengdu Software".
The China International Fair for Software Cooperation will continue to build a high-end platform for industrial cooperation, negotiation and exchange, jointly create a new ecology, create new vitality and build a new pattern, gather new strength for the development of the software industry in Chengdu, the central and western regions and even the whole country, and help Chengdu move from the national advanced manufacturing cluster of software and information services to a world-class cluster.
