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○ Wang Lei’s team moved to the fourth floor of a building in China (Nanjing) Software Valley. The place is bright and clean, with meeting rooms, rest rooms and discussion Spaces all available. Although it is called a team, there are actually only six or seven people. It has a full “OPC” (One Person Company) style.
○ They are developing and improving a voice-based agent. Whether it is communication, meetings or other voice-based occasions, this agent can easily handle “voice-to-text” conversion and smooth out and structure the text in a very “smart” way.
○ Wang Lei’s team is just a small snapshot. This building is located in the “AI· Mirror World – Nanjing Artificial Intelligence Ecological Street” of China (Nanjing) Software Valley. It was officially opened recently. The planning includes 10 specialized parks and about 1 million square meters of industrial carriers, gathering nearly 100 core artificial intelligence enterprises.
○ Entering the “Zhineng · Workshop OPC Community” in the neighborhood, the individual entrepreneurship model of “one person +AI as a company” has become a reality here. With the collaborative support of AI, individual entrepreneurs can independently complete the entire business loop from product design, research and development, production, to market launch, user operation and customer service response.
01 Starting from software, it has laid a solid foundation for a trillion-yuan industry
○ Among the industrial genes of Yuhua, the word “software” is the most deeply rooted in people’s hearts. ○ Here is a road called “Software Avenue”, which is 5.3 kilometers long and has gathered hundreds of well-known software enterprises such as ZTE and Huawei.
○ In fact, Yuhua’s connection with software began in 1995. By chance, Mr. Hou Weigui, the founder and chairman of ZTE Corporation, happened to visit the Flower God Temple to enjoy the flowers. At that time, this place was still a “village” and was famous for its flowers. With flowers as the medium, ZTE has officially landed in Yuhua, and Huawei has also arrived. Other large and small IT companies and software companies are accelerating their convergence.
○ As a result, China (Nanjing) Software Valley, as the core carrier of Yuhua and Nanjing, occupies an important position in the national software industry map. Moreover, it has been constantly evolving and developing, giving rise to numerous emerging industries from software to digital technology, and has also produced “China’s first digital freight stock” Yunmanman.
○ There is also Yihui Information, whose SylixOS® large-scale industrial operating system has achieved a 100% rate of kernel and core component autonomy, breaking the long-term monopoly of foreign systems. In the past five years, the enterprise has undertaken more than twenty major national science and technology projects such as “Nuclear High-End Basic Software”, “Industrial Mother Machines”, “High-Speed Rail” and “Satellites”, and has served over 1,000 industrial users.
○ In addition, Unisplendour has settled in Nanjing. As the first listed intelligent operating system enterprise in China, its layout in the field of intelligent vehicles is leading the industry. Its vehicle operating system has been adopted by over 130 car manufacturers worldwide, and its business has grown by 100 times in 10 years.
○ On the one hand, Software Valley consolidates its advantageous industries such as communication and operation and maintenance services, Internet Plus, cloud computing and big data, and information security. On the other hand, it takes its advantageous industrial chain as the lead and continuously enhances the “gold” content, “data” content and “innovation” content of industrial development. These breakthroughs have not only accumulated a solid technological barrier for the software industry, but also become the “confidence” for its leap towards the high-end industry of artificial intelligence.
“02 AI Leading the Way, driving industrial transformation.
○ If software is the “start-up capital” of Yuhua, then artificial intelligence is its “ace card”. Here, AI is no longer a concept confined to the laboratory but a real productive force deeply integrated into industries and daily life.
○ At the exhibition center of “AI· Mirror World – Nanjing Artificial Intelligence Ecological Street”, AI clinics can quickly analyze medical data and provide suggestions, intelligent exoskeletons help people with mobility issues stand up again, and industrial intelligent agents achieve autonomous optimization of production lines… After all, artificial intelligence does not merely exist in the “abstract”, but is applied to reality, integrating with diverse application scenarios and becoming a part of people’s work and life.
○ Yuhuatai District, with “AI· Mirror World – Nanjing Artificial Intelligence Ecological Street” as its core carrier, has created an AI industry ecosystem integrating research and development, incubation and application. At present, the district has promoted the implementation of over 50 scenarios, including AI clinics, AI restaurants, and AI fire protection.
○ Behind this lies the precise policies and resource allocation of the local government. For instance, Yuhua has introduced a “5+1” special policy, investing 1 billion yuan annually to support technological breakthroughs, talent introduction and cultivation, as well as the promotion of scenarios. Huawei’s Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation Center, ZTE’s Intelligent Computing Innovation Center and other platforms have successively settled in, providing enterprises with full-chain services from technology research and development to scene implementation. AI innovation centers from universities such as Nanjing University and Southeast University have been signed and established. Industry leaders like SHEIN have brought resource empowerment from “cross-border e-commerce + industrial belts”, thus forming a virtuous cycle of “talent – technology – industry”.
03 Striving for a Trillion Yuan: The Evolution and Responsibility of Yuhua
○ By 2024, the scale of Nanjing’s software industry will exceed 870 billion yuan, ranking first in the province and among the top in the country. The grand goal of a trillion-yuan software industry cluster not only carries the dreams of all software professionals in Nanjing but also represents a “breakthrough move” in the city’s development. Facing opportunities such as the deep integration of the software industry and artificial intelligence, Nanjing is fully promoting 116 key artificial intelligence (software) projects, with a planned investment of over 170 billion yuan.
○ From “Software Valley” to “AI High Ground”, the evolution of Yuhua is the evolution of Nanjing’s industrial level. Its path reflects such a clear logic:
“Technological autonomy.” The independent operating system of Yihui Information and the AI large model vehicle-end application of Thundersoft have enabled Yuhua to gain a say in key areas.
“Scene scaling.” The implementation of scenarios such as AI clinics and smart cockpits has driven AI from “laboratories” to “production lines” and “living circles”.
Ecological synergy. The all-element support of the AI street enables enterprises, talents and capital to converge here, forming a closed loop.
The AI industry in Nanjing has entered a new stage of ecological development, and Software Valley is once again charging ahead in the most cutting-edge industries with the attitude of “starting with software and leading with AI”. The evolution of Yuhua is not only a leap in its own industry, but also a microcosm of Nanjing’s efforts to seize the commanding heights in the global AI competition. By reading about Yuhua, one can understand the industrial aspirations of a city.
