Original title: the election of the founder of Alibaba cloud as an academician of the Academy of engineering means an important change
What were you doing in 2009?
That year, Wang Jian's team knocked down the first line of Alibaba cloud code. Ten years later, Feitian system, which he presided over the research and development, became the only cloud operating system independently developed in China, and its market share ranked third in the world. November of this year is obviously a harvest season for Alibaba. Under the escort of Feitian system, tmall's "double 11" sales reached 268.4 billion. Another 11 days later, on November 22, the Chinese Academy of Engineering announced the results of the 2019 academician co election, and Wang Jian, founder of Alibaba cloud and chairman of Alibaba Technical Committee, was elected academician.
Ali may not be the only one excited about Wang Jian's election. At the beginning of the nomination of academicians this year, the China Association for science and technology clearly proposed for the first time to encourage the selection of academicians in grass-roots and private enterprises. Previously, more than 1000 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences mostly came from scientific research institutes and large state-owned enterprises within the system. Wang Jian's final election can be said to be the first person in a private enterprise and is also regarded as a major breakthrough in China's scientific and technological innovation evaluation system.
This means that private enterprises can not only contribute to GDP, taxes and jobs, but also their scientific research strength is becoming an important part of national scientific and technological capacity. This is undoubtedly a full affirmation of the weight of private enterprises in the national comprehensive strength. Private enterprises' own people 'are more firmly positioned. It is not difficult to understand that they are excited about it.
The election of Wang Jian of Ali as academician represents China's high affirmation of another market-oriented scientific and technological innovation model: Taking enterprises as the main body to practice independent innovation of core key technologies. Cloud computing is a typical case of using technology to promote various industries to open up a new situation.
It may be difficult for us technical idiots to understand what cloud computing is. But everyone knows that we can't live without it now. In the data age, cloud computing, like oil, water and electricity, has become the basis for the orderly operation of society. However, when Ali decided to invest heavily in cloud computing, the Internet industry has not formed a general consensus on this, and some bosses say it is too early. Even within Ali, quite a few people don't understand why they should invest so much money in a department that can't see benefit output for a long time. But at that time, Ma Yun and Wang Jian saw the importance of cloud computing from a higher station. " If all our information computing must pass through foreign systems, the future of China will be unimaginable. "
In fact, Ali can become the first batch of "private engines" on the national technological innovation train, which is the inevitable harvest of its continuous focus on technology for many years. Ali is not just a Wang Jian. More than a third of Ali's 38 partners are technical. Among the more than 100000 employees, more than 60000 are scientists and engineers, and the R & D personnel account for the first in China. At present, dozens of scientists in Ali have won academicians, top Association fellows and outstanding scientists, including more than 10 IEEE fellows and more than 30 professors from internationally renowned universities.
Wang Jian joined Alibaba in 2008 and founded Alibaba cloud in 2009. In the following ten years, Ali continued to invest in the field of science and technology. The Dharma Academy was established in 2017 and pingtouge was established in 2018. Ali is considered to be the Chinese science and technology company with the deepest thickness of scientific and technological talents. This time, Wang Jian was selected as an academician of the Academy of engineering, which once again explains that "fast money" may make an enterprise go fast, but only by deeply cultivating technological innovation and mastering the exclusive "formula" can it go steady and far. Such enterprises are bound to be recognized at the national level.
National scientific research, make full use of the advantages of a large country and concentrate on doing major events. The scientific research of private enterprises has a keen sense of smell and strong ability to transform achievements. It is a powerful supplement to the overall innovation system of the country. These two models complement each other. If the scientific and technological R & D of enterprises is a small KPI of China's scientific and technological innovation, the number of first-class commercial companies driven by technology and the effectiveness of using market mechanism to stimulate talent vitality are the big KPIs of China's scientific and technological innovation strength.
Throughout Ali's innovation history, we can also find the prominent application-oriented advantages of private enterprises in technological innovation.
Scientific and technological innovation can be roughly divided into basic science and applied science. The former is often difficult to produce practical benefits in the short term, which requires a large amount of long-term investment by the state. Because of the close relationship between applied science and social development, it directly reflects the market demand.
Private enterprises are the best soil for the combination of cutting-edge research and practice. They can quickly respond to market demand and promote the R & D of innovative technologies. This form of integration of production and research is the unique advantage of scientific and technological innovation in the era of digital economy. It has to be said that when the industry and the enterprise are not optimistic, it is Alibaba's decision-making mechanism that ensures that Ma Yun can make decisions with his insight that leads to today's Alibaba cloud. Ali's path is to seek the direction of scientific research guided by benefits and feed benefits back to scientific and technological innovation.
When Alibaba cloud became a big data service provider for 40% of China's top 500 enterprises, nearly half of listed companies and 80% of technology companies, they quickly targeted cloud computing applications in more ambitious scenarios. At present, Wang Jian has resigned from Alibaba cloud. Under the role of Alibaba technology pioneer, he is studying how to innovate the development path of the city with data resources. Who knows how many changes these technological gods will bring to our lives.
To become bigger and stronger, private enterprises need the support of the government in terms of policies and funds, but in the final analysis, they also need to rely on themselves to master the right of technological discourse. Private enterprises represented by Ali have become the backbone in the technical fields of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Their technical achievements have entered the national vision, which not only shows that China's scientific and technological innovation system is realizing structural upgrading, but also shows that private enterprises have a stronger impact on the national economy. Think of this, what are private entrepreneurs not confident?
In the year when China first encouraged private enterprises to run for academicians, the name Wang Jian is undoubtedly a strong certification of Alibaba's private enterprise scientific research model, and will certainly encourage more talents to participate in scientific and technological innovation in a market-oriented manner. Under this signal, the power of technological innovation of private enterprises is bound to be more sufficient. Then Wang Jian's election as academician will not be the only one of Ali, nor will it be the only one of China's private enterprises.