This device shocked Americans!

The mountains change with the situation, the water changes with the times, and the logistics changes with the times! The majesty of Mount Tai, the breadth of the sea, and the profoundness of Confucius and Mencius have jointly nurtured BlueSword's intelligent, sincere, atmospheric and stable corporate style and code of conduct, and created the cultural essence and core competitiveness of BlueSword's "only innovation". Similarly, BlueSword has also added technological wings to Jinan, a spring city with rich cultural heritage.

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Author / Tan Xiaomi

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1) Jinan is really aggrieved

"Chip shortage" is sweeping the world. But in China, there is a company that made a chip as early as 2008, and made the shipment number one in the world.

Most domestic industrial robot companies are learning from Amazon, but one company has developed a technical system that surpasses Amazon. In 2021, the company also won an order of 140 million from the Ningde era.

The wave of artificial intelligence and digitalization has driven a surge in the demand for IT talents. Due to the insufficient supply of "code farmers", the labor cost of software development is very high. To solve this problem, low-code technology came into being.

If a city like Jinan can independently develop low-code development platforms, independently develop chips, and independently develop industrial robots, do you still think Jinan is "old-fashioned"?

Xing Xinzhi, chairman of Jinan Zhongwei Century, said: "When our company released the first chip, we didn't believe that we were a company in Jinan." Wu Yaohua, chairman of Jinan BlueSword, said: "The equipment we develop and produce is used in Japan and the United States. People are also very shocked. Foreign customers have repeatedly confirmed this and asked us, is your company headquarters really in Jinan?" Li Feng, chairman of Jinan Jinxian, said: "I want to make a very well-known software, if everyone knows this The software is made by enterprises in Jinan. At that time, people will not say that Jinan is an old-fashioned country. I have such feelings."

BlueSword is really aggrieved! It is obviously a white swan, but it is wrapped in the coat of an ugly duckling.

2) Tear off the label that BlueSword is lagging behind

The old-fashioned label of Jinan was put on by Qingdao people in the 1990s. At that time, Jinan's industry was unfavorably transformed from a planned economy to a market economy. Jinan Qingqi and Xiaoya fell, and Sinotruk borrowed money. Jinan's life was difficult. At that time, Qingdao home appliances began to become famous all over the world. Haier and Hisense were flourishing. There was also an Aucma, and there was a long-established Tsingtao beer. Qingdao was definitely the largest industrial city in Shandong.

As the capital of Shandong Province, Jinan is often sneered as "Jinan County" and "Big Countryside" by Qingdao people. Jinan people often laugh at themselves like this. However, the old-fashioned Jinan incident has not affected the happiness and self-confidence of Jinan people at all. Jinan people are always filled with a noble, simple and low-key atmosphere.

20 years later, this Jinan is no longer Jinan. The rise of Sinotruk has achieved 100 billion revenue. Inspur has become the largest server provider in China, Qilu Pharmaceutical has become the industry leader, and Jin Hyundai is a well-known provider of information technology solutions for the State Grid. A number of high-growth technology companies such as BlueSword Intelligence, Zhongwei Century, and Jinwei Laser have made their products global.

Medicine Valley, Quantum Valley, China Computing Valley, Innovation Valley, and Laser Valley are all industrial parks planned and constructed by Jinan High-tech Zone. The entire Jinan High-tech Zone has been almost Siliconized. Industrial robots, laser intelligent equipment, quantum radar, quantum chips, and audio and video chips have been industrialized in Jinan; cutting-edge projects such as the National Supercomputing Center, Beidou Navigation, aerospace technology, and artificial crystals have been launched one after another.

As of 2020, the total number of high-tech enterprises in Jinan High-tech Zone has reached 1,214, ranking first in the province's national high-tech zones. In 2020, Jinan's GDP will reach 1,014.091 billion yuan, breaking the trillion mark for the first time. From 2001 when Jinan's GDP exceeded 100 billion, to 2020, it has reached a trillion level. In 20 years, Jinan's economic aggregate has expanded 10 times.

In recent years, people have been talking about Shandong lagging behind, referring to Qingdao, not Jinan. At present, the spotlight of the world economy is aimed at giant companies such as China's Huawei, Alibaba, and Tencent. The famous Qingdao industry is not as dazzling as it used to be. After the downturn and setbacks, Qingdao is also making great efforts to build a global industrial Internet. Jinan, which has always been low-key, has quietly risen. Jinan is no longer the Jinan 20 years ago. Jinan people are tearing off the label of backwardness, and Jinan is working hard to strengthen the provincial capital and become a pioneer area for the transformation of old and new.

3) Jinan's three great men

A few years ago, I accompanied Chen Hongguo, Chairman of Chenming Group, to visit Dr. Suo Jishuan, Chairman of Guoke Holdings. Mr. Suo said, "When dealing with scientists and entrepreneurs, you must use two heads. Entrepreneurs want the interests behind scientific research results, It is difficult for scientists to understand the difficulty of industrialization because they want the value of scientific research results. Entrepreneurs and scientists have different dimensions, which is also one of the reasons for the low conversion rate of scientific research results in my country.”

The Bank of Qingdao is the largest local bank in Shandong and supports local high-tech enterprises. Since the manufacturing industry has always advocated entrepreneurs with technical backgrounds, under the recommendation of Bank of Qingdao, I met two entrepreneurial professors from Shandong University, Wu Yaohua and Li Feng, a doctoral supervisor and a master's supervisor. They each founded a listed company. , Lan Jian Smart and Jin Hyundai Information. After getting to know Wu Yaohua and Li Feng, I often think about one thing. If Chinese academicians and professors can start their own businesses, develop their own products, and transform their own results, the conversion rate will definitely be quite high.

In recent years, BlueSword has made great moves in the field of industrial robots. The company's latest "air shuttle robot" can challenge the world. Professor Wu Yaohua has unique innovative ideas in the application of software control technology and automation technology, and is a person who dares to compete with international technology. His positioning of the company is to "become a benchmark for international technology giants and leading companies in the service industry". In the early years, he led the team to develop and produce a variety of intelligent logistics robots and intelligent logistics solutions, which were widely copied by industry peers.

Currently, Wu Yaohua leads the team to build a "super factory of the future", using robots to produce robots. In short, Professor Wu Yaohua is quite an expert. He is an expert.

In addition, Li Feng and Xing Xinzhi are also two talented people with unique skills. Wu Yaohua, Li Feng, and Xing Xinzhi, the three of them are like the Three Musketeers walking in the world of science and technology with their swords on their backs. Among the Three Musketeers, Wu Yaohua is the sharpest, Li Feng is gentle, and Xing Xinzhi is transparent.

Li Feng said that in the field of science and technology, Jinan can do something, and digitalization can help all walks of life. Xing Xinzhi said that artificial intelligence will refresh all industries, and cooperation is the productivity. Wu Yaohua said that in the past, for whatever reason, Jinan missed a lot of development opportunities, but in the intelligent wave of the fourth industrial revolution, Jinan must fight a beautiful turnaround.

Jinan is the land of hidden dragons and crouching tigers. There are many technical entrepreneurs like Wu Yaohua, Li Feng, and Xing Xinzhi. For example, the founders of companies such as Freda, Digiman, Yingsheng Bio, Huatian Software, Jinwei Laser, etc., can be regarded as technology in the subdivision field. cow man.

1/ Wu Yaohua: Foreigners saw the system we made and were really convinced.

1) Thank the people who tell the AI story

After 2014, the "AI Four Little Dragons" of Shangtang, Megvii, Yuncong, and Yitu appeared in China. With the prospect of AI and the touching stories of AI empowering industries, the four little dragons have all become "gold-sucking beasts". In 2018, there were various levels of faults in financing. All the four little dragons embarked on the road of IPO and began to accept the public review of the market.

According to the prospectus, before the IPO, SenseTime completed a total of 12 rounds of financing, with a financing amount of US$5.2 billion (approximately RMB 33.658 billion), ranking first among the four little dragons in terms of financing times and financing amount. In the first half of 2018-2021, SenseTime had a cumulative loss of 24.3 billion yuan and a net debt of 22.961 billion yuan. Without further ado, data speaks for itself.

The artificial intelligence that has been hyped by China is not a major invention of a company, nor does it have any technical barriers that are difficult to overcome. AI is evolving into a homogeneous algorithm technology. In the field of security, when the powerful hardware companies Hikvision and Dahua formed an AI team, the business of pure algorithm companies was not so good. In the future, AI applications should be made by manufacturing companies such as cloud, intelligent equipment, and robots, rather than pure AI companies on paper.

But I do want to thank the people who tell AI stories. AI empowers and inspires Baiye. Manufacturing doors are open to welcome AI. Wu Yaohua, chairman of Jinan BlueSword, said: "Although there is still a certain gap between my country's automation system technology and foreign countries, we started at the same time as foreign countries in terms of artificial intelligence. Foreign automation does not have AI technology, and our automation has AI blessings. , even more powerful."

In 2018, Jinan BlueSword won the bidding for a project in Japan, and the company competing for this project was Japan's Daifuku, a company ranked first in the world's warehousing and logistics automation industry. The reason why BlueSword was able to get this Japanese project is precisely because its automation system has the help of AI, which enables the machine to have vision and perception. Just like the "intelligent shuttle robot", the core equipment that BlueSword Intelligent bid for in this project, the Japanese company felt that this system in China is good, high-end, and especially more intelligent, so they finally chose to let BlueSword do this project. From the fact that BlueSword won the bid for the Japanese project, the smart manufacturing industry was inspired by the story of AI, and AI has indeed enabled the success of the manufacturing industry.

2) Foreigners saw the system we made and were really convinced!

Nearly half of the top ten well-known companies in more than ten industries around the world are BlueSword customers. How does BlueSword manage to export Chinese equipment to countries with developed economies and technologies around the world?

Wu Yaohua said: "BlueSword does two things. First, we develop new products that are not available in the market. We do not repeat the products that others have made. We will make products that others have made, and then use them to compete with others for the market? This is We don't do this kind of thing. Second, if we make similar products, we must make revolutionary innovations. In 2012, when we first made automatic cigarette sorting machines, there was no automatic cigarette sorting machine in the world. Today, Foreign countries are still using electronic tags for manual sorting, and we have already achieved the fifth-generation automatic sorting system."

The following is a wonderful description of Wu Yaohua's "unmanned warehouse" in the tobacco industry:

"As soon as the container enters the warehouse, the cigarettes are automatically transported into the warehouse, and then automatically palletized by the manipulator. After the stacking is neat, it is automatically transported to the high-bay warehouse power platform by the RGV, and the warehouse robot automatically stacks it on the designated high-level cargo space. Then according to the demand of the order, the cigarettes are automatically taken out of the whole pallet from the high-bay warehouse, and then transported to the integrated storage and distribution system with the shuttle robot as the core after being automatically dismantled by the manipulator. Automatically transported to the sorting area. During the sorting operation, the cigarettes are automatically unpacked by the unpacking robot, and the carton is automatically dismantled by one opening and two flipping. Orders one by one are automatically transported to the door of the warehouse for loading and delivery."

"From the entry of cigarettes to the delivery of the order, the whole process does not require any manual operation. This is what we call an unmanned warehouse. We have truly realized the whole process of cigarettes entering the warehouse, warehousing, sorting, packaging, and delivery. Unmanned. So, when we took foreigners to visit our system, they were amazed at how much automation China has achieved. The foreigners are really convinced! So we can get foreign projects.”

Mr. Wu's narration made the manufacturing industry very fascinated. The manufacturing industry also learned that most domestic companies that make warehousing and logistics robots are imitating Amazon, but BlueSword has developed a set of honeycomb technology that surpasses Amazon's system. What's going on? Wu Yaohua explained that in 2012, Amazon made the world's first flat goods-to-person system. BlueSword inspected this technology and found that the system had bottlenecks, so it decided not to do this system at that time. BlueSword has innovatively developed a 3D goods-to-person system with shuttle robots as its core product, that is, a three-dimensional goods-to-person system. "This system makes full use of the height space, and our efficiency is three times that of plane goods to people, and the density and efficiency are also three times. Because of such obvious advantages, our system has almost achieved electrical The full coverage of the business industry, including JD.com, Vipshop, Cainiao, Alibaba, NetEase Koala, and even Xiyin, which is currently doing well in e-commerce, are also using BlueSword's 3D goods-to-person system." Later, when the BlueSword3D goods-to-person system was known to Amazon, they were also very surprised. It turned out that China did this. They knew the huge bottleneck of their flat goods-to-person system, and they also recognized the advantages of the BlueSword three-dimensional goods-to-person system.” At present, BlueSword's multi-layer shuttle has developed to the fourth generation - the smart version of the IoT multi-layer shuttle robot. The 3D goods-to-person complete system with the shuttle robot as the core has been exported to Japan, Germany, the United States and other world economies and advanced technologies. s country. 3) Professor Wu Yaohua, a "super future factory" that uses robots to produce robots, founded BlueSword in 1993. He started out by doing software and technical consulting, self-hematopoiesis, self-accumulation, and later made equipment. It has independently developed a series of equipment such as warehousing robots, shuttle robots, handling robots, picking robots, depalletizing robots, and packaging robots, and has formed more than 100 core technologies. "Last year, BlueSword was successfully listed, and this year, it received a large order of 148 million yuan from the Ningde era. The company's benefits are getting better and better, and we should spend more money on the edge. At present, BlueSword is building a 300-acre super industrial robot in the future. The factory uses robots to produce robots. Talking about the "super factory of the future", Professor Wu Yaohua said excitedly, "We want to build a warehouse robot close to 45m high, which is taller, faster and smarter. This is our advantage. "Professor Wu also made an interesting analogy: "For example, we sell high-speed trains and motor cars, while others sell green cars." I believe that BlueSword will have a better and faster development in the next ten or twenty years. 

2/ Li Feng: I want to solve the problem of "Jinan old fashioned"

1) Not making a well-known software is a complex of mine

Jinan High-tech Zone has a software factory with more than 2,000 people, which is called "software iron army" by State Grid. The so-called software factory means that there are many people and no large-scale equipment. The huge office area is full of people interacting with computers. This is Jin Hyundai, which is well-known in the industry, focusing on the research and development of informatization in the State Grid, high-speed rail and other industries.

Similar to Wu Yaohua, founder of BlueSword, Li Feng, founder of Jinxian Company, is also a professor and master tutor of Shandong University. After 1965, Li Feng began to write software in 1986. In 1996, his software was published on CD-ROM by the Ministry of Electric Power of the People's Republic of China and applied in the national power system. At that time, QQ had not been launched yet, and there were no such world-renowned software as WeChat, Alipay and Douyin.

QQ and WeChat are social software, 2C products, equivalent to consumer goods in the manufacturing industry, and consumers are individuals. Li Feng wrote about industrial software, 2B products, which are equivalent to industrial products, and consumers are enterprises. 2B companies are often the heroes behind the scenes. Everyone knows Huawei and Lenovo, but few people know the memory technology company behind them, the largest memory chip provider in the country.

Failing to make a world-renowned software is a complex of Li Feng. Li Feng said: "I feel very proud that King Hyundai can serve technology-intensive central enterprises such as State Grid, High-speed Railway, and AVIC. In the past 20 years, due to our focus on 2B, the business concentration is high, although it is relatively well-known in the industry, but Socially, our company is not well-known, so many people don't know about Jinxian. I have always told the city's industry and information department that if there are several well-known software produced by our Jinan enterprises, the popularity of Jinan will be improved. No one will say that our Jinan is an old-fashioned one. I want to make a well-known software, and I have such a feeling."

When interviewing Professor Li Feng, I didn't write an interview outline, just like a chat. When Li Feng talked about the old-fashioned Jinan and his personal feelings, the manufacturing industry immediately resonated with Li Feng. What are the advantages of Jin Hyundai to get the national informatization project? Why does Li Feng care about Jinan's popularity and Jinan's old fashion? Why does he have such feelings? What kind of well-known software is he going to do? The manufacturing industry dug into Li Feng's personal experience.

2) I am also a little brilliant

Manufacturing sector: Mr. Li. Are you from Jinan?

Li Feng: My parents are from Hubei, and they came to Jinan very early. I was born in Jinan, a native of Jinan. From elementary school to university, graduate school, and work, he never left Jinan.

Manufacturing: Got it. So you have an old-fashioned complex in Jinan, and you care about the label of Jinan being backward?

Li Feng: Yes, I am very concerned.

Manufacturing industry: Mr. Li, why does Jin Hyundai focus on power informatization?

Li Feng: I am studying electricity.

Manufacturing industry: learn electricity, how to start software?

Li Feng: I studied electricity for undergraduates and computers for graduate studies.

Manufacturing: Why did you go to graduate school across disciplines?

Li Feng: Because I like programming very much, when I was in my third year of college, I learned a language called Agda, a programming language one by one very early.

Manufacturing: Did you teach yourself the language?

Li Feng: No. This course is a supplementary course. At that time there was only one computer in our school. On the computer, if the program written is wrong, there is no chance to modify it, and you must go over it again. Few of our class can get past. I double-checked it in my head, and I felt it was right. I went to the computer and passed it once. I have a natural fascination with computers, probably a gift!

Manufacturing industry: Most scientific research results are not entirely based on hard work, but probably based on interest and talent.

Li Feng: Yes, I must like it. In 1997, I compiled a set of software called "220kv Substation Multimedia Computer - Simulation Training System". At that time, it was used for the training of Shandong electric power workers and it was very successful. Later, the then Ministry of Electric Power Industry published this set of CDs, which were used for training in the national power system, including the five major power generation groups in the south. This was also the first set of CDs published by the Ministry of Electric Power Industry.

Manufacturing: Why is it called simulation?

Li Feng: For the equipment of the power system, learn how to operate it, you can't just try it. I simulated the device on the computer, then clicked the switch with the mouse, opened the switch, and learned how to operate the device, so this is called a simulation training system.

Manufacturing: How old were you then?

Li Feng: Come on at 30.

Manufacturing: Did you become a university computer teacher at that time?

Li Feng: Yes.

Manufacturing: 97 years. At that time, you contributed to the power industry.

Li Feng: This is a little brilliant.

Following this set of simulation software, Li Feng developed a power "intelligent operation ticket system", the main function of which is to reduce manual labor intensity, automatically generate power equipment operation steps, and greatly improve work efficiency; intelligent alarm, avoid power equipment explosion caused by manual errors , casualties and widespread power outages.

In 2001, Li Feng founded Jin Hyundai. The "smart ticket generation system" has earned Jin Hyundai the first pot of gold and achieved the first market share in the country. Next, Jin Hyundai became an in-depth partner of State Grid Corporation of China, China Southern Power Grid Corporation, Huadian Group, Datang Group, and Guodian Group. Of course, Li Feng has become an important participant, designer and builder of the national power informatization. Later, Jin Hyundai's business successfully extended to high-speed rail, aerospace and other fields.

It is conceivable that to do informatization in the fields of electric power, high-speed rail, and aerospace, you must understand the operating rules and complex logic in this field. That is to say, the technical content of industrial software is higher than that of social software. For the creative ability and technology of software, Li Feng does his part. In 2015, Li Feng proposed the "Copy to N" strategy and began to copy software technology to N industries. In 2020, King Hyundai successfully landed on the A-share Venture Edition. The company's listing has rekindled Li Feng's entrepreneurial passion. Li Feng said that in the high-tech field, we can make advanced things, and we have this strength.

3) Jin Hyundai benchmarks against Siemens, Huawei, and Ali

This time, Jin Hyundai is really good! As the chief designer, Li Feng led the research and development of the low-code development platform "Light Cavalry". The benchmark companies turned out to be manufacturing giants Siemens, Huawei, and Ali.

Low-code development and applications were originally proposed by the United States. In 2015, giants such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle began to enter the market. Mendix, the global leader in low-code technology, was acquired by manufacturing giant Siemens for 600 million euros in October 2018. In the same year, the low-code platform OutSystems also received $360 million in financing from KKR and Goldman Sachs, with a valuation of more than $1 billion.

Low-code platforms become a new outlet! Domestic technology companies such as Huawei and Ali have also entered the market one after another, launching their own low-code development platforms Rubik's Cube AppCube and Yida.

In January 2021, Siemens Mendix will land in China. It is understood that the platform has been adopted by SAIC Motor and Yunzhihui, a subsidiary of Foxconn. This year, Jin Hyundai's low-code development platform Hussar was also adopted by the Second Academy of Aviation Corporation of China and Huaneng Information.

Why does low-code development attract so many giants? What kind of artifact is it? Li Feng gave a simple explanation: "Low-code is relative to full-code. Using a full-code development platform requires programmers to write code line by line to make a software project, which is very slow, employs many people, and is expensive. Using the low-code development platform, 70, 80% of the code does not need to be written. The low-code platform development framework is composed of various visual modules, and programming is like stacking blocks. By dragging and dropping graphic modules, design ideas can be converted into practical applications , In this way, the development cost is greatly reduced. At present, the demand for software talents has skyrocketed due to intelligent manufacturing and digitalization, and the supply gap is huge. With a low-code development platform, everyone can be a programmer, even if you don’t know how to write code. , you can also build a software system, so that software talents can also be effectively solved.”

Jin Hyundai was involved in low-code development earlier, and the light cavalry is also the "ace" product that Jin Hyundai made great efforts to create. The company has accumulated and invested heavily in this area. R&D personnel, testers, and artists are all building this product, generation after generation, and now it has been updated and iterated to the 8th generation version.

Low-code technology is called a digital gold mine. Can Jinxian make this golden cake bigger? Can the light cavalry be made into a world-renowned software? With 20 years of accumulation of industrial software technology and experience, Li Feng, who is elegant and a bit bold and poetic, is full of confidence. He formulated the "Hussar + Subdivision" to quickly push the Hussar to the manufacturing industry, covering more industrial scenarios. At present, the company's business in the fields of biopharmaceuticals and new materials is progressing smoothly.

3/ Four great things about Xing Xinzhi

1) Dare to compare Li Feng with "little brilliance", Xing Xinzhi is regarded as one

Compared with industrial software master Li Feng, Xing Xinzhi is an electronic software genius. Li Feng and Xing Xinzhi are good friends, and Xing Xinzhi can be regarded as one of Li Feng's "little brilliance". Before 2006, he was keen on software development and creativity in various electronic fields. From 2007 to 2009, Xing Xinzhi led the team to develop a card and a chip. This card is popular all over the country. This chip is the first in the same industry in China and ranks first in the world in shipments.

At the beginning of the new century, the wave of WTO, computer, Internet, software, QQ, monitoring, and electronic industry is booming. Around 2003, the installation of surveillance cameras was as fashionable as the installation of telephones in the 1980s and 1990s. In all walks of life, large and small surveillance engineering teams could be seen everywhere.

27-year-old Xing Xinzhi founded Zhongwei Century in 2000 and is engaged in various electronic software development. In 2007, the company took over a software development project in Inner Mongolia. During the project, it used a video capture card, which has a Function, after using it to develop this function at that time, I found that it was actually used for monitoring, and it was very expensive at that time.

Xing Zhongzhi found that the software for developing video capture cards is much simpler than the software they developed, and they can do it too. Xing Xinzhi's team began to develop this software. In the process of development, Xing Xinzhi had a bold idea, can he make hardware by himself?

At this time, Xing Xinzhi broke into Shenzhen, the mecca of science and technology in China. We found a partner in the industry chain in the Pearl River Delta. In 2007, Zhongwei Century successfully launched the company's first hardware product, called "Video Compression Card JVS-C701", and Xing Xinzhi entered the audio and video industry. This version of the card is very popular in the market because of its excellent foundation, large collection capacity, compression function, and remote control, which makes the monitoring system play an excellent role.

Then there was a very serious problem, it was pirated. How serious is it? Five out of ten cards on the market are pirated. At that time, pirated software was flying all over the sky, and Xing Xinzhi went to catch pirated copies and applied for copyright protection without hope. He found that the best anti-piracy method is that your technology is better, you iterate faster, and keep releasing new versions.

The surveillance boom made a card from Zhongwei Century Company popular across the country. Despite 50% pirated copies, Zhongwei still received a large amount of technical dividends brought by the security industry. This is the first of Zhongwei Company and this is the first great thing Xing Xinzhi has done.

2) If this chip cannot be made, our company will be gone

As far as the IT industry is concerned, it is normal to do software in Jinan, because there is Shandong University. It is indeed a great thing to be able to turn software into hardware products. That is to say, it is normal for Shenzhen to do hardware, but to do chips, it is not on the same level as Taiwan.

From making software to making hardware, Xing Xinzhi made a lot of friends in the IT industry. He heard a Taiwanese speak like this, he said: "There will be such a direction and such a function in the future, let's open a new one. chip." Xing Xinzhi understood, and he wondered if their company could also make chips? If the chip can be made, the problem of piracy will be solved, and this is also a very good thing in itself. In just a few years, Zhongwei Century has developed from a pure software company to hardware, and now it has begun to make chips.

Xing Xinzhi said: "There are very few successful versions of chips; if the first version is not successful, our company will be gone. Because at that time, I found all the money and the money in the corners and put it into this chip. Luck. Good! Our chip has been made. In 2009, Zhongwei Century launched the first audio and video post-processing chip JV9800 in China. After the chip came out, the problem of piracy was solved immediately, because our software did not support pirated products.”

This kind of chip sells for 14 dollars in the United States, and the cost of Zhongwei is only a few dollars. This chip has sold to the level of tens of millions, making Zhongwei Century quickly become the video compression card company with the largest shipment in the world. It is precisely because of this chip that Zhongwei Century has developed into a national big company in the IT industry. The company has grown from a few people, dozens of people, to hundreds of people, and the entire IT industry knows Zhongwei Century. Since 2014, Zhongwei has been the largest customer of Huawei HiSilicon video chips in North China, and also an important customer of video-related chip companies such as Fullhan Micro, Beijing Junzheng, RK, sigmastar, and OV.

Xing Xinzhi said, "Piracy also has an advantage. It spreads the company's reputation and advertises the company. Later, after our JV9800 chip was launched, many customers came here. What's more interesting is that many people come to Jinan to get the goods. Customers have such doubts, how can a company like Zhongwei Century be in Jinan? How can Jinan make chips?"

This is the second great thing Xing Xinzhi has done.

3) Epidemic thermometer, ecology and kindness in the supply chain

There is a famous saying that the customer is God. The customer here refers to the downstream customer. There is also a call in the workplace that please treat your upstream customers well and respect your suppliers.

In the IT industry, a mobile phone requires tens of thousands of components, and even an ordinary AI hardware product requires thousands or hundreds of components. Whoever maintains the supply chain ecology has the right to speak in the supply chain. Behind the ecology is kindness. Thickness is a person's heavy behavior; Dao is the way of doing things, and it is the rules and standards. Honesty and Dao add up, that is, to benefit others first, and then to benefit oneself, it is a person's kindness.

Xing Xinzhi believes that the core competitiveness of an enterprise relies solely on technology and burning money, which is unreliable and unstable. So on what? A kind of accumulation honed by time, this accumulation refers to the accumulation of enterprise technical ability, production capacity and market capacity. More importantly, when you face Party B, do you have the kind of literacy that you face with Party A? In the industrial supply chain, do you have the accumulation of kindness and integrity?

From the end of 2019 to the first half of 2020, the global epidemic broke out, and masks and thermometers were rushed. At that time, who could make epidemic protection products simply made a great contribution to the epidemic. Xing Xinzhi decided to measure the temperature of the epidemic. He organized the R&D team to do an evaluation. Within a week, the answer to him was that it could be done. But at that time, the parts and materials in the industrial chain were also in a frantic state, which was extremely tense. Xing Xinzhi ordered that as long as you can get the goods, you can get as much as you want, regardless of the price. For some parts procurement, Xing Xinzhi personally called friends in the industry chain, and the friends promised to share a part of Zhongwei from other customers.

Like fighting a war, from R&D, organizing the supply chain to producing finished products, Zhongwei Century launched the "Face Recognition Automatic Temperature Measuring Machine" in one month, and then launched the "Thermal Imaging Thermometer". In China, Italy, Germany, Italy, Spain, South Korea, and Japan, the thermometers produced by Zhongwei Century are used everywhere.

It is said that there are great people in the mid-dimensional century, and Xing Xinzhi likes to do great things. Xing Xinzhi summed up two points, "First, the R&D system and personnel team accumulated by Zhongwei Century for so many years should be said to be excellent and capable, and my colleagues are good enough! Second, we have been for so many years. The business model of being kind to others follows a culture of kindness, which ultimately leads to the strong customers in our supply chain.”

In fact, the success of Zhongwei Century Thermometer comes from the power of the entire industry chain. To be in the IT industry is to be ecological and kind in the supply chain. The reward you get today is the bond you have forged in the past.

4) The fourth great thing makes Jinan a real Silicon Valley

Xing Xinzhi is very low-key, like a piece of high-ice jadeite, the kind that is not easy to find when thrown into the water. But when it comes to business, he has a global mind.

AI audio and video is the main product of Zhongwei Century. Xing Xinzhi said that many inventions and creations have been simulating the human body, and AI audio and video are making products around people's "eyes, ears, brain, and mouth". What the eyes and ears do is collection, which is the first collection chip I made. What the brain does is analysis, which is computing power and algorithms. What the mouth does is output, such as sound, screen. Do a good job in the information collection and input system, do a good job in brain analysis, and then create an output system. Do a good job in every link, and finally package it and miniaturize it, it is an intelligent robot.

The theme of the fourth industrial revolution is the intelligent revolution. The so-called intelligence is to allow all things to see and hear, to reason and to speak. Xing Xinzhi said: "Artificial intelligence will refresh all industries. The AI audio and video industry has no ceiling, and the market exceeds trillions. I hope to make Zhongwei a very large company, rather than making some money."

Today's Zhongwei is no longer a Zhongwei that only made video capture cards more than ten years ago. Later, the company made complete products and cloud technology, and became a global provider of intelligent AI products and multi-field smart industries. The big solution company has become the product technology provider behind the giants such as Huawei and Xiaomi Technology. Relevant software and hardware products are independently developed and manufactured, with comprehensive capabilities from product definition to manufacturing and solution delivery.

The fourth great thing that Xing Xinzhi is doing is to build a landmark park for the artificial intelligence industry in Jinan, making Jinan a real, real Silicon Valley. Zhongwei Century Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, with a planned standard workshop area of 120,000 square meters, introduces Shenzhen experience, creates a shared R&D center, pilot test center, and manufacturing center; purchases automatic patch lines and automatic welding lines. Strictly select industrial control, intelligent manufacturing, automotive electronics, medical electronics, Internet of Things and other industrial chain-related enterprises to settle in. Introduce Huawei's machine vision line and jointly establish a smart vision research institute to enhance the "brain" of the park; introduce excellent OEM companies, ODM companies; excellent algorithm companies, excellent AI creative companies, etc., to build the park into an artificial intelligence industry chain The Kochi gathering place will transform more artificial intelligence technologies, production processes, and creative works into products and industries, truly realizing AI empowerment of all industries, and realizing intelligent manufacturing and unmanned factories.

*The following articles are from the manufacturing industry, author Tan Xiaomi