Accelerate the Cultivation of Technological Enterprises to Promote the Construction of a Technological Power柯瑞文

企业是科技和经济紧密结合的重要力量，是推动技术创新、研发投入和科研成果转化的主体。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记高度重视科技创新，重视企业在科技创新中的关键作用。总书记多次深入车间厂房、走近一线职工、开展基层座谈，深刻指出自主创新是企业的生命，是企业爬坡过坎、发展壮大的根本，强调要充分发挥科技领军企业龙头作用。总书记的一系列重要论述，引领我国科技型企业快速成长并在协同创新体系中发挥出前所未有的创新活力。党的二十届三中全会强调，“强化企业科技创新主体地位，建立培育壮大科技领军企业机制”。我们要深入学习、准确把握总书记的重要论述和重要指示批示精神，深刻领会、坚决落实党中央决策部署，牢牢把握打好关键核心技术攻坚战、加强科技创新和产业创新深度融合、构建支持全面创新体制机制等重要要求，加快打造科技型企业。

Deeply understand the importance of building a technology-based enterprise

In the construction of a technologically strong nation, enterprises are the mainstay of technological innovation and an important vehicle for providing high-quality technological supply. President Xi Jinping emphasized the need to leverage the roles of leading technology enterprises as "question setters," "answer providers," and "examiners." State-owned enterprises, including central enterprises, should take on significant responsibilities, lead the charge, and serve as the "source of original technology" and the "leaders of modern industrial chains." To implement the spirit of President Xi's important discourse, enterprises, especially central enterprises, should aim to build and strengthen leading technology enterprises and consciously fulfill their mission to promote high-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening.

Technological enterprises often possess key core technologies and concentrate innovative elements, providing favorable conditions for promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into practical productive forces and accelerating the development of new productive forces. In fostering technological enterprises, central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) bear the dual mission of driving the development of basic and applied research, with the foundational advantages of integrating and coordinating innovative resources, facilitating the cross-regional flow of innovative elements, and promoting the iteration and application of new technologies. They are an important part of the nation's strategic scientific and technological forces. Central SOEs with the necessary conditions are actively transitioning towards technological enterprises, which is of great significance for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, cultivating and developing new productive forces, enhancing the self-sufficiency and control of key core technologies, and firmly safeguarding national security.

With the deepening development of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the penetrative, diffusive, and driving characteristics of technology have become more prominent. High-tech fields have become the forefront and main battlefield of international competition. New-generation information technologies, represented by artificial intelligence, are widely applied, accelerating the industrial transformation process of scientific and technological achievements. Technology is profoundly altering the landscape of economic and social development. The information and communication industry is highly sensitive to changes in technological development. In recent years, China's information and communication industry has continuously strengthened strategic planning for technological innovation, persistently promoted resource integration and platform innovation, enhanced overall coordination, and gradually improved the ability for original innovation in disruptive and cutting-edge technologies. In some areas, a transformation from "following and imitating" to "leading innovation" has been achieved. Accelerating the transition to a technology-driven enterprise and enhancing innovation capabilities are of great significance for enterprises in the information and communication sector.

China Telecom's independently developed industrial control basic software "YiYunKong" leverages proprietary algorithms to break through the limitations of traditional industrial control architectures, actively empowering various scenarios such as autonomous intelligent production line transformation, machine replacement, and flexible production. It has been implemented in multiple industries including steel, hardware, electronics, textiles, printing, logistics, and frozen food. The image shows a miniature production line example during the Digital China Construction Summit from [specific dates], where China Telecom demonstrated the functional features and operational process of the "YiYunKong" solution. Photo provided by China Telecom Group Co., Ltd.

作为行业主要中央企业之一，中国电信深入学习贯彻习近平总书记相关重要论述和重要指示批示精神，认真分析国内外信息通信行业前沿动态并深刻认识到，科技创新不仅是发展问题，更是生存问题；传统电信运营商只有依靠科技创新，才能实现企业生产方式从要素驱动发展向创新驱动发展转变，在科技竞争中赢得主动、赢得优势、赢得未来。近年来，中国电信把科技创新作为企业发展战略的核心内涵和高质量发展的根本支撑，进一步明确了科技型企业的发展方向、目标举措和重点任务，确立“网络、云及云网融合、人工智能、量子/安全”等四大技术方向，建立应用基础研究、应用技术研发和运营式开发相互协同的科技创新体系，持续加大科技创新投入，加强科技人才引进、培养和使用，不断提升研发费用占比，推动科技型企业建设取得了积极成效。年，自研创新成果对企业增量收入的贡献达%，在云计算、人工智能、量子、卫星等领域取得一大批重大原创性科技成果。

On the new journey, we must firmly seize the strategic opportunities presented by the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, align with the development trends of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, further enhance the ability for independent innovation in key core technologies, improve and perfect the internal and open-collaborative innovation mechanisms within enterprises, seize the initiative in the increasingly fierce competition for innovation, keep pace with, and even lead, the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and contribute to the construction of a powerful nation in science and technology.

Strengthen the research and breakthroughs in key core technologies, enhance independent innovation capabilities.

President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of grasping the "key to independent innovation in core technologies" and "winning the battle for key core technologies." The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to strengthen innovation in key common technologies, cutting-edge leading technologies, modern engineering technologies, and disruptive technologies. For technology-based enterprises, only by achieving original and leading breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation can they seize the high ground in technological competition and future development, firmly holding the initiative in the development of related fields in their own hands.

Currently, our country has built the largest and most technologically advanced network infrastructure globally, with mobile communication technology achieving a historic leap from "breakthrough," "synchronization," to "leadership." The gap in key core technologies such as chips and operating systems with international advanced levels continues to narrow, and our research in cutting-edge technologies like quantum communication is in the global first echelon. These breakthroughs and developments in key technologies lay a solid foundation for further tackling key core technologies and continuously enhancing independent innovation capabilities in the information and communication industry of our country.

China Telecom has pooled its technological resources to invest in the network construction of the Chizhou-Huangshan high-speed railway in Anhui, overcoming numerous difficulties posed by complex terrains such as mountains and swamps, achieving high-quality network coverage along the entire high-speed railway, and boosting local economic and social development with vibrant vitality. The picture shows China Telecom engineers conducting maintenance on network base stations along the Chizhou-Huangshan high-speed railway. Photo provided by China Telecom Group Co., Ltd.

On the foundation of the nation's growing technological prowess and the rapid advancements in industry-specific technological breakthroughs, China Telecom has driven the formation of a series of breakthrough and landmark technological innovation achievements, with cloud-network integration as the key. In accordance with the requirements for the construction of an intelligent and comprehensive digital information infrastructure that is "high-speed and ubiquitous, integrated with the sky and earth, cloud-network integrated, intelligent and agile, green and low-carbon, secure and controllable," China Telecom has adhered to the independent networking scheme, built a large-scale independent networking and shared network, overcome multiple key technical challenges, and led the formulation of several international standards (3GPP). It has also made breakthroughs in key technologies such as cloud operating systems and cloud-native databases, propelling "Tianyi Cloud" into a new stage of intelligent cloud development. Continuously strengthening the integrated layout of networks in the sky and on the ground, it has promoted the full system integration of terrestrial and satellite networks, and its mobile phone direct satellite communication service has played a crucial role in emergency communication support during disaster relief and stability maintenance. In a recent month, Hainan was hit by Typhoon "Mojito." China Telecom's mobile phone direct satellite service successfully overcame the limitations of traditional communication in extreme environments. In the face of the typhoon severely damaging ground communication infrastructure, it used the Tiantong satellite network signal to achieve stable phone calls and short message sending. This service allowed people to reconnect with lost family, friends, or colleagues, transmitting precious messages of safety and greatly enhancing the confidence and hope of disaster-stricken areas. China Telecom's satellite technology service has provided reliable communication support during critical moments for disaster relief, earning the recognition of a wide range of users.

On the new journey, to further strengthen independent innovation in key core technologies and solidly build and enhance technology-based enterprises, it is essential to stay closely aligned with the frontiers of global science and technology, serve the major needs of the nation and the people, deeply integrate into the national innovation system, and provide long-term and stable support for foundational research and key projects by identifying breakthrough points. We must actively participate in national scientific and technological research tasks, enhance research and development in network architecture, intelligent computing networks, and the internet of computing power, break through key technologies such as cloud computing infrastructure software and hardware, and focus on overcoming "bottleneck" challenges such as post-quantum cryptography and quantum computing cloud platforms, thereby building a competitive edge in technological innovation in the field of information and communication.

Promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation to empower economic and social development.

创新是引领发展的第一动力，科技创新能够催生新产业、新模式、新动能，是发展新质生产力的核心要素，已经成为提高社会生产力和综合国力的战略支撑。抓创新就是抓发展，而实现以创新促发展、把科技创新成果转化为现实生产力，关键在融合。习近平总书记对科技创新和产业创新深度融合进行深刻剖析，指出“基础是增加高质量科技供给”、“关键是强化企业科技创新主体地位”、“途径是促进科技成果转化应用”。企业是打通科技成果转化的“最后一公里”，是推动实现科技创新引领产业创新的重要主体和紧要环节。打造科技型企业，重要任务之一就是推动科技创新和产业创新融合发展，加快发展新质生产力。

As a strategic, foundational, and leading industry in the national economy, the information and communication industry bears significant responsibilities in promoting the integrated development of technological and industrial innovation. It can play a crucial role by adhering to demand-oriented and industrialization-focused approaches, and by diligently advancing the innovative development of new-generation information technologies with the real economy. Currently, China's information and communication sector has established the world's largest, most active, and most potential digital service market. Innovative applications such as collaborative research and development, remote control, machine quality inspection, and intelligent inspection continue to emerge, playing a positive role in driving the synchronized development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization in the economy and society. For instance, technologies such as cloud computing and gigabit optical networks are continuously deepening their applications in social production and daily life, with the supply of comprehensive intelligent information products and services steadily increasing. A series of new information and communication technologies are constantly promoting the deep integration of the digital economy with the real economy, actively empowering the digital transformation and intelligent upgrade of the economy and society.

In the integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, China Telecom has fully completed the strategic layout of emerging businesses such as cloud computing and computing power, artificial intelligence, security, digital platforms, big data, quantum technology, and next-generation information and communication technologies. It continues to optimize comprehensive intelligent information products and services, playing a significant role in promoting the digital transformation and intelligent upgrading of various industries. In the field of cloud computing and computing power, China Telecom has built an integrated intelligent computing platform that fully supports the unified scheduling of various heterogeneous computing powers such as general-purpose, intelligent, and supercomputing. For example, the open intelligent computing center in Shenzhen, Guangdong, relies on the scheduling capabilities of China Telecom's integrated intelligent computing platform to create a corridor for scientific and technological innovation and computing networks, which can aggregate and schedule computing power across regions, providing flexible and continuous supply of computing power to educational, medical, research institutions, and various enterprises in the radiation area, thereby realizing the value of resource scheduling, supply, scientific and technological innovation, empowerment, and investment attraction based on computing power, making computing power a "catalyst" for the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. In the field of artificial intelligence, China Telecom has launched large models for various scenarios in government affairs, industry, education, and other fields, serving over 10,000 industry customers. In the field of big data, it has introduced a data element service platform, providing full-stack data element services to over 100 partners in various provinces and cities, further unlocking the value of data elements in economic and social development. In the areas of security and quantum technology, China Telecom has built a network attack protection platform with global coverage and reach, creating new security capabilities centered on quantum technology, constructing quantum security infrastructure, and continuously promoting the integration and innovation of quantum technology with call services, cloud networks, and platforms. For example, the quantum metropolitan area network in Hefei, Anhui, uses cutting-edge technologies with independent intellectual property rights from China Telecom, providing quantum secure access services and data transmission encryption services for government systems, comprehensively enhancing the security protection level of e-government. Additionally, it will explore and develop applications such as quantum secure cloud, quantum secure calls, quantum secure office, and quantum secure video conferencing, helping to build a quantum secure capability foundation, providing quantum secure access services for application scenarios such as smart healthcare, smart transportation, smart finance, and smart energy, and promoting the innovative development of urban security and security industries.

China's first "zero-carbon" data center—China Telecom (National) Digital Qinghai Green Big Data Center—employs a green electricity perception traceability algorithm model to comprehensively monitor the kilowatt-hours and proportions of hydropower, photovoltaic, and wind power, recording every kilowatt-hour consumed. Based on the source-grid-load-storage integrated green electricity smart supply system, the center uses photovoltaic power generation systems for park reserve and urban grid transmission. It is reported that the data center has achieved "carbon neutrality" and "zero-carbon" emissions, with an annual carbon reduction exceeding 10,000 tons. The photo shows the center's smart operation platform, taken on a certain date. Photo by Li Jun/Xinhua News Agency.

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party emphasized that "strengthening the coordination and organization of innovation resources, promoting the integrated development of technological innovation and industrial innovation." This provides important guidance for continuing to advance the integration of technological and industrial innovation, accelerating the cultivation of new productive forces, and empowering high-quality economic and social development. Facing the deployment requirements for further deepening institutional and mechanism reforms, it is essential to fully leverage the role of technology-based enterprises, enhance the industrialization effectiveness of scientific and technological achievements, promote the deep integration of innovation chains and industrial chains, and truly make technological innovation a powerful engine driving high-quality development. Based on deep integration, China Telecom will continue to increase efforts in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, focus on breaking the "technology-product-industry" cycle, promote the application and iterative upgrade of independently developed products, and deeply advance the integration of multiple elements such as "+cloud+AI+applications." This will facilitate the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, providing more high-quality, efficient, digital, and intelligent products and services to empower the transformation and development of various industries, and offering more inclusive, convenient, and intelligent digital life services, allowing the broad masses of the people to share in the innovative development achievements of technology-based enterprises.

Deepening the reform of the scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism to stimulate innovation vitality.

"If scientific and technological innovation is likened to the new engine of our country's development, then reform is the indispensable ignition system to start this new engine." President Xi Jinping profoundly elucidated the intrinsic logic between innovation and reform, emphasizing "persisting in deepening reforms to stimulate innovation vitality." The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made further arrangements for deepening the reform of the science and technology system, requiring the optimization of the organizational mechanisms for major scientific and technological innovations, and promoting the systematization, institutionalization, and coordination of scientific and technological innovation forces, resource allocation, and talent teams. Deepening the reform of innovation systems and mechanisms is an inevitable requirement for continuously strengthening the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, a key move to remove blockages and bottlenecks in enhancing the overall efficiency of innovation, and an important way to continuously stimulate the innovation vitality of scientific and technological talents. Building a technology-based enterprise is a systematic project that must establish a global perspective and systematic thinking, planning and promoting the reform of innovation systems and mechanisms from all aspects and the entire chain.

For the information and communication industry, adhering to deepening reforms to stimulate innovation vitality, resolutely breaking down ideological and institutional barriers that hinder technological innovation, and maximizing the liberation and stimulation of the enormous potential of science and technology as the primary productive force, can effectively transform institutional advantages into technological competition advantages. Actively cultivating an industrial innovation ecosystem, creating a market environment that is efficient, standardized, fair, competitive, and open, and continuously enhancing the intrinsic motivation for industry innovation development are essential. Deepening the reform of the technological innovation system and mechanism is a crucial step for telecommunications enterprises to enhance their independent innovation capabilities. Only by further comprehensively deepening reforms and addressing prominent issues in technological innovation through institutional mechanisms can we achieve effective allocation of various elements and resources for technological innovation, thereby further enhancing the overall efficiency of enterprise innovation.

In recent years, China Telecom has focused on building a technology-driven enterprise, continuously advancing comprehensive, systematic, and deep-rooted reform and innovation through organizational transformation, mechanism optimization, team enhancement, and open cooperation. Leveraging the advantages of cloud-network integration and customer resources, it has established a number of technology-driven subsidiaries with core competitiveness, driving strategic emerging businesses into the main operational processes and optimizing R&D resource allocation. Deeply implementing the "Talent-Driven Enterprise" project, it has optimized and improved mechanisms such as "unveiling the list and taking charge" and "racing horses," maximizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of technology talents. Establishing the Data Element Industry Alliance, it has conducted joint research and development in areas such as data circulation, data governance, and data value release. Initiating the establishment of the Global Cloud and Broadband Industry Association, it has fully leveraged its role as an important bridge and link for international cooperation and digital new infrastructure along the Belt and Road, jointly promoting the prosperity of the digital industry with the international community.

On the new journey, deepening the reform of the scientific and technological innovation system and mechanism must further break through all ideological obstacles and institutional barriers that constrain technological innovation. We will adhere to a holistic perspective and systematic thinking, actively plan and advance the reform of the system and mechanism in the field of scientific and technological innovation, establish and improve the incentive and security system for scientific and technological innovation; continuously improve the layout of enterprise talent, accelerate the cultivation of a high-end leading, structurally reasonable, and high-quality innovative talent team; strengthen the construction of corporate culture in technology-oriented enterprises, strive to form a good atmosphere that upholds and encourages innovation; enhance the deep integration of industry, academia, and research, collaborate with upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, supply chain, and innovation chain to jointly build R&D platforms, co-create product applications, and share benefits and value; persist in high-level opening to the outside world, strengthen international exchanges and innovation in new-generation information technology. We must uphold the vigorous vitality of innovation and creation, allowing all sources of innovation to fully flow, and make new and greater contributions to advancing the construction of a strong internet nation, a digital China, and a strong technological nation.

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Source: "Qiushi" / Author: Ke Ruiwen, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Telecom Group Co., Ltd. Production: Wang Hui Review: Wang Zhaobin