2017年CRI Entrepreneurs champion the idea of "made in China 2025"

 

Entrepreneurs and CEOs from the World's leading companies have gathered for a meeting of the 2017 Boao Forum¹ for Asia to debate opportunities and challenges facing their businesses and sectors² in the future.

Photo taken on March 22, 2017 shows the conference site of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference (BFA) in Boao, south China's Hainan Province. The 2017 BFA will be held from March 23 to 26 this year. [Photo: Xinhua]

CRI's reporter Guo Yan takes a closer look at the event to see how these entrepreneurs are embracing the idea of the fourth industrial revolution.

Zeng Qinghong, director of Guangzhou Automobile⁴ Group Co., a leading carmaker in China, says Intelligent manufacturing helps Chinese entrepreneurs, especially in traditional industry, to transform their business models.

"The key word here is intelligent manufacturing. We are making efforts to seek ways to making our products and services more intelligent. We are now carrying out experiments on products related to driverless cars and we are testing this project in some cities and on some highways. For companies in traditional fields, if they wanna transform and achieve growth in the future, I think intelligent manufacturing could help realize the goal."

Zeng added that his company also faces huge challenges, including rising costs in research and development, and a shortage of talents in the field of cutting-edge technology.

China's central government has unveiled a 10-year plan for upgrading the country's manufacturing sector³ so it can catch up with production powerhouses like Germany and America.

The "Made in China 2025" plan hopes to give the country an edge in making good products and quality brands.

The Chinese authorities say favorable policies will be rolled out to help underpin⁶ the plan.

Bernard Charles is CEO of Dassault Systèmes, a leading 3d software maker⁵.

He believes the strategy of "Made in China 2025" can help upgrade China's manufacturing capacity and companies will see huge opportunities and new growth from the transformation⁷.

"we are building a new work force for the future. I think that's where China can leverage⁸. China has a great population that wants to learn more and find new solutions. And I think manufacturing 2025 is a great program to make this possible. We have a new generation changing the industry and this is good. There are spaces for entrepreneurs."

Niklas Gustavsson is the chief sustainability officer of Volvo, a leading Swedish automaker.

He plays down the idea of completely separating the emerging high-tech⁹ sector from traditional industry, and points to the major role that innovations such as virtual reality is playing in more traditional industries such as transport.

"We can see today, maybe not as visibly as clear as new games for instance, new virtue¹⁰ really games but actually we have a lot of examples on how it's integrated into new trucks and buses and in construction equipment for instance."

The business leader also notes that with the help of new technologies like artificial intelligence, electro-mobility and virtual reality, society can evolve in a positive way.

He says it's interesting to see that discussions on the new industrial revolution has shifted from pure technology explanations, to what it can really do for society.

"With growth that is actually utilizing¹¹ this technology going in the right direction with sustainable economic growth both from an economic perspective but also for the social and not least environmental perspective."

The businessman also suggests that he's very much interested in China's strategy of enhancing manufacturing capacity, known as "made in China 2025", and expects to see more business opportunities and cooperation projects running in the country as a result.

1 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

2 sectors   

n.部门( sector的名词复数 )；领域；防御地区；扇形

参考例句：

• Berlin was divided into four sectors after the war. 战后柏林分成了4 个区。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Industry and agriculture are the two important sectors of the national economy. 工业和农业是国民经济的两个重要部门。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 sector   

n.部门，部分；防御地段，防区；扇形

参考例句：

• The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
• The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。

4 automobile   

n.汽车，机动车

参考例句：

• He is repairing the brake lever of an automobile.他正在修理汽车的刹车杆。
• The automobile slowed down to go around the curves in the road.汽车在路上转弯时放慢了速度。

5 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

6 underpin   

v.加固，支撑

参考例句：

• China needs regional stability to underpin its continued economic growth.中国需要地区稳定来巩固其持续的经济增长。
• These developments are underpinned by solid progress in heavy industry.重工业的稳固发展为这些进展打下了基础。

7 transformation   

n.变化；改造；转变

参考例句：

• Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
• He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。

8 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

9 high-tech   

adj.高科技的

参考例句：

• The economy is in the upswing which makes high-tech services in more demand too.经济在蓬勃发展，这就使对高科技服务的需求量也在加大。
• The quest of a cure for disease with high-tech has never ceased. 人们希望运用高科技治疗疾病的追求从未停止过。

10 virtue   

n.德行，美德；贞操；优点；功效，效力

参考例句：

• He was considered to be a paragon of virtue.他被认为是品德尽善尽美的典范。
• You need to decorate your mind with virtue.你应该用德行美化心灵。

11 utilizing   

v.利用，使用( utilize的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Utilizing an assembler to produce a machine-language program. 用汇编程序产生机器语言的过程。 来自辞典例句
• The study and use of devices utilizing properties of materials near absolute zero in temperature. 对材料在接近绝对零度时的特性进行研究和利用的学科。 来自辞典例句