The pace of innovation in Zhongguancun has never stopped (magnificent 70 years, new era of struggle)

　　There is a feeling, unswerving; There is a spirit that crosses history; There is a struggle to reflect the future.

　　In the history of new China, there is a "village", which is closely linked with our country’s history and reality, spirit and material, dreams and struggles. It has become a spiritual symbol for generations of intellectuals to strive for the country’s prosperity and become a spiritual symbol for a country to pursue Excellence and bravely climb scientific peaks.

　　This "village" is Zhongguancun.

　　At the beginning of the founding of New China, it was a natural village in the suburbs of Beijing, with only farmhouses and vegetable fields. Zhongguancun is famous all over the world. It began in 1953 when the Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences moved in, and the scientific cause of New China was laid here. In the past 70 years, institutions of higher learning have taken root here, scientific research institutes have scattered branches and leaves here, and high-tech enterprises have been iteratively upgraded here. Zhongguancun has become the region with the densest scientific and technological resources, the strongest scientific and technological conditions and the richest scientific research achievements in China, which has played a leading role in implementing the innovation-driven development strategy throughout the country.

　　Entering a new era, Zhongguancun, as the main carrier of building a national science and technology innovation center, is accelerating its March towards a globally influential science and technology innovation center.

　　Patriotic dedication to earth-shattering cause

　　"National Nanoscience Center", which stands in the north of Zhongguancun overpass in the North Fourth Ring Road, is a new force in China’s scientific and technological competitiveness. There is a special monument beside the wall of the Nano Center. Fan Hongye, an expert in the history of science and technology, said: "This is the starting point of Zhongguancun construction."

　　At that time, the new China had just been established, and everything needed to be done. In November, 1951, the Chinese Academy of Sciences explored and located the field in the field named "Zhongguantun" in that year, and dug up the ground to build the first building in the Science City — — The building of Institute of Modern Physics is also called "Atomic Energy Building". Built in 1953, the building is called "the first building of the Republic Science". A group of successful international students sang "Don’t hesitate, don’t hesitate, go back to China, the motherland needs you … …” From the United States and Europe, break through the obstacles and return to the motherland that urgently needs talents.

　　"Do earth-shattering things and be anonymous." From 1950s to 1960s, seven winners of the "Two Bombs and One Satellite" Medal came out of this building: Qian Sanqiang, Wang Ganchang, Peng Huanwu, Deng Jiaxian, Yu Min, Zhu Guangya and Chen Fangyun. From 1955 to 1995, nearly 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences came out of this building, which "hatched" eight or nine new nuclear science research institutions and derived a huge group of research and development institutions.

　　An old man told reporters that Qian Sanqiang’s office was on the first floor, Peng Huanwu, Deng Jiaxian and Yu Min’s theoretical rooms were on the third floor, and Wang Ganchang’s cosmic ray room was on the fifth floor. From 1950s to 1980s, a large number of famous scientists were concentrated in several simple gray brick buildings in this area. They are unknown, doing one thing after another, earth-shattering things in a down-to-earth manner, and becoming the founders of various disciplines of modern science in New China.

　　"The greatest wish is to strengthen the country", which is almost the voice of a generation of scientists. With Zhongguancun as the fulcrum, they fought where the motherland needed them most. Patriotism, dedication, scientific spirit and climbing spirit are integrated with them and into the blood of "villagers", which has become the most precious spiritual inheritance of Zhongguancun.

　　Explore the way first and set the tide of reform and opening up.

　　In every important exploration of reform and opening up, Zhongguancun’s figure is firm and dazzling.

　　Scientists went into the sea, more than 40 years ago, which was unthinkable. In Zhongguancun, Chen Chunxian, a nuclear physicist at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, became the first person to eat crabs.

　　A broken table, a few broken stools, seven or eight people, and a half warehouse of five or six square meters … … On October 23, 1980, Chen Chunxian, who came back from an investigation in Silicon Valley, hung the sign of "Advanced Technology Development Service Department of Beijing Plasma Society" in front of a warehouse in the family area of Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Here, knowledge can be exchanged for wealth, and there can be income besides salary slips.

　　I’m used to eating from the same pot. Is this ok? In the controversy, Chen Chunxian was labeled as a "second-hand dealer in science and technology" and "profiteering".

　　"If universities will always be ivory towers and research institutes will always be technical academies that don’t ask about the market, and they will never be in contact with factories, then the spring breeze of science will never be closed." The early perception of the information age inspired Chen Chunxian’s other "dream of strengthening the country", and Chen Chunxian stubbornly persisted on the road to breaking the ice.

　　Times determine fate, and "scientific spring" brings the news of spring. In 1983, the central government made a final decision and the controversy vanished. Scientific and technological personnel went into the sea, and it has become a tide since then.

　　By 1987, Zhongguancun’s "Electronic Street" had reached a considerable scale, with a daily flow of 200,000 people and 148 scientific and technological enterprises, with a total sales of more than 900 million yuan, accounting for 37% of Haidian District’s total social income.

　　Coins always have two sides. In the early days of reform and opening up, Zhongguancun, which grew wildly, was accompanied by prosperity and chaos. There were illegal acts in the early market economy, and Zhongguancun was also the hardest hit. The voices of "banning", "banning" and "cleaning up" are rampant.

　　Amid all the noise, a report points out the direction of the times.

　　"The development of electronic street has impacted the old ideas, the old system that science and technology are out of touch with economy, explored the new way of combining science and technology with economy, explored the new way of starting and developing China’s high-tech industry, and provided new ideas for the reform of science and technology system, education system and economic system." On March 12, 1988, People’s Daily published a survey report on "Zhongguancun Electronic Street", which affirmed the practice of Zhongguancun.

　　Breaking the containment and barriers, Zhongguancun is one step ahead. On May 10th of the same year, the State Council approved the establishment of China’s first national high-tech zone — — Beijing new technology industry development experimental zone. From this day on, Zhongguancun was formally incorporated into the government development plan. Taking this as a symbol, China’s scientific and technological system reform has opened a new chapter.

　　China, which is reforming internally and opening to the outside world, needs to connect with the world. With the advent of the Internet age, Zhongguancun has once again been pushed to the forefront, leading China to "touch the net".

　　"How far are China people from the information superhighway — — 1500 meters to the north. " In Zhongguancun, Beijing in 1995, a huge billboard stood at the corner of the southern end of Baiyi Road (now Zhongguancun Street). The billboard refers to the earliest private Internet company in China — — Ying haiwei

　　In the previous year, Liu Chuanzhi, who had started his business in Zhongguancun for 10 years, established Lenovo Microcomputer Division, and China’s first 286 computer with less than 10,000 yuan was born in Zhongguancun.

　　The development of the Internet is about talents. It only takes six and a half days for international students to register a company; If the company is recognized as promising, it will also receive 80,000 yuan of "Support Fund for Overseas Students’ Entrepreneurship"; When the company makes money, it can also exchange all RMB for foreign exchange and take it away … … A series of first-try-first policies have enabled a large number of Internet "returnees" to lock in Zhongguancun.

　　In the spring of 2000 alone, among the 149 newly born enterprises in Zhongguancun, there were 50 internet companies, which was more than all the internet companies in China put together before. In this year, the number of Internet users in China increased tenfold compared with 2.04 million in 1998. A number of Internet companies, such as Sina, Sohu and Baidu, have grown in Zhongguancun … …

　　As if in an instant, Chinese has entered the Internet age.

　　Competitive world casts innovative and entrepreneurial ambitions.

　　New era, new struggle. Zhongguancun always has a young face, and innovation is its unchanging soul.

　　"Entrepreneurs just want to do what others think but dare not do." After 85, Yinqi, with his startup company "Defying Technology", chose face recognition with a very high threshold. "This is one of the core technologies of artificial intelligence. Without this, artificial intelligence has no eyes."

　　Faith, like a seed, can even sprout in a crack in the rock. In just three years, "face-brushing" has changed people’s payment methods, and our public safety model has also been reshaped because of this technology. "If a fugitive walks into an area covered by surveillance cameras, as long as he shows his face, he will be sure."

　　With the core technology, Defiance Technology has made great achievements in various international top artificial intelligence competitions for many times and won the first place in 25 world technology evaluations.

　　CAMBRIAN AI chip, deep learning supercomputing center of Shangtang Technology, and &hellip, Baidu’s first deep learning open source platform in China; … Today, with the tide of artificial intelligence sweeping the world, there are more than 400 artificial intelligence enterprises in Zhongguancun, with more than half of the national artificial intelligence backbone research units and more than 10 national key laboratories. Zhongguancun, the largest artificial intelligence innovation cluster in China, is changing the world we live in silently.

　　Innovation-driven, in essence, is talent-driven, and Zhongguancun’s core competitiveness lies in gathering all kinds of outstanding talents.

　　In 2012, Wang Xiaodong returned to China and became a recruit in Zhongguancun. Beijing Institute of Life Sciences and Baekje Shenzhou Biotechnology Co., Ltd., led by him, vowed to develop the best anticancer drugs for mankind. "What can be done in Silicon Valley can also be done in Zhongguancun."

　　In 2016, the fully humanized monoclonal antibody BGB— A317 has become a biological candidate drug approved for clinical trials in the United States.

　　"Through the efforts of generations of scientists and entrepreneurs, Zhongguancun has gradually formed an innovative and entrepreneurial culture characterized by being pragmatic, persevering, pursuing Excellence and serving the country through science and technology." Zhai Lixin, director of Zhongguancun Management Committee, said.

　　Artificial intelligence, integrated circuit design, 5G mobile communication, preparation of graphene materials, liquid metal, innovative drug & HELIP; … In the key technical fields, a new generation of Zhongguancun people have practiced the initial intention of serving the country through science and technology with struggle.

　　The figures prove it: In 2018, enterprises in Zhongguancun Demonstration Zone applied for 86,395 patents, up 17.0% year-on-year, and obtained 53,982 patents, up 24.4% year-on-year, with 98,624 valid invention patents. Enterprises with more than 100 patent applications accounted for nearly 50% of the applications in the demonstration area, and enterprises in the demonstration area applied for 4,596 PCT patents, accounting for 70.4% of the PCT patent applications in Beijing during the same period.

　　Just like a window in China, the pace of innovation never stops in Zhongguancun!