What they say
General Secretary Xi attaches great importance to innovation. He concluded that China’s economy has been transitioning from a phase of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development, and innovation is the primary driving force behind development. I think it’s an excellent summary. When General Secretary Xi shook hands with me, he encouraged me by noting that our scale has already become big, and we should think about how to do better in the next step. I think we should expand vigorously overseas. Besides communication and social networking, we also have a brilliant overseas future in the digital culture and content industry. After I introduced our “FineArt” artificial intelligence, which just won a worldwide computer go tournament, he asked me immediately how that compares with AlphaGo. I said we have no idea now, because the two haven’t had a competition yet, but it is our goal to surpass it someday.
Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings
I will tell my colleagues that General Secretary Xi is concerned about our migrant workers and knows the details of our problems. When it comes to people’s livelihoods, he always takes the initiative to communicate with us, so it feels like he particularly cares about our grassroots and front-line employees. I’ll tell them to settle down on their jobs as the government continues to solve our children’s problems and other worries. I want them to feel the concern of the central and local governments.
Mi Xuemei, a migrant worker in Zhongshan, Guangdong province
General Secretary Xi made it clear that we should attract talent from around the world. For our enterprises, we open our mind and absorb all kinds of elites into our team who are interested in doing innovative technology, and turn our small team into a large and effective innovation team. On the other hand, it is a great promotion for the society and the government to support talent innovations, including Guangdong province’s plan to introduce an overseas team on innovation and technology, as well as Shenzhen’s “Peacock Plan”. The two plans both aim at building new capacity for innovation on the basis of talent. So this is a critical development for our enterprises.
Liu Ruopeng, chairman of Kuang-Chi Group