Chinese scientist Tan Tieniu (谭铁牛) won the most prestigious award in the field of pattern recognition for his exceptional achievements. Since 1988 the award was created, this is the first time the award is given to a person outside of North America and Europe.
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BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- China has witnessed growth in the number of patent transfers and licenses over the past year, the country's top intellectual property (IP) regulator said on Wednesday.
In 2021, the number of patent transfers and licenses nationwide reached 420,000, up 15 percent year on year. Among them, the growth rate in low-carbon industries such as green new energy is more than twice the national average, the National Intellectual Property Administration revealed at its monthly press conference.
The number of patent transfers and licenses in Chinese universities and research institutes reached 27,000, a year-on-year increase of 33.4 percent, of which 30 percent of the patents belonged to strategic emerging industries, a spokesperson for the administration said.
Lei Chaozi, head of the science and technology department of the Ministry of Education, attributed the progress to efforts in talent cultivation.
Many universities have set up secondary disciplines or interdisciplinary disciplines related to intellectual property, and over 100 Chinese universities have established IP undergraduate programs, with more than 12,000 students, said the official.
He also highlighted that university patent transfer and licensing agreements vaulted from 2,357 in 2012 to over 15,000 in 2021. The monetary value of patent commercialization amounted to 8.89 billion yuan (about 1.3 billion U.S. dollars) from 820 million yuan during the period.
"It is an achievement of both quantity and quality trending up simultaneously," Lei said.
智能中国——数字化转型进行时
Intelligent China -- Digital Transformation UnderwayThis is a series of stories about intelligent digital transformation in real world scenarios. These stories are "being" "underway", not will have, would have, can have or could have. This is a playground that all of us technologists have been dreaming of engaging. One can get a sense of progress in all things high-tech or deep-tech in 21st century modern life.
The published the result of three major R&D projects. [IIRC this is the lab that demostrated a 6G network prototype a while ago.]
1. a large scale wide area deterministic networking system,
This wide area network covers 36 cities including Beijing, Nanjing and Shanghai. With total distance over 13000km, even when the bandwidth utilization is at 100%, there is zero packet loss and the network latency jitter is less than 20 microseconds (a microsecond is a millionth of 1 second).
For reference, see this ZTE paper on .
2. a cloud-native operating system for computation network,
It can support up to 1 million tenants, 100 thousand computation clusters, 10 thousand blockchain transactions concurrently.
[I am not sure whether I have read the Chinese description of it correctly. Please correct me if I am wrong.]
3. a wireless transport testbench for .
In the 385~435GHz band, it has achieved 200Gbps of "online transport (在线传输)" and 1Tbps of "offline transport (离线传输)". This is the highest published transport speed in the TeraHz band.
[Again I am not sure about the translation as it is not my field.]
Construction of the core steel structure of the "4 second electromagnetic catapult for micro gravity experiments" completed and passed inspection recently.
This catapult can create high-G and near zero-G by shooting a capsul vertically up to 40m high in 2 seconds then let it drop back on ground in another 2 seconds. The goal is to simulate the different gravities in space, on the moon and on Mars.
BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese search engine giant Baidu revealed its first quantum computer on Thursday and is ready to make it available to external users, joining the global race to apply the technology to practical uses.
The Baidu-developed quantum computer, dubbed "Qianshi," has a 10-quantum-bit (qubit) processor, Baidu said in a statement. The Beijing-based company has also developed a 36-qubit quantum chip, it said.
Governments and companies around the world for years have touted the potential of quantum computing, a form of high-speed calculation at extraordinarily cold temperatures that will bring computers to unprecedented processing speeds.
However, current real-world applications in the field are still very basic and limited to a small group of early clients.
The United States, China and the European Union have initiated massively funded projects in quantum computing, hoping to pull ahead in the field, which is often considered as one of the cornerstones on which the new global supremacy will be determined.
Global governments and companies will invest around $16.4 billion in quantum development by the end of 2027, according to market researcher IDC.
U.S. tech giant IBM has said that it plans to make a quantum computer ready for commercial use in 2025 with a more-than-4,000 qubit processor. IBM has so far released quantum processors with 127 qubits.
Alphabet Inc's Google is also aiming to develop a computer with 1,000,000 qubits by the end of this decade.
China Daily's take...
By FAN FEIFEI | China Daily | Updated: 2022-08-26 09:07
Visitors review Baidu products relating to quantum computing at Quantum Create 2022 in Beijing on Thursday. CHINA DAILY
Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc on Thursday unveiled its first superconducting quantum computer and the world's first all-platform quantum hardware-software integration solution, a significant step in bolstering the long-awaited industrialization of quantum computing technology, industry experts said.
Quantum computing refers to the use of quantum mechanics to run calculations and it solves computation problems more efficiently than traditional computers. The new technology will speed up the computational power that drives many industries and affects everything from drug discoveries to how data is secured, experts added.
Baidu's industry-level superconducting quantum computer Qian Shi fully integrates hardware, software and applications, while its quantum solution Liang Xi offers versatile quantum services through cloud services and hardware access. Users can conveniently visit these quantum computational resources via mobile apps, PCs and the cloud, the company said.
"With Qian Shi and Liang Xi, users can create quantum algorithms and use quantum computing power without developing their own quantum hardware, control systems or programming languages," said Duan Runyao, director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at Baidu Research, at Quantum Create 2022, the company's first quantum developer conference.
Liu Yinchun, deputy secretary-general of Beijing's municipal government, said the newly launched superconducting quantum computer and solutions are conducive to lowering the application threshold of quantum computing and providing new paths for bolstering the development of the quantum computing industry.
Beijing will support cooperation among universities, research institutes and enterprises, promote quantum computing from laboratory to real-world applications, and enable the cutting-edge technology to empower various industries, Liu said.
China will speed up frontier science and technological layouts, such as quantum computing and quantum communication, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).
In recent years, the country has achieved a series of breakthroughs in quantum technology, including the world's first quantum communication satellite, which was developed by the University of Science and Technology of China, a 2,000-kilometer quantum communication line between Beijing and Shanghai, and the world's first optical quantum computing machine prototype.
Quantum computing will bring groundbreaking transformations in fields like artificial intelligence, computational biology, material simulation and financial technology, experts said.
In addition, tech companies such as Google, IBM and Microsoft are accelerating steps to develop quantum computing platforms. Chinese tech heavyweights including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have also tapped into the quantum computing sector.
According to a report from market consultancy International Data Corp, the scale of the global quantum computing industry is forecast to grow from $412 million in 2020 to $8.6 billion in 2027, representing a six-year compound annual growth rate of 50.9 percent.
"Quantum information technology mainly includes quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum precision measurement. The core lies in quantum computing," said Xiang Tao, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
With the development of quantum computing, quantum technology will extend into every aspect of information processing, Xiang said, adding its industrialization will inject new vitality into the research of quantum computing and accelerate the development of quantum computers.
Baidu ready to make next quantum leap
By FAN FEIFEI | China Daily | Updated: 2022-08-26 09:07
Chinese tech giant Baidu Inc on Thursday unveiled its first superconducting quantum computer and the world's first all-platform quantum hardware-software integration solution, a significant step in bolstering the long-awaited industrialization of quantum computing technology, industry experts said.
Quantum computing refers to the use of quantum mechanics to run calculations and it solves computation problems more efficiently than traditional computers. The new technology will speed up the computational power that drives many industries and affects everything from drug discoveries to how data is secured, experts added.
Baidu's industry-level superconducting quantum computer Qian Shi fully integrates hardware, software and applications, while its quantum solution Liang Xi offers versatile quantum services through cloud services and hardware access. Users can conveniently visit these quantum computational resources via mobile apps, PCs and the cloud, the company said.
"With Qian Shi and Liang Xi, users can create quantum algorithms and use quantum computing power without developing their own quantum hardware, control systems or programming languages," said Duan Runyao, director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at Baidu Research, at Quantum Create 2022, the company's first quantum developer conference.
Liu Yinchun, deputy secretary-general of Beijing's municipal government, said the newly launched superconducting quantum computer and solutions are conducive to lowering the application threshold of quantum computing and providing new paths for bolstering the development of the quantum computing industry.
Beijing will support cooperation among universities, research institutes and enterprises, promote quantum computing from laboratory to real-world applications, and enable the cutting-edge technology to empower various industries, Liu said.
China will speed up frontier science and technological layouts, such as quantum computing and quantum communication, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).
In recent years, the country has achieved a series of breakthroughs in quantum technology, including the world's first quantum communication satellite, which was developed by the University of Science and Technology of China, a 2,000-kilometer quantum communication line between Beijing and Shanghai, and the world's first optical quantum computing machine prototype.
Quantum computing will bring groundbreaking transformations in fields like artificial intelligence, computational biology, material simulation and financial technology, experts said.
In addition, tech companies such as Google, IBM and Microsoft are accelerating steps to develop quantum computing platforms. Chinese tech heavyweights including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent have also tapped into the quantum computing sector.
According to a report from market consultancy International Data Corp, the scale of the global quantum computing industry is forecast to grow from $412 million in 2020 to $8.6 billion in 2027, representing a six-year compound annual growth rate of 50.9 percent.
"Quantum information technology mainly includes quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum precision measurement. The core lies in quantum computing," said Xiang Tao, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
With the development of quantum computing, quantum technology will extend into every aspect of information processing, Xiang said, adding its industrialization will inject new vitality into the research of quantum computing and accelerate the development of quantum computers.