Recently, ChinaSoft 2023, the largest and most influential academic conference in China's software industry, opened at Shanghai International Conference Center. Jin Li, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of Fudan University, Mei Hong, Chairman of CCF, Honorary Chairman of ChinaSoft 2023Executive Committee and Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhang Ying, Chairman of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informationiozation, delivered speeches.
Ms. Zhang pointed out that software plays an important and fundamental supporting role in the digitalization process. Shanghai actively implements the strategy of national manufacturing power, network power and digital China, accelerates the development of the whole chain of basic software, industrial software, industry software and platform software, strengthens the integration and driving effect of software with industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence and cloud edge computing, and comprehensively promotes the high-quality development of software industry. Shanghai will fully support the construction of a modern industrial system and the digital transformation of the city. First, it is essential to accelerate the research on key underlying technologies, adhere to demand traction and application traction, support the industrialization of research and development of open platforms and tool sets covering key technologies such as general algorithm sets, knowledge processing, deep search and visual interaction, and facilitate collaborative research and integrated innovation among upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain. Second, it is critical to fully support the application of innovative products, make full use of the advantages of comprehensive scenes in Shanghai megacities, make good use of important platforms such as Information Consumption Festival, explore innovative mechanisms such as software recommendation catalogues, encourage new technologies, new products, new models and new applications to take the lead in Shanghai, and promote key enterprises to enter the international market and participate in global competitions. And third, it is also important to continuously optimize the ecology of industrial development, build a cooperation mechanism between government, industry, university and research, increase the construction of innovation carriers, speed up the training of professional talents, and gather more industrial innovation resources through open source and opening up.
