"We were not from Shenzhen before, but we all liked Shenzhen!"

"Li Zexiang, Gao Wen, and Shen Xiangyang were familiar with it in their early years. Now they return to China to develop, and they have come to Shenzhen!" On July 10, Xu Yangsheng, the principal of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), mentioned in an interview with reporters. Old friends "" gathered in Shenzhen ", all of which were" opportunities "and" coincidence ".

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Open these four "big coffee" -level figures, Jin Guang's glittering resume, they are glory at different stages of their lives, but there are many "intersections" in the development trajectory. Xu Yangsheng recalled that in the early 1990s, he and Shen Xiangyang met at an international conference. Because of the same research field, Xu Yangsheng recommended Shen Xiangyang, a professor at the School of Computer, the University of Carnegie Mellon University, to the college. Gao Wen also introduced to the school as a visiting scholar. In 1979, Li Zexiang sent him to study in the United States and studied undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University. Because he often returned to school, they often gathered together.

"We are not from Shenzhen before, but we all like Shenzhen!" Xu Yangsheng said.

Li Zexiang and Shenzhen were associated with Shenzhen in the 1990s. In 1999, Li Zexiang, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, founded Gu Gao Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen. Entrepreneurship representatives successfully hatched well -known enterprises such as DJI, and worked and lived in the three places in Shenzhen and Hong Kong all year round. Practitioner; Gao Wen has been the director of Pengcheng Laboratory in March 2018, leading the laboratory to build a major scientific and technological infrastructure platform such as "Pengcheng Cloud Brain", which is known as the "super brain" of the artificial intelligence "super brain";

Shen Xiangyang came to Shenzhen in November 2020. He served as the Digital Economic Research Institute of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, which was the chairman, is committed to creating more digital economy industries in Shenzhen, leading the digital economy in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area to a new height.

Xu Yangsheng told reporters that there are three points that attract them most in Shenzhen: the first is the open and inclusiveness of the immigrant city; the second is the passion and vitality of young cities, and the atmosphere of encouraging innovation is very good; the third is marketization, rule of law, and internationalization mechanism It runs well. "These three points are not only very important for economic development, but also in the field of scientific research. This is Shenzhen's eternal appeal."

Talent is the first resource for development. In recent years, Shenzhen has adhered to the innovation -driven strategy, bred many innovative carriers, fully build a market -oriented international business environment, systematically reconstructs and optimizes the talent policy system, and has formed a new peak period for talent gathering. In 2021, there were 4,500 new high -level talents, 4 newly elected academicians, and 20 newly full -time academicians. The total number of full -time academicians reached 77; 31 people were selected as the global "high -cited scientists" list; research and testing Developers have a full time of full -time equivalence of 346,000 people, ranking first in cities across the country ... Today's Shenzhen is accelerating the desire for excellent scientists and innovative talents in the world. The four "big coffees" gathered in Shenzhen, which is one of the vivid epitome.

Why do the four "big coffee" choose Shenzhen as an important stop for continuing brilliant resumes? Let's take a look at their stories with Shenzhen.

Li Zexiang:

The next world -class Silicon Valley is most likely in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area

"Twenty years ago, what we wanted to do, even what we didn't expect at all, became a reality today." In 2020, the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone Innovation and Entrepreneurs and Advanced Models (hereinafter referred to as "40 years 40 Li Zexiang's emotion.

Li Zexiang graduated from the University of Carnegie Mellon in 1983, obtained a PhD in motor and computer engineering at the University of California Berkeley, and joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1992 to serve as a professor at the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering. Robotics Institute.

In 1999, it was the period when Hong Kong's cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong returned to the motherland was rapidly heating up. Essence

The rise of DJI can be said to have a exploration of Li Zexiang. He set up a robot competition course at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Through 8 months of "Devil Training", he cultivated students' hands -on ability and teamwork ability, especially learning to use Shenzhen's supply chain to create products. In this course, Wang Tao practiced twice. In 2006, Wang Tao founded DJI with Li Zexiang during his studies. He used Shenzhen's good science and technology entrepreneurial environment and industrial chain advantages, and combined with Hong Kong's creativity and network closely linked to the world. Drone companies.

In the United States, Li Zexiang observed Silicon Valley closely to a glimpse of the innovation secrets behind high -tech companies. And where is the most likely to appear in the next world -class Silicon Valley? Li Zexiang believes that it is the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. What the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology does in Shenzhen and other places is actually wanting to copy the Silicon Valley model.

When he was also teaching in Hong Kong, Li Zexiang saw the potential of Shenzhen separated from Hong Kong. "Many people study Silicon Valley, which attribute Silicon Valley's innovation system to the innovation environment, that is, government support, science and technology entrepreneurial parks, university cooperation, cultural atmosphere, etc. In fact, as long as these factors are available, a large number of innovative companies It will come out. The north bank of the Pearl River Delta, especially Shenzhen, is led by leading companies such as Huawei and Tencent, and more and more small and medium -sized enterprises with innovative capabilities emerge. " Go to Shenzhen and Songshan Lake. "Li Zexiang often inspired students. Starting from Wang Tao, students of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have returned to their mainland to start a business. Li Zexiang believes that the supply chain system that has developed in the past 40 years of Guangshen Guan and surroundings has provided great support for the college entrepreneurs. "This may be the most complete, fastest, and most cost -effective supply chain ecology in the world. Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley will come here to complete the product iteration."

The resume of the past 20 years has made Li Zexiang a representative of "college faction" innovation and entrepreneurship. Known as the "sweeping monk" of the science and technology industry, he accompanied the students to start a business. In the circle, the angel investment model of the "mentor+student" created by Li Zexiang was quite influential.

"Shenzhen provides a stage for young people all over the world to realize their dreams. Compared with more than ten years ago, the entire entrepreneurial environment, talent training environment, and innovative ecology are a lot mature. Working and living at speeds, I believe that here will cultivate a large number of technology companies that are influential in China and even the world. "Li Zexiang said.

Today, Li Zexiang has another new identity -the initiator of Shenzhen University of Science and Technology and Innovation. This is an innovative talent training college of a new mechanism. Share with more young people who are interested in science and technology entrepreneurship.

"The development of Shenzhen has reached another height. It is necessary to innovate and break through the ideas of ideas, focus on the combination of theoretical knowledge and the actual industry, and improve the ability of local self -cultivation to cultivate first -class science and technology talents. Work, especially paying attention to stimulating young people's innovation ability. "

Xu Yangsheng:

Go to the world's own world -class universities well

In the 1990s, Xu Yangsheng, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, has entered Carnegie Mellon University more than ten years later than Li Zexiang. He served as a researcher and director of the Space Robotics Laboratory at the Institute of Robotics of the School of Computer School. Hong Kong returned in 1997, and Xu Yangsheng, who had always been in love, gave up the U.S.'s rich scientific research conditions and treatment to return to China and taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Similar to Li Zexiang's "path", Xu Yangsheng first taught in Hong Kong colleges and universities after returning to China, and came to Shenzhen for deepening cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Promotional is the winner of the "40 -year -old 40" honor in Shenzhen.

In 2006, Shenzhen established a plan for the "Shenzhen -Hong Kong Innovation Circle", which made Xu Yangsheng's thinking on Shenzhen -Hong Kong cooperative schools gradually clear and clear. Behind scientific and technological innovation is talent. Behind talent is education, especially higher education. Shenzhen needs to create a first -class international research university as a talent and academic support for scientific and technological innovation. After attending the "Shenzhen -Hong Kong Innovation Circle" seminar organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Government in April that year, Xu Yang was born to draft the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Shenzhen's cooperative school running.

In 2013, Xu Yangsheng came to Shenzhen to serve as the principal of Hong Kong University (Shenzhen) Chuang School. Recalling this experience, he "disclosed" that although he did a lot of preliminary work for the construction of the University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), he also hesitated for whether he should be the principal of the founding school. He is an academic background and has to do scientific research. If he is the principal, administrative affairs will occupy a lot of time and energy. What prompted him to make up his mind was a sentence at a commemorative ceremony about the 100th anniversary of the 1911 Revolution. "The financial expert in front of me said at the end of the lecture that the 100 years after the 1911 Revolution were also the" returnees' return to the country and the nation and committed to the 100 years of modernization in China. Come here, what should I do for the next 100 years? I thought at the time, what I should do is to do a good world -class university in China. "

In addition to the sense of mission of "doing well in the world's own world -class universities", it has prompted Xu Yangsheng to provoke the burden of the principal of Hong Kong University (Shenzhen), as well as the "future" -the beautiful future of Shenzhen scientific and technological innovation and education iterative development. The beautiful future of Shenzhen -Hong Kong integration and development.

Xu Yangsheng often mentioned that from the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government to Longgang District, it all gave unconditional support for Hong Kong University (Shenzhen). At first, Shenzhen had identified several alternative schools to Hong Kong University of China. A land near Xili Liuxian Cave was the main intention, but after Xu Yangsheng's investigation, it was near the Longgang Grand Canal City, and the municipal government accepted his proposal; The school did not eat at noon at noon in the early days of the school, and Longgang District arranged for the master master of the district government cafeteria to go to the school ... These big things reflecting Shenzhen's urgent and practical services to attract high -quality resources and introduce talents.

Hong Kong has 5 universities in the world's top 100, and many Hong Kong school talents have seek opportunities to develop in the Mainland. Shenzhen, which is separated by the river, is very eager for high -quality educational resources and talents. The development space and resources of colleges and universities are a win -win opportunity for Hong Kong and the Mainland. The trend of the times rushed forward, and the choice of personal career development was successful due to the times. At the beginning of the fall of 2020, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone had just passed the 40th birthday. Xu Yangsheng gave the students a word from the heart: "It is Shenzhen people", he himself proudly welcomes the arrival of the new students as Shenzhen people.

Not long ago, in the conference room on the second floor of the administrative building in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Xu Yangsheng wrote the six large characters in the "Greater Bay Area" to congratulate Hong Kong's 25th anniversary of returning to the motherland. Xu Yangsheng said that the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area will definitely move towards a large integration. In the next 20 years, Shenzhen will become the world's international talent center, innovation technology center, and fintech center. "Leader" role. "We need first -class international research universities as leaders of the Greater Bay Area. Such schools are most likely to appear in Shenzhen."

Gao Wen:

Strive to build a world -class strategic technology forces

After Xu Yangsheng went north to Shenzhen, he was determined to "make a good world -class university of Chinese people", Gao Wen also went south to Shenzhen and started a new "hard work": After Guangdong launched the first batch of provincial laboratories, 2018 In March, Gao Wen came to Shenzhen and became the director of Pengcheng Lab. "Since the beginning of his own scientific research career, the most devoted effort is Pengcheng Lab. Fit in the goal of building China into an innovative country. . The responsibility of Pengcheng Lab is to solve some problems, do some accumulation, and form a core team. I firmly believe that this matter can be done. "

In recent years, Shenzhen has unswervingly implemented the innovation -driven development strategy, continuously improved the entire process of innovation ecological chain, accelerated the construction of the comprehensive national science center of the Greater Bay Area, strengthened strategic technological forces, accelerated key core technology research Technology self -reliance contributed to Shenzhen's power.

Those who are pregnant with the country, the common mission of the national strategic responsibility, may also be one of the reasons for the "big coffee" to choose Shenzhen.

In March of last year, at the 3rd anniversary of the establishment of Pengcheng Labs, the four major scientific devices such as "Pengcheng Cloud Brain", "Pengcheng Shooter", "Pengcheng Cloud Network" and "Pengcheng Ecology" were initially built. It said "has reached the established goal, and has grown into an important part of the national strategic technology forces. In the future, the laboratory will focus on the long -term goals and needs of the construction of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area and the Shenzhen Pioneer Demonstration Zone. Carry out the research of strategic, forward -looking, basic scientific issues and key core technologies in the field, and strive to produce a number of iconic and leading major innovation results. "

In April of this year, the technical acceptance and results evaluation of the "Pengcheng Cloud Brain II major technology infrastructure project -AI cluster software and hardware system" was held in Shenzhen. The leaders of the computing industry in the conference agreed that "Pengcheng Cloud Brain" not only achieved the number one indicator in the world, but also made useful explorations for the construction of "China Computing Power Network".

This is a new milestone on the international AI technology competition main track, and it is also the latest achievement in Shenzhen to strengthen strategic technology and accelerate the construction of Pengcheng Laboratory.

For Shenzhen, which is actively advanced into basic innovation and source innovation, it is especially important to have a high -level laboratory, especially a laboratory that can strengthen strategic technology. The rapid development of Pengcheng Lab will not only provide strong support for the construction of the Greater Bay Area Comprehensive National Science Center. In the future, the laboratory will form a collaborative role in combining other major scientific and technological infrastructure, and its space will be more broad.

Shen Xiangyang:

Technology "Big Coffee" Shenzhen spectrum new chapter

Shen Xiangyang is the new "Shenzhen" among the four "big coffees".

In 2019, after Shen Xiangyang retired from Microsoft, he wrote in the farewell letter of that year: "At this stage of life, I think it is time to start a new chapter; ; Think about researchers and engineers in the field of computing science for the next generation, what else can you do. "

At the end of 2020, an international innovative research institution named the Digital Economic Research Institute named the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area was established in the Shenzhen River Set Shenzhen -Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone. Shen Xiangyang was appointed as the chairman. At this time, Shen Xiangyang's "new chapter" officially appeared.

That year, at the first Global Innovation Talent Forum held in Shenzhen, Shen Xiangyang and Gao Wen gave a speech on the same stage. At that time, the message he wrote to Shenzhen was "The World Needs A Few Good Ideas" (the world needs some good ideas).

In Shen Xiangyang's view, the Digital Economic Research Institute of Shenzhen and the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area has the genes of entrepreneurs. With the strong support of the government and the in -depth participation of the enterprise, he hopes that the Institute can build a closed loop of innovation in the future and cultivate a large number of outstanding scientific research and industrial talents for the society.

For more than a year in Shenzhen, Shen Xiangyang finally turned himself into a busy person like an "entrepreneur", but because he had a dream in his heart, he was full of energy. "To realize the research institute in your heart, it is to be promoted with 'scientists' minds, entrepreneurs 'quality, and entrepreneurs' spirit." Shen Xiangyang said so, so. At the 2021 Research Institute conference, Shen Xiangyang's scientists with the Research Institute "in one breath" released six major products. Shen Xiangyang said that doing technology must look up at the starry sky and down -to -earth. While the new technology is constantly transforming, it is necessary to ensure that the new technology can be implemented and act on each product line.

"The real remarkable technology in the world is like magic. This is my favorite words." Shen Xiangyang believes that in the final analysis, technological innovation is the most disruptive.

On the 10th, Shen Xiangyang, who was traveling on a business trip in Hong Kong, also remembered the encounter of the four people to reporters: In 1990, he went to the United States to participate in the ICRA (International Robot and Automation Conference) in the United States for the first time in 1990. At that time When they met two Chinese, one was Xu Yangsheng and the other was Li Zexiang. During his Ph.D. in Carnegie Mellon University in 1993, the first visiting scholar he received from China was Gao Wen.

"Now our four old friends are in Shenzhen." Shen Xiangyang said with emotion that Shenzhen attaches great importance to talents. Many scientists in the Digital Economic Research Institute of the Greater Bay Area also came from all over the world to Shenzhen. In Shenzhen, Shenzhen has a good industrial environment and an increasingly academic atmosphere. I believe that the appropriate soil and water will cultivate a batch of great talents in the future.

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