China has become the most technologic advanced country of the world
Ashutosh K.
Ex banker, Now self-employed, MD &CEO of Kumar Group of companies, Author of many books.
THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL INNOVATION IN CHINA
?There are several megatrends determining the future of China’s digital ecosystem. How does China emerged as one of the global largest digital economics within a small span, has astonished the world?
A billion internet users have propelled China’s e-commerce sales growth up to about $ 2.00 trillion in ?2021, equal to about 40 percent of all retail sales in China. However, what is very surprising emerging a lot of ?“China-first” innovation is in the field of several spheres, like,??omnichannel retail, social medium, on-demand services, mobility, fintech, health tech, Insutech, Edutech, food tech, and much more.
The reason behind this can be summarized below:
1.????A vast digital consumer base, impediment to rapidly reach scale, a digital ecosystem that nurtures innovation, and the shaping role of government.
2.???The major forces and technological enablers are e-commerce and omnichannel; social commerce; the on-demand economy; shared mobility; distribution; FinTech; EdTech; and HealthTech.
3.???The new megatrends driving digital innovation in China: The great retail integration; The virtualization of services; The mobility revolution; Digitization of social life; Industrial IoT / supply chain digitization; and digital urbanization.
?But is digital innovation in China relevant to the rest of the world? Irrespective of having an existence in China or not, they are taking a cue from, nothing other than the have speed and scale have China’s digital ecosystem players are lashing innovations that are is revaluating the need to manage a company in the present globalized, progressively digitized economy.
Some of the areas which are making Chinese company ?are asserting the limits of management are as under:
1.????Engaging companies in China display the liveliness and agility of a small startup while refining the organizational and operational capabilities they need to drive initiatives at the scale of a very big company.
2.????The fortunate l companies pursue an externally-driven, internally-focused Darwinian-style process of “creative destruction” and constructive competition that conduits resources toward the right engines of growth, while quickly casting aside businesses that fail to gain traction and reach scale.
3.???Third, this method is often enabled by the installation of “middle office” capabilities that offer the platform to rapidly incubate and scale new business models in some of the areas.
4.???The numero uno companies are blurring the organizational boundaries between strategy, organization, and execution. The idea that they are discrete areas of management no longer relevant. Now the government regulating the activities of some of the largest internet players in China has caused some uncertainty over the digital ecosystem. Top management and Executives and stakeholders around the globe are keenly watching this space.
Like any other country, ?China is also keeping a tight vigil?as a regulator having objectives?to monitor and manage the happenings of the internet platforms to prevent the sudden occurrence which has a damaging effect on business model innovation and the prosperity and safety of society at large. But a subtle change has been made with so an exponential pace in China that has baffled many players and investors locally and globally.
The scale and thrust in so many digital realms have made a robust ecosystem that will pave the speed of power more further progress and invention. It will be better for the companies across the world to understand the working for ?China’s digital ecosystem, and the future capability to be able to gear themselves to adopt the future possibilities in this area to be competitive and thriving.
As a consequence of the country's stunning leap toward being a trendsetter in AI, face recognition-enabled ticket checking machines have been deployed in a growing number of railway stations across the country. Face recognition clocking in machines is also becoming commonplace in the country. Thanks to broad-base applications of AI technology into everyday life and the workplace, these technological advancements helped in the quick and effective tracing of virus infections, with the country ahead of other major economies in emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a sign of the country's fabulous stride from a manufacturing hub to a global technology power into the future, China holds 389,571 out of over 520,000 AI patent applications globally over the past decade, according to findings in a report by the Tsinghua University Artificial Intelligence Research Institute earlier this year.
The four Chinese AI heavyweights - Megvii, SenseTime Group, YITU Technology, and CloudWalk - have also in recent years bagged lots of world-class AI-related awards, notably in photo recognition and algorithm terms.?
?DIGITAL INNOVATION MEGATRENDS TO OBSERVE ATTENTIVELY WATCH
Now it is necessary to comprehend in terms of digital innovation in China, which will be the future of digital preparation to peer, it can be grasped from the below-mentioned megatrends so perceptible and prepare the?executives?insight about considering their corporate strategy.
THE EVOLUTION OF MOBILITY
China’s extremely advanced collective mobility network will be more powered by the accessibility of electric vehicles (EVs) and allied “smart vehicles”, with full self-directed driving fleets on the skyline. As the hardware behind mobility solutions becomes gradually commoditized, digital innovation will become the key player in the battle for market share, driving innovation in software, solutions, and services, and laying new prospects for agile and inventive companies. The Chinese consumer will drive disruption, bringing their renowned adaptability and desire for new innovations in the field of on the auto arena. New competitors are top which is proved by the accomplishment of local EV brands like Nio, Li Auto, and Xpeng.
Crucial factors like new business models and networks, are offering customer experience, like, ?no queue customer operations and broadened consumer connections at knowledge centers and battery swop stations will not be easy for traditional automakers to adopt. A ?sustained advances in in-vehicle technology, having smart features that progress connectivity and safety, and vehicles to be upgraded via OTA (over the air). ?China’s advantage pivots on state support for smart transportation.
AI applications in transportation and autonomous driving will also ease the acceleration of mobility as a service (MaaS). Conspicuously, Beijing plans to reduce passenger car transportation usage by 30 percent by 2035. This push should promote the commercialization of MaaS services, centered around EVs. China’s initiative to reach peak carbon emissions by 2030, and carbon neutrality in 2050, may spur EV MaaS offerings to reach the next level.
?Didi has made a partnership with GAC Aion, an offshoot of GAC Group, to change a fleet of self-driving EVs, with an aim mass 1 million robotaxis on its platform between 2025 and 2030.
In 2035, the government is targeting the large-scale roll-out and commercialization of robotaxis and L5 (fully automated) autonomous vehicles. Consequently, commercialization may occur faster than expected: autonomous based robotaxis could account for 22 percent of the shared mobility passenger-kilometers by 2030 in tier 1 cities like
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EVs, drones, self-driving delivery vans, and eco-packaging will combine to improve delivery speeds, lower costs and emissions, and open up infrastructure and capacity sharing extending help for more integration of China’s retail and e-commerce ecosystem, to make smarter and make it smarter and more competent. To find a way to mitigate e high cost-to-serve issues., ?Beijing has permitted JD.com and Meituan to partner with autonomous delivery vehicle start-up Neolix to pilot driverless grocery deliveries, building on advances made during a mid-pandemic push for contactless services.
SOCIAL LIFE IN THE DIGITALIZATION
The fictional science stories portrayed in admired popular novels are rapidly undergoing into the “real” world. It is noticed that the Chinese are affecting their social interactions and leisure activities into virtual realms. Virtual and physical social happenings are also assimilated by way of virtual groups. Life itself is becoming O2O.
It may be possibly adopted in lower-tier cities lacking prospects limited to network face-to-face. New types of community emerging like an app-linked bicycle community, the online games streaming sites such as Huya and DouYu,, ?people connected by the liking of a specific title, genre, or Livestream congregation are taking chatroom interactions into the real world, organizing yoga classes and running clubs.
Leading digital players like Tencent are structuring groups that unite gaming, e-commerce, and social, creating a decentralized, competitive, and creator-friendly ecosystem, a “metaverse” like Facebook converting into meta. .
?BUSINESS IOT / SUPPLY CHAIN DIGITIZATION
The digital revolution is renovating distribution in consumer retail and have the potential for digitization to streamline B2B operations and processes. It helped ?China’s digital development with immense scope for efficiency gains, as the industrial internet of things (IIOT) is deployed at scale to transform digital manufacturing, digital supply chain development, and blockchain-based inventory management.
The pharma ?Yaoshibang, an online B2B drug sales platform, processed 1.6 million orders in February 2021, triple the same of Feb ?2020, and implying its probable for such platforms to thrive if we take a look at?the wide level ?Chinese healthcare orders are processed and fulfilled online.
Manufacturing companies will increasingly embrace IIOT-enabled digital manufacturing to enhance proficiency and maintain it. ?China introduced 11 “lighthouse” manufacturing bases, paradigms of industry 4.0 advanced manufacturing processes, ?the highest of any country.
?Midea installs IIOT technologies to advance manufacturing processes and care product innovation by sensor-enabled “flexible automation” assembly lines, the manufacturing process is fully automated and enthusiastically adjustable to address transformations in machine models, processing requirements, and materials. Machine vision is applied to detect errors in manufacturing processes, while IIOT-enabled machines send back customer usage data to R&D teams, providing valuable input and insights that help drive a continuous process of innovation.
SAIC, a leading automaker, ?digital manufacturing has enabled totally entirely novel, customer-to-business (C2B) models, It means digital solutions enable buyers to tailor their orders via 3D digital car simulations. Car configuration and production queue information is then transmitted to suppliers to initiate just in- sequence shipment, reducing time to market by 35 percent. ?AI tools unceasingly monitor build progress to identify errors, giving confirmation accuracy to 99.8 percent. As the majority of lighthouses mechanism in consumer-facing industries like autos, consumer goods, and home appliances, and the next stage will create a revolution to traditional industries such as steel, machine tools, and manufacturing, etc..
?DIGITAL EXPANSION
It is possible for China to have about 50% ?of the global smart cities having some 500 and keep increasing with the resolve of the government. Originally smart city applications have focused on areas like security and traffic management, 5G networks and edge computing advances will usher in a new era for cities as integrated digital platforms. in education, healthcare, logistics, and omnichannel eCommerce being useful at a huge scale across China’s cities to improve public service provision.
For example, Tencent is building a smart city that puts people and the environment first, aiming to cut down on car usage by using AI to improve public access and mixing green space into a massive campus for employees. At the international AI City Challenge in March 2021, Chinese companies or research institutions took the top two places across five categories. Douyin (TikTok), for example, took second place in a challenge to identify road accidents and stalled vehicles from freeway video feeds. Alibaba’s City. Brain tool will continue to bring environmental analysis, visual search, and urban planning tools to municipal authorities nationwide. Government services will be benefited as digitization solves the problems of overcrowding and resource misallocation.
THE INCREDIBLE ?RETAIL AMALGAMATION
The merging of earlier distinct retail sectors will be kept taking part in omnichannel retail with the on-demand economy, the social economy, and the retail supply chain. The outcome will be a huge and seamlessly integrated retail and social landscape. Social commerce will continue to flourish and account for an ever-larger share of online GMV. This trend will be governed by improvements in consumer fulfillment; the desire for convenience and efficiency will rapidly narrow the gap between on-demand and traditional e-commerce.
?Content-based e-commerce is poised for burst across video-sharing stands like Douyin and Bilibili, as well as other content-heavy services like Toutiao. Live streaming and broadcasting is likely to become major e-commerce sales in view of expected transformation as China develops into the 5G and internet-of-things (IoT) era. The final piece of the great retail integration will be improved supply chain agility. Supply chains will have to become more agile and better guess consumer trends and sources of demand.
THE SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT OR VIRTUALIZATION
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Like widespread growth of ecommerce in China, , virtualization of services ??will take epicenter ?as discoveries in consumer adoption, partly led ?by COVID-19, are fast-tracking the digitization of service provision in many sectors, like in healthcare and education, but still full leveraging of digital innovation to remain driving efficiencies while solving wide imbalances in the distribution of resources. Education uneven public expenditures, digitization will e more equitable access to education resources which balances ??3.3 times higher in tier-one cities than in China’s smaller tier-three and four urban centers.
Platforms like Alibaba’s DingTalk app will simplify greater union of online and offline education delivery channels by the school as the students have become comfortable to integrated online to offline (O2O) models, the probability to l to develop this habit as the digital-native generation progresses along their learning journey is vast.. ?China will continue to experiment with AI to create personalized, interactive, and immersive learning experiences. As 5G becomes the norm, AI will enable adaptive learning, offering more personalized services based on individual patterns of learning and study preferences. Healthcare will also get enormous benefits from health to seek and health service providers.. Almost 80 percent of medical resources are concentrated in just 20 percent of hospitals in China, so grassroots clinics and hospitals in remote and lower-tier cities lack high-quality supplies. Currently, less than 5 percent of total consultations are online, indicating a growth opportunity that should reduce the tendency for patients to travel long distances to reach general hospitals in major cities, and resolve related overcrowding issues.
?Beike, an online residential real estate platform, hosted more than 10 million virtual property showings through its virtual reality (VR) technology during the peak of lockdown, 35 times the number conducted prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. The virtualization of government services and legal advice will be a ?wave of sectors that traditionally required face-to-face interactions to go digital. This should provide transparency of governance excellence through public rating systems, helping raise standards. Digitization will also make it possible for service providers to work anywhere, breaking down traditional regulatory and financial barriers to labor mobility, and revolutionizing the availability and quality of services. Automation will also play a larger role, with service robots debuting across the service-driven consumption market.
CONCLUSION
?CHINA HAS BECOME A LABORATORY FOR THE REGULATION OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY