A New Era of the Digital World
1、We are the witnesses of the past.
I still remembered when I first visited the United States in the early 1990s, I was so surprised by everything: skyscrapers, highways, supermarkets, beautiful landscapes, and neat communities and streets, especially email, that will end up the history of written letters one day. I hadn't seen them before. And I met many volunteers and kind people here. I came to understand why the "American Dream" can inspire and attract so many young people to leave their families and realize their dreams in this land.
At that time, China was still at the early stage of reform and opening up. Many things were waiting to be done. Compared with the U.S., China lagged far behind in different fields.
How I wish that my motherland could also be so rich and strong and that the Chinese people could live a stable and peaceful life.
Two years later, my partner and I started our own business, and we named our company "Newland". 500 years ago, Columbus discovered the New landmass with an enterprising spirit; we gave our company such a name because we wanted to create a better future by innovating and struggling with a pioneering spirit on a virgin land.
In the early 1990s, credit cards were widely used in the United States, while China was still paying in cash. We started our business with the R&D of POS terminals. Now, Newland is among the world top POS suppliers. According to the Nilson Report, Newland ranked TOP 2 worldwide and TOP 1 in the Asia-Pacific Regions. Our products and services are delivered to 100-odd countries and regions.
China has undergone fundamental changes in the past 25 years. The national economy increased by around 20 times. China has scored great achievements in construction of infrastructures and development of information technology. We see convenient transportation network of highways, high-speed rails, and airlines. We see telecommunication everywhere. And we see the ongoing shift from cash to credit card, and from mobile to barcode payment. People’s life has seen great improvement. Now, China is stepping up its efforts to eliminate poverty by 2020, so that 1.4 billion Chinese people can live better lives. China’s fast development is also an opportunity for its enterprises to share the benefit. Newland is just one of the numerous enterprises that had started from scratch and developed into strong and powerful ones. We are the witnesses of China’s development and we are also its contributors.
2、We are the builders of the present.
The third information technological revolution from the 1940s has realized the transformation to automation on the basis of steam engine and electric power, while digitization will bring about the fourth industrial revolution and realized intelligence.
It is not only the progress of technology, but also the result of the awakening of human consciousness and all-round development.
Human beings are following the process of digitalization, networking, visualization and intelligence. The Internet and the mobile Internet have solved the problem of digitalization of "affairs", the Internet of Things is solving the problem of digitalization of "things", and "digital citizen “will solve the problem of digitalization of "people", which connect people with all things. The integration of affairs, things and people gives rise to the digital world.
In the digital era, law-compliant logical governance system and operation mode are designed on the basis of big data and AI, so as to meet the need of social governance, corporate governance, state governance, and even global governance.
Through AI, a scientific and reasonable digital model is established to achieve, correct, change, or even disrupt our cognition and practice in the traditional physical world and also our way of doing things and bring innovation in traditional governance mode. In this way, we will be able to carry out real and effective governance to meet the needs, address the pains, empower the people, and finally realize the smart society and the smart earth. The birth of the digital world will help us to optimize and reconstruct the physical world and make the world what it should be.
In the digital world, a digital ecology with trust, justice and fairness will be built with big data as the production factor, AI as the production tool and blockchain as the production relation. And the capability of governing the digital world will become the primary productive force.
Today we are here to discuss the development of AI. This event is meaningful. We are shouldering the task of the times and we are expected to make efforts and lay a solid foundation for a smart earth in the near future.
3、We are the pioneers of the future.
Digital revolution made global digital governance possible. IT changes how we live; the Internet changes how we communicate. Then AI changes how we feel and how we think. The truth and nature of human governance will be discovered.
The digital age will bring together cultures and civilizations of different times, different people and different countries, and translate them into big data. It will form a learning system across time and space. It will form a new culture and civilization.
In the farming stage, people fight for lands. In the industrial stage, people fight for profits. But in the digital world, we go beyond time and space, and there will be no territory of the world. All are connected to cross all the boundaries of human society based on mutual needs, mutual empowerment and mutual assistance. The mindset of zero-sum game in physical world should give way to a new approach of win-win cooperation.
In the future, we will see the individual differences narrowed by the effects of birthplaces. The digital world and physical world will be highly integrated, so that geography, education, race and national boundaries will be not so clear. Many gaps in the real world will no longer exist. People can share data and connect digitally, equally enjoy global services, feel the freedom of life in a wider space, and create personal value over a longer period.
This is the objective result of technology development as well as a great change for human social governance.
In the past, people resorted to weapons and force in their conquest of the world, and the most destructive weapon today is "nuclear weapon". But when it comes to the time of integration, "the positive and harmless weapon of harmony" is created with peace, harmony, friendliness and kindness. In Chinese, “和”（harmony）and “核”（nuclear）are pronounced the same.
The digital world will build a new type of global village and global citizen – global connection, boundless territory, coexistent ecosystem, multi-creative values, all-win achievements and caring for free development of human beings.
The civilization of the digital world features connection, confluence, coexistence, share and mutual benefits. This matches the core value of Chinese traditional culture: Benevolence, integrity, justice, harmony and great unity. Benevolence means that we love both friends and strangers. We should be honest with ourselves so that we will win trust from others. Justice means that we should uphold righteousness and stick to the truth. Harmony lies between people and people, people and nature, people and the whole world. 2500 years ago, Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu elaborated on the notion of "human and nature as a whole". It is the wisdom of the universe. It is the ecosystem and value of the digital world.
If the Axial Age more than 2,500 years ago saw the awakening of individual consciousness, then the economic globalization in the Second Axial Age saw the awakening of group consciousness, The Third Axial Age of global integration featuring “all under the heaven are one” and “a community of shared future” will be an awakening of the consciousness of humanity as a whole.
We are all human beings. From one to all to all in one, our future lies in the process of human development and human progress. Our destination is a community of shared future.
The future is coming! At this high moment, we are at the gate of digital world. And we will open a new chapter in human history.
One world, one dream, one humanity, one family.
译文：
开启数字世界新纪元
一、过去，我们是见证者。
上世纪90年代初，我首次踏上美国这块土地时，眼前的一切都使我惊叹，高耸入云的摩天大楼，四通八达的高速公路、玲琅满目的超市、优美的自然环境和秩序井然的街道社区。尤其是实时通信的电子邮件结束了我们鸿雁传书的历史，凡此种种，都是我们前所未见的。更令我印象深刻的是许许多多的志愿者和热情友爱的人们。让我深深体会到，为什么“美国梦”可以激励世界各地无数怀揣梦想的年轻人，让他们背井离乡来到这片土地，学习并提升自己的价值和创造未来。
而当时的中国，还处在改革开放的初期，向世界打开大门的时间并不长，百业待举，百废待兴，与美国相比还很贫穷落后，相距甚远。那时的我多么渴望自己的祖国也能像美国一样国富民强、国泰民安。
两年后，我和我的伙伴一起白手起家，开始创业，我们把公司取名为新大陆（newland）。500年前哥伦布发现美洲新大陆，新大陆寓意为是要在一片未开垦的的土地上开拓，进取、创新，拼搏，创造未来。
90年代初，美国已经普遍使用信用卡支付，而中国还是现金支付。因此，我们从创新POS机的研发入手。25年后的今天，在英国威尔森发布的权威数据中，新大陆已经是连续第三年位列全球第二、亚太第一的POS机具供应商，新大陆品牌的产品和服务远销全球100多个国家和地区。
过去25年，中国发生了翻天覆地的变化，国民经济增长了近20倍，高铁、民航、高速公路网络四通八达，移动通信无处不在，从现金支付到卡支付、移动支付、条码支付，实实在在改变着中国人的衣食住行，人民的生活水平大大提高。目前，中国正准备2020年彻底解决贫困人口问题，让14亿中国人都能过上好日子。国家快速发展的过程，企业也获得了发展机会，像新大陆这样从无到有、从小到大、从弱到强的例子不胜枚举。中国奇迹般的发展壮大的过程，我们即是见证者，也是建设者。
二、今天，我们是建设者。
20世纪40年代，第三次的信息技术革命在蒸汽机、电气化的基础上实现了向自动化的转变，而数字化将会带来第四次技术革命，实现智能化和智慧化，这不仅是技术的进步，更是人类进行自我意识觉醒和全面自由发展的实践。
人类正遵循着数字化、网络化、可视化、智慧化的进程递进发展。互联网、移动互联网解决了“事”的数字化，物联网正在解决“物”的数字化，“数字公民”解决了“人”的数字化，使得人与万事万物实现连接,人事物的数字化汇聚成全新空间，孕育出一个前所未有的数字世界。
数字时代基于大数据和人工智能等算法，根据社会治理，企业治理或者国家治理，甚至全球治理的需要，设计出合乎逻辑和发展规律的治理体系和运作模式，通过人工智能，建立科学、合理的数字模型来实现，纠偏、改变、甚至颠覆我们在传统物理世界的认知和做事方法，形成对传统治理模式的创新，面向当下和面向需求及痛点真实有效的治理，为人们赋能，最终实现智慧社会和智慧地球。数字世界的诞生必将帮助我们优化乃至重构物理世界，还世界之本真。
在数字世界中，以数据为生产要素、以人工智能为生产工具、以区块链为生产关系建立起信用、公平、公正的数字生态，而数字世界治理能力将成为第一生产力！
今天我们相聚在此，共商人工智能技术发展，具有时代性的伟大意义，当我们遥望不远将来的智慧地球，今天的努力将打下坚实基础，在座的每一位都肩负着的时代赋予的使命。
三、未来，我们是开启者。
数字化革命让全球数字治理成为可能。如果说IT改变人的生活方式，互联网改变人的交往方式，那么人工智能将改变人的心性和思维方式，让人类社会的运行和治理回归真实的本质。
数字化时代将汇聚人类的不同时代、不同民族和不同国家的文化和文明，并以大数据形式呈现，通过人工智能等算法构成在时间轴和空间轴上均实现360度“无死角”的认知系统，形成新的文化和文明。
农耕时代为一亩三分地而战，传统工业时代为获取更大的利益零和博弈，而到了数字世界是跨越时间和空间、有域无疆的世界，将打破传统世界的碎片化、区域化、片段化的孤岛格局，它的连接以相互需求、相互赋能、相互帮助为前提。物理世界的零和效应将被数字世界的正和效应无情迭代，可以跨越人类社会的一切边界。
未来，我们将看到因为出生环境而造成的个体命运差异被逐渐缩小，数字世界和物理世界的高度融合，让地域、教育、种族、国家边界不再分明，很多在现实世界无法跨越的鸿沟将不复存在。每个个体都能够因为个人数据的拥有，以及在个人意愿主导下的数据分享与连接，平等地享受到全球性的服务资源，在更广袤的空间里感受生命的自由，在更漫长的时间里去创造个人的价值。
这既是人类技术进步的客观结果，也将会带来人类社会治理理念的巨大转变。
过去的的物理世界，人们靠兵器、靠武力征服世界，人类至今破坏力最强的武器是“核武器”。但当人类来到全球化和数字化交汇、物理世界和数字世界融合到来的时候，“和平、和谐、和睦、和合、和善”将会形成最巨大能量的“和武器”。（在中文里，“核武器”和 “和武器”发音相同）。而这样的“和武器”将真正的构建出新型地球村——在关系上实现全球链接，在空间上实现有域无疆，在生态上实现共生共存，在价值上实现多元创造，在成果上实现人类共荣共享，最终实现人类的终极关怀和人的全面而自由发展。
数字世界必然伴随着数字文明的诞生，数字文明是连接、和合、共生、共享、共赢，蕴涵着天人合一的宇宙观、协和万邦的国际观、和而不同的社会观，人心和善的道德观。这与中国传统文化核心观点：“仁爱、诚信、正义、和谐、大同” 的价值吻合。仁爱提倡不但爱和自己相关的人，还要爱别人。诚信是诚意的结果，先诚于自己，才能被人信任。正义是指追求正确和正当的义，坚持真理。和谐在于人与人，人与自然、人与世间万物的和谐。早在2500多年前的轴心时代，中国的圣人老子所阐述的“天人合一”大同的崇高境界，正是探索宇宙本源的智慧，早已描绘出数字世界的生态和价值。
如果说2500多年前的轴心时代是人类个体意识的觉醒，关键是知道了“我”，那么第二轴心时代的信息化和经济全球化就是人类群体意识的觉醒，关键是明白了“和”；第三轴心时代是以数字化和全球一体化为代表的“天地万物为一体”和“人类命运共同体”将是人类整体意识的觉醒，关键是走到了“共”。
我们都是人类中的一员。我们的命运从“我”到“我们”，到“我们大家共同”，这是人类发展的过程，也是人类进步的过程。人类命运共同体是大家的最终归宿。
未来正在到来！我们再次抵达了数字世界新纪元之门，我们是开启者！
同一个世界，同一个梦想，同一个人类，同一个家族。
