On June 10th, the 22nd anniversary of iFlytek, Chairman Liu Qingfeng issued a letter to employees. He mentioned in the letter that iFLYTEK at the beginning of the year put forward the 14th Five-Year Plan of “one billion users, 100 billion revenue, and trillion ecology”, among which systemic innovation and strategic bases are the most important growth path for the next five years. , Are also the two core engines that support the rapid growth of performance.
He believes that at the current time, achieving goals requires adherence to the scientific spirit, which is to see the essence through the phenomenon, seek truth and be pragmatic, analyze and demonstrate, and be innovative and rational. First of all, we must use the spirit of science to return to the essence of value creation. “In education, whether our system can satisfy the essence of value creation depends on whether we can truly teach students in accordance with their aptitude and reduce the burden on teachers and students in the main campus. In terms of medical care, whether our system can satisfy value creation depends on whether our system can satisfy the value creation. Can it succeed in major emergencies?” Liu Qingfeng said.
Secondly, if you look at the problem dialectically with the spirit of science, there will be no short-term anxiety. Liu Qingfeng believes that continuous breakthroughs in single-point technology have become a habit of Xunfei, but the threshold of single-point technology will always be gradually overtaken by latecomers. Sticking to a single technology will inevitably flow into mediocrity and enter the red sea of technology and application. “We must not only open up a position in one new technological field, continue to explore in the unmanned area of technology, but also form a unique core competitiveness through systematic innovation, so as to achieve overall innovation on the strategic base and form our own Industry brand.”
Finally, he mentioned that to use the spirit of science to get out of the comfort zone, the stage is as big as the mind. “Getting out of the comfort zone is risk prevention, and it is also a development need and the desire to build the world with artificial intelligence.” Liu Qingfeng said that the status of the iFLYTEK artificial intelligence national team is constantly being strengthened, giving iFLYTEK the ability to systematically innovate and create the future. conditions of.
He also talked about the topic of “lying flat” that has caused heated discussion recently. He said that within iFLYTEK, it is necessary to use this as a vigilance to prevent young people with the ability and dreams from being flattened here, losing their internal development motivation and vigorous vitality. We must create an organizational environment that allows young people to continuously release their inner abilities, ensure that “heroes are useful”, and propose that the company resolutely opposes involution.
The following is the full text of Liu Qingfeng’s employee letter:
Today is the 22nd birthday of IFLYTEK. Thank you for your company!
The national college entrance examination has come to an end. The Guangdong college entrance examination, which has been affected by the epidemic, has been tested and no one is missing. This is the result of the joint efforts of all parties in the society, including our examination business center in Guangzhou, South China. They provided more than 50 million services for various examinations across the country last year alone; our intelligent medical assistant phone robots also rushed to help urgently in this epidemic, and quickly completed the screening for more than one million people in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Qingyuan, etc. Check and win important fighters in the race against the virus.
The epidemic is a touchstone of human nature, a manifestation of system advantages and management capabilities, and a martial arts field for testing whether artificial intelligence is truly practical.
At the beginning of this year, we put forward the fourteenth five-year goal of “one billion users, one hundred billion revenue, and one trillion ecology”. Among them, systematic innovation and strategic bases are the most important growth paths for us in the next five years, and are also the most important support for our high-speed growth. The two core engines. Looking back at the past six months:
Good news of the education business “Teaching Students in Accordance with One’s Aptitude” project has been reported frequently. It has landed in Zhengzhou and Wuhan, and the business has grown by more than 70%. The learning machine has been well received by parents and students, and the business has grown by about 200%. In July, we will release new products; Steady growth, the completion rate of B-end software exceeded 90% year-on-year, C-end software exceeded 52% year-on-year, and C-end hardware 618 start-up sales increased by 108% year-on-year; the “Smart Medical Assistant” project of medical business moved from Anhui to the whole country, with service coverage There are more than 38,000 grassroots doctors with more than 100 million residents; the construction of “Digital JAC” in smart cities will open up our provincial base model; the digital transformation of enterprises will also open a new situation, and our “Xunfei Tuling Platform” has been given priority by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Anhui Province Support and take the lead in building a digital transformation platform for SMEs.
At such a time node, how do we continue to use “systematic innovation” and “base business” to achieve our 14th Five-Year Plan?
That is to use the spirit of science to drive towards our sea of stars.
What is the “scientific spirit”?
It is the rational spirit of looking at the essence through the phenomenon, seeking truth and being pragmatic, analyzing and demonstrating, and pioneering and innovative.
In today’s rapidly changing era, we particularly emphasize the need to use the spirit of science to penetrate the surface and see the essence, reduce unnecessary anxiety, and maintain long-term strategic determination.
Specifically, it includes:
Use scientific spirit to return to the essence of value creation;
With the spirit of science, you will not be short-term anxious if you look at the problem dialectically;
With the spirit of science, step out of the comfort zone, the stage will be as big as you have in mind.
1. Return to the essence of value creation with scientific spirit
At the beginning of our business 22 years ago, we put forward the core concept of “achieve employees’ ideals and create social value”. The social value we create is the core value of high added value that is sunny and healthy, representing the country’s future participation in global competition.
In education, whether our system can satisfy the essence of value creation depends on whether we can truly teach students in accordance with their aptitude in the main campus to reduce the burden on teachers and students.
On May 21, 2021, the 19th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform pointed out that “one of the most prominent problems of compulsory education is that primary and secondary school students’ burden is too heavy, and the short-sighted and utilitarian problems have not been fundamentally resolved. Especially for off-campus training institutions. Disorderly development.” After that, those education and training institutions that relied on capital power to expand disorderly, over-marketed the anxiety of parents, and relied on duck-filling training to invade their children’s childhood, were repeatedly punished and laid off frequently; and iFLYTEK was in the process. On the contrary, China’s share price hit a new high.
Because our “Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude” is to strengthen the value of the main position of school education, assist teachers and students to return to school, do a good job in teaching within a limited time, free up children’s time, and let children change from duck-filling training to autonomous learning with the help of intelligent learning machines . It can be found that more and more children have improved their academic performance and reduced their learning time through our “teaching in accordance with their aptitude”: Taking a single knowledge point as an example, the amount of exercises for children has been reduced by 32%, and the learning time has been reduced by 48%. Let children have time to play, explore and cultivate their curiosity and thirst for knowledge.
Education is the foundation of a country. If education is not good, children are not good, and the future of the country cannot be good. The country’s long-term investment strategy of fiscal education expenditures accounting for 4% of GDP remains unchanged. As long as we meet the essence of value creation, the stars and seas of artificial intelligence empowering education will come naturally. .
In medical care, whether our system can satisfy value creation depends on whether it can survive major emergencies.
During the rebound of the epidemic in Hefei, the Hefei Municipal Party Committee and Government held a special meeting to clarify the need to speed up the deployment of our epidemic prevention and control system; in this Guangzhou epidemic rebound, our intelligent epidemic prevention and control multi-point trigger system was activated as soon as possible. Nansha District As soon as we announced the strengthening of management and control, we immediately surveyed the 5464 “key populations for investigation” in Nansha. It took only one hour to call, and immediately screened 853 people who had been to the medium- and high-risk areas of the epidemic in the past 15 days, and 110 people did not. He has done nucleic acid and generated statistical reports through these dimensions to help the government make accurate decisions.
2. Using the scientific spirit to dialectically look at the problem will not be short-term anxiety
Some external voices say that the threshold of voice technology is constantly lowering, and some of our friends are a little anxious. In fact, from speech synthesis to speech recognition, from machine translation to natural language understanding, single-point technology continues to break through. This has become our habit at iFLYTEK; however, the single-point technology threshold will always be gradually overtaken by latecomers. Sticking to a single technology will inevitably flow into mediocrity and enter the red sea of technology and application .
We will not only open up positions in one new technological field after another, and continue to explore in the technological no man’s land, It is also necessary to form a unique core competitiveness through systematic innovation , In order to achieve overall innovation on the strategic base, and form our own industry brand.
Many parents are now anxious about their children’s performance even in elementary school or even pre-school education. In addition to grades, education must be able to cultivate children’s learning interest and curiosity, develop good learning habits and physical fitness. Through our “teach students in accordance with their aptitude”, we can make children have a firmer grasp of knowledge points, and free up time to exercise creative thinking to achieve the five education simultaneously; we can also help parents understand which subjects are most in line with their children’s talents. These are all It is a core contribution beyond the acceptance rate, helping the country’s selection system and achievement orientation to diversify. As long as we persist in using rational thinking to help parents reduce their burdens, we can become a stream of value creation in the era of general anxiety education.
3. Get out of the comfort zone with the spirit of science, and the stage will be as big as you have in mind
Most people are used to staying in the comfort zone. However, the development of Xunfei is the process of stepping out of the “comfort zone” and exploring unknown boundaries:
Technically, it is from synthesis to recognition, to semantic understanding; from Chinese to English, to multilingual; from speech to image; from perception to cognition; from being able to listen and speak to being able to understand and think. With the breakthrough, we can undertake the construction of the only State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, become one of the first four open artificial intelligence platforms in the country, and become the “national team” in the field of artificial intelligence.
In business, if you are satisfied from language learning to intelligent evaluation, there will be no current “teach students in accordance with their aptitude” so that every child can enjoy a high-quality and balanced education; if they are satisfied from electronic medical records to intelligent medical assistants, there will be no current intelligent epidemic The prevention and control system provides artificial intelligence power for orderly epidemic prevention and control; if you are only satisfied with occupying more than 60% of the market share in the car voice kit market, you will not have the courage to force yourself to reach in-depth cooperation with many car companies. And self-breakthrough to enter the field of autonomous driving.
We want to move on to a bigger stage, just to do things that can only be gained by jumping up and forcing ourselves to continue to make breakthroughs. Getting out of the comfort zone is not only risk prevention, but also development needs and the desire to build the world with artificial intelligence.
The status of our artificial intelligence national team is constantly being strengthened, giving us the ability to systematically innovate and create conditions for the future.
In 2017, the “New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” mentioned that speech recognition is the world leader, and the country’s first batch of intelligent speech artificial intelligence open innovation platforms settled in Xunfei. Four years later, on May 28th, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again proposed at the academician conference of the two academies, “China’s speech recognition is at the forefront of the world.” This makes us very proud. We have done it in the country’s mission; The secretary pointed out that we have entered the era of intelligent interconnection of all things with the ternary integration of “human, machine and things”. In 2019, we proposed that “intelligent voice interaction will become the most important entrance for human-computer interaction in the era of interconnection of all things”. HKUST Xunfei took the lead in establishing a new standard system in the field of intelligent voice and accelerated the construction of the national technology standard innovation base; on May 27, under the witness of eight leaders from Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Anhui Province, HKUST Xunfei took the lead The chairman of the Yangtze River Delta Artificial Intelligence Industry Chain Alliance was formally established; at a special meeting organized by the Anhui Provincial Government on June 3, Governor Wang Qingxian made it clear: We must give full play to the leading advantages of intelligent voice technology represented by iFLYTEK, and accelerate the development A complete artificial intelligence industry system featuring intelligent voice.
The best way to foresee the future is to create the future.
If we want to achieve the development goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan and our cause is to benefit more mankind, we must let talents from all over the world join our ranks and give them a bigger stage. Recently, the topic of “lying flat” has aroused heated discussion. Many people laugh at themselves and say that I don’t want to work hard, but on the other hand, the number and popularity of online knowledge videos continue to increase, indicating that young people now have a strong self-drive and spirit of striving and enterprising, and they are a generation with dreams and personality.
In fact, many young people are very good, but some may not have a platform for growth and display, so that the ceiling of the workplace will soon come. Inside iFLYTEK, we must also take this as a vigilance to prevent young people with the ability and dreams from being flattened, losing their internal development momentum and vigorous vitality here. We need to create an organizational environment that allows young people to continuously release their inner abilities and ensure that “heroes are useful.”
Within the enterprise, we firmly oppose involution, Anything that can’t really create value for customers is an involution that is not worth the effort: Those that require a uniform format on insignificant matters are internal scrolling; those that spend time and energy on handling internal interpersonal relationships are internal scrolling; those that consume the lives of employees for multiple rounds of reporting. Our eyes should look outward, and the external tension that forms the organization is the fundamental way to solve the involution.
We hope that cadres at all levels of iFLYTEK can truly understand young people and look at problems from the perspective of young people. We need to first solve the young people’s survival pressure and growth pressure. From the perspective of “why not eat meat”, it is unobjective and unfair to put higher demands on young people who first need to solve the problem of food and clothing.
Struggle is the background color of youth, but it requires “civilian and martial arts, one relaxation.” We will continue to release the vitality of the organization, so that young people have greater motivation for growth, and every step of the happy struggle will have tangible rewards.
Today, population aging and declining birth rate are the general trend. Building a happy China must rely on artificial intelligence; the demographic dividend is gradually disappearing, more and more jobs will not be undertaken by young people, and building an industrial power must rely on artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is taking on the important task of reshaping the competitive landscape of the global industrial chain. Standing at the new starting point of the 14th Five-Year Plan, facing the big future of artificial intelligence, we are in a golden window period and stand on an unprecedented stage.
No one can stay old, but the struggler is always young.
May we have hills in our breasts and mountains in our eyes.
Together, create the future!
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