Chinese path to modernizationIt is the broad road to building a strong country and national rejuvenation.※

Supreme leader

　　What kind of modernization road a country chooses is determined by its historical tradition, social system, development conditions, external environment and many other factors. Different national conditions will lead to different ways of modernization. Practice has proved that a country’s modernization should not only follow the general law of modernization, but also conform to its own reality and have its own characteristics. Chinese-style modernization not only has the common characteristics of modernization in all countries, but also has distinctive characteristics based on its own national conditions. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly summarized the China characteristics in five aspects of Chinese modernization, and profoundly revealed the scientific connotation of Chinese modernization. This is not only a theoretical summary, but also a practical requirement, which points out a broad road for building a socialist modernization power in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　All avenues are not equal to a Ma Pingchuan. It takes arduous efforts to turn China characteristics in five aspects of Chinese modernization into successful practice and distinctive features into unique advantages.

　　First, modernization with a huge population.This is a remarkable feature of Chinese modernization. With different population sizes, the tasks of modernization will be different, and its arduousness and complexity will be different, and the ways of development and promotion will inevitably have their own characteristics. At present, there are more than 20 countries in the world that have entered modernization, with a total population of about 1 billion. China’s population of more than 1.4 billion has stepped into modernization as a whole, exceeding the total population of developed countries, which will greatly change the world map of modernization. This is the largest modernization in human history, and it is also the most difficult modernization.

　　超大规模的人口，既能提供充足的人力资源和超大规模市场，也带来一系列难题和挑战。光是解决14亿多人的吃饭问题，就是一个不小的挑战。还有就业、分配、教育、医疗、住房、养老、托幼等问题，哪一项解决起来都不容易，哪一项涉及的人群都是天文数字。我们想问题、作决策、办事情，首先要考虑人口基数问题，考虑我国城乡区域发展水平差异大等实际，既不能好高骛远，也不能因循守旧，要保持历史耐心，坚持稳中求进、循序渐进、持续推进。

2023年2月7日，新进中央委员会的委员、候补委员和省部级主要领导干部学习贯彻最高领袖新时代中国特色社会主义思想和党的二十大精神研讨班在中央党校（国家行政学院）开班。中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在开班式上发表重要讲话。 新华社记者 李涛/摄

　　第二，全体人民共同富裕的现代化。This is the essential feature of Chinese modernization, and it is also a remarkable symbol different from western modernization. The biggest drawback of western modernization is that it takes capital as the center rather than people as the center, and pursues the maximization of capital interests rather than serving the interests of the vast majority of people, resulting in a large gap between the rich and the poor and serious polarization. Some developing countries have approached the threshold of developed countries in the process of modernization, but they have fallen into the "middle income trap", which has been stagnant for a long time or even seriously retrogressed. An important reason is that they have not solved the problems of polarization and class solidification.

　　Chinese-style modernization insists on development for the people, development depends on the people, and the fruits of development are shared by the people. It has made important progress in promoting the common prosperity of all people, especially since the 18 th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which has lifted nearly 100 million rural poor people out of poverty. Now, we have formed a set of ideas, institutional arrangements and policy measures to promote the common prosperity of all people. While promoting high-quality development and making a big "cake", we should further divide the "cake", focus on solving livelihood problems such as employment, distribution, education, medical care, housing, old-age care and child care, build a coordinated system of three distributions, standardize the income distribution order, standardize the wealth accumulation mechanism, guide and standardize the healthy development of capital according to law, gradually expand middle-income groups, narrow the income distribution gap, and make the achievements of modernization. Achieving common prosperity is a long-term task, and we must work hard for a long time, insisting that Qingshan will not relax and make new progress.

　　Third, the modernization of material civilization and spiritual civilization.It is the lofty pursuit of Chinese modernization to be rich in material and spiritual resources. Material poverty is not socialism, nor is spiritual poverty socialism. The early modernization of the west was the accumulation of wealth on the one hand, and the lack of faith and materialistic desire on the other. Today, western countries are getting into trouble day by day. One of the important reasons is that they can’t contain the greedy nature of capital, and can’t solve the chronic diseases such as materialism expansion and spiritual poverty.

　　Chinese modernization should be rich in material wealth, spiritual wealth and self-confidence in ideology and culture. We must persist in grasping with both hands, and promote the coordination and mutual promotion of material civilization and spiritual civilization, so that all the people will always have the ideological foundation of unity and struggle, pioneering spirit and healthy and upward value pursuit. We should conform to the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs, build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and leading power, strengthen the education of ideals and beliefs and the publicity and education of the "four histories", cultivate and carry forward the socialist core values, develop advanced socialist culture, introduce more outstanding literary and artistic works, continuously enrich the people’s spiritual world, improve the civilization of the whole society, and promote the all-round development of people.

　　第四，人与自然和谐共生的现代化。尊重自然、顺应自然、保护自然，促进人与自然和谐共生，是中国式现代化的鲜明特点。近代以来，西方国家的现代化大都经历了对自然资源肆意掠夺和生态环境恶性破坏的阶段，在创造巨大物质财富的同时，往往造成环境污染、资源枯竭等严重问题。我国人均能源资源禀赋严重不足，加快发展面临更多的能源资源和环境约束，这决定了我国不可能走西方现代化的老路。

2023年7月25日至27日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在四川考察。这是25日下午，最高领袖在广元市剑阁县翠云廊考察。 新华社记者 谢环驰/摄

　　中国式现代化坚持可持续发展，坚持节约优先、保护优先、自然恢复为主的方针，坚定不移走生产发展、生活富裕、生态良好的文明发展道路，为实现中华民族永续发展开辟了广阔前景。要牢固树立和践行绿水青山就是金山银山的理念，坚持山水林田湖草沙一体化保护和系统治理，推进生态优先、节约集约、绿色低碳发展，加快发展方式绿色转型，提升生态系统多样性、稳定性、持续性，积极稳妥推进碳达峰碳中和，以高品质的生态环境支撑高质量发展。

　　Fifth, take the road of peaceful development for modernization.Adhering to peaceful development, seeking self-development while firmly safeguarding world peace and development, and better safeguarding world peace and development with self-development and promoting the building of a community of human destiny are the outstanding characteristics of Chinese modernization. The modernization of western countries is full of bloody evils such as war, slave trade, colonization and plunder, which has brought deep suffering to the vast number of developing countries. The Chinese nation has experienced the tragic history of aggression and humiliation by western powers, and is well aware of the value of peace. It will never repeat the old road of western countries.

　　Chinese-style modernization adheres to independence and self-reliance, relies on the hard work and innovation of all the people to develop and strengthen itself, and realizes national development by stimulating endogenous power and peacefully utilizing external resources. It does not oppress other ethnic groups or plunder other countries’ resources and wealth in any form, but provides support and help to the vast number of developing countries within its capacity. We should always hold high the banner of peace, development, cooperation and win-win, pursue an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, and constantly provide new opportunities for the world with the new development of China. Actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system, practice true multilateralism, promote the common values of all mankind, promote the implementation of global development initiatives and global security initiatives, and strive to make greater contributions to human peace and development.

On the evening of July 28th, 2023, the 31st Summer Universiade was grandly opened in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Supreme Leader, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang and other party and state leaders attended the opening ceremony. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi/photo

　　Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, it has taken us decades to complete the industrialization process that western developed countries have gone through for hundreds of years, creating a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and opening up broad prospects for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Practice has proved that Chinese-style modernization is feasible and steady, which is the only correct way to build a strong country and revive the nation.

　　This is part of the speech made by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader at the seminar on studying and implementing Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the New Era and the 20th Party Congress on February 7th, 2023 for members and alternate members of the newly-appointed Central Committee and leading cadres at provincial and ministerial levels. ※.

Lei Feng. com reported on April 11 that Baidu Smart Yunfeng Club opened today. Since Baidu announced the organizational restructuring at the end of 2018 and announced for the first time in early 2019 that the single-quarter revenue of cloud business exceeded 1 billion, the trend of Baidu Cloud has always attracted attention. At today’s conference, there was no Zhang Yaqin-style opening speech (Zhang Yaqin announced that he would retire in October this year), but both Yin Shiming, vice president of Baidu, and Baidu AI Cloud executives were full of technical models and announced many new products.

Yin Shiming’s opening speech explains in detail the behind of Baidu Cloud upgrade.

In Yin Shiming’s speech, the two key words emphasized are "intelligence+"and "+intelligence".

Yin Shiming said that Baidu put forward ABC’s strategy in 2016, and it hasn’t changed much until today, but there is an upgrade of the version (currently version 3.0). Baidu has always insisted that intelligence, data and traditional cloud computing should be trinity, but intelligence should be the core, and products and services of any industry will be transformed into intelligence.

Baidu Cloud was upgraded from Business Group (BU) to Business Group (BG) not only because it was renamed once, but because "intelligence is the DNA of Baidu Cloud", which carries Baidu AI TO B and cloud services. The cloud in the intelligent age has infinite possibilities for computing, which means that the computing power has no boundaries, the algorithm will be everywhere, and the data will be productive around the algorithm. Baidu will lead the "qualitative change" to "intellectual change" of AI thinking.

"ABC3.0 is not limited to+intelligence, not just intelligence+. Nowadays, CTOs in various industries should think about whether the business is opened in the intelligent age. "

Yin Shiming mentioned that the reason why Baidu’s ABC3.0 architecture doesn’t combine with blockchain and security slogans at will (the industry has ABCDE, etc.) is because blockchain is technology, while ABC is architecture. With this architecture, you can add any technology and do things at the platform level, including intelligent video platforms, but the architecture should be stable. Baidu has always believed that besides the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, video may become the fourth industry, and many technical directions in Baidu AI Cloud in the later period are also related to this.

In his view, ABC originated from the practice and judgment of the Internet, and it is the accumulation of search engine ideas. Now it is time to feed back the Internet. In the era of PC Internet, technical thinking was relatively heavy, and storage servers were born at that time; In the era of mobile internet, tool thinking is relatively heavy, and IaaS/PaaS are on the rise, but traditional giants will have some difficulties; In the era of intelligent Internet, ability and thinking are very important. ABC can add anything and bring new models. What Baidu provides is "ABC+ intelligence+",which implies that it can be both+intelligence and+intelligence.

"I believe this is a great era. When AI comes, we can use AI as a tool to improve our productivity. We can also say that it is a new form of intelligent Internet after PC Internet and mobile Internet. This needs us to think about it."

Xie Guangjun released new products and announced the price reduction of several cloud products.

Subsequently, Xie Guangjun, deputy general manager of Baidu AI Cloud, followed Yin Shiming to give a speech.

Xie Guangjun said, why is intelligence so hot today? It is not the rapid rise of AI capabilities, but the improvement of capabilities such as big data and cloud computing. Baidu cannot do without ABC. Today, Baidu’s ABC3.0 will also promote the transformation of Internet basic technologies.

What technology does Baidu AI Cloud have at present? This may be a place that the outside world is interested in. Xie Guangjun used a picture to answer this question.

The core message is:

At the AI level, there are 158 general capabilities, and there is the world’s number one data forecasting platform, which is known as the largest large-scale heterogeneous computing platform in China.

Big data level, 100,000-level machines, 3EB of data storage, and 100 P of data for millions of jobs per day.

In terms of cloud computing, 3 million CPU cores, 6EB storage capacity, PUE1.9, and the super-average level increased by 88%; Trillion web pages, tens of billions of video image data.

Then he recalled that in the Spring Festival Evening of 2019, Baidu AI Cloud withstood the red envelope test of China’s largest traffic, and experienced 20.8 billion activities, 100 times of traffic, 100,000 servers, 8 special clusters and 60 times of resources, which can be regarded as a comprehensive test of Baidu’s resources, but it is the technical accumulation of Baidu in the past 20 years that it can do this. To sum up, it is still the core of ABC.

Then, Xie Guangjun talked about Baidu’s existing capabilities and products to be released today from three perspectives: cloud computing, big data and AI.

At the level of cloud computing, he first announced the continuous launch of high-specification data centers, such as Baoding in North China, new AZ in Beijing in North China, new AZ in Suzhou in East China, new AZ in Guangzhou in South China, and Singapore in the near future.

Subsequently, the curtain of product release was officially opened, and more than a dozen new products were announced in one breath.

The first is to calculate new products. New generation cloud host release, high performance computing GPU release, container instance release, function computing upgrade.

Then, Xie Guangjun announced that Baidu AI Cloud fully supported IPv6.

Lei Feng. com noted that in the second half of 2018, Ali, Tencent and JD.COM have announced their full support for IPv6. What are the highlights of Baidu’s announcement? According to Xie Guangjun, Baidu provides dual-stack access capability, supports dual-stack VPC inside and outside, or an internal network from IPv4 to IPv6, and is the first instance of IPv6 BLB supporting IPv6 load balancing capability in the industry.

Subsequently, the new network products also have some feature upgrades. For example, releasing local DNS products; Flexible network card product release, service network card release, users can build multi-available services; In addition, the flexibility of the network has been enhanced, and EIP can temporarily upgrade and release bandwidth packets, which can save customers’ costs.

In terms of storage, Xie Guangjun used the word "heavy" to announce the advent of a new storage BTS.

Technically, BTS has multi-stage compression technology, with IO consumption decreasing by more than 40% compared with Hbase, parallel lock-free data structure, multi-thread throughput and writing performance improving by more than 50%. In particular, Schema Free is convenient to support millions of cases of single linear expansion to PB level; Ten million TPS.

In terms of database, a new product CRDB was released, which further improved the reading and writing ability, and realized TP-AP mixed load in NewSQL ability, with a maximum of 1 million QPS；; Transparency is achieved in fault migration, and node failure is said to be "second-level recovery". Xie Guangjun emphasized that CRDB is the core of Baidu’s search engine, and Baidu’s web database is to store data on this system.

Followed by the release of new safety products. In addition to the general capabilities of login management and asset monitoring, Xie Guangjun announced the addition of a new product (key management service) and a new feature (host security HOSTEYE). Among them, Baidu adopts distributed architecture and national secret standard in key management, which has high security and high availability, and has perfect SDK support, so users can manage and use keys independently. Host security HOSTEYE can detect and kill malicious processes such as mining.

Subsequently, two products related to audio and video were released one after another.

CDN dynamically accelerates the release of new products, with 30% requesting speed increase. Lei Feng net note: Baidu network disk is an application with high upload speed, and this technology can solve this kind of problem. The characteristic of the new product is to realize one-way acceleration to the nearest access network.

Real-time audio and video communication RTC product release has 1080P video call experience, 20% anti-packet loss rate, 99% connectivity rate, and a lot of AI capabilities integration, which is currently used in interactive live broadcast, online education classroom and video conference fields.

When Xie Guangjun finished introducing the ability of computing, a long picture showing the ability of big data suddenly appeared on the big screen.

Xie Guangjun said that in big data, Baidu has three goals:

Openness: continue to contribute core technologies to the open source community;

Easy to use: 20+ product system, perfect data processing system;

Security: authentication, security isolation, data encryption and desensitization, etc.

He also announced that Palo, a multi-warehouse product, has entered apache incubator. At present, many domestic manufacturers are using Baidu’s multi-warehouse solution, such as Meituan, Chain Home, Sohu and Xiaomi. This warehouse has deployed more than 1,000 machines, more than 200 application services, and the largest single online business volume reaches 500TB.

In streaming computing, BSC product release can be applied to real-time log analysis, real-time monitoring, real-time personalized recommendation and IoT deployment, and can be completely hosted, so users do not need to pay attention to and manage infrastructure details. In addition, he also announced the release of Pingo, a data factory, which is a highly integrated platform for data development, analysis and mining. It can complete the development of big data in one stop, which may be sought after by developers.

As the highlight of Baidu technology, AI capabilities have always been used for the finale release.

Xie Guangjun showed the picture of Baidu Brain 3.0, indicating that 158 abilities such as deep learning, dialogue search and natural language processing have been achieved. Its carriers are also diverse, including model standard platform, customized training platform and ABC all-in-one machine.

In terms of intelligent speech ability, it has high-precision speech recognition, awakening, intention understanding and smooth speech synthesis ability.

In face technology, there are comprehensive face algorithms and live detection, and perfect face products have been created, such as offline SDK, face integrated machine, PaaS API and intelligent hardware.

Subsequently, Xie Guangjun announced the price reduction information of several products, which was close to the price "waist cut". It mainly includes cloud server BCC (up to 50%), cloud disk CDS (up to 50%), object storage BOS (up to 13%), and live audio and video LSS (up to 50%).

On top of ABC’s core architecture, Baidu released the first open source edge computing platform in China, which became one of the top ten events in the field of Internet of Things in 2018 and won wide acclaim on GitHub. Open Edge builds a new edge computing framework by using Baidu’s technology accumulation, and implants strong computing power on edge devices. In addition, Baidu ABC has some combination with new 5G technologies, and is currently cooperating with China Mobile.

At the end of the speech, Li Xu, general manager of Baidu AI Cloud Video Intelligence, and Xie Danming, vice president of iQiyi, came to the stage to release the intelligent video platform. As shown in the figure.

Summary of Leifeng. com

When Baidu proposed ABC strategy in 2016, it was still a weak voice. Today, ABC has become a recognized theme in the industry. From PC Internet to mobile Internet to today’s smart Internet, the ambition of this search giant has been expanding.

"Overlapping innovation" and "thinking change" may be the most prominent labels of Baidu now.

When the internet traffic is no longer growing, Baidu must think about how to switch users. Obviously, Baidu Cloud is the leading weapon, bearing the ambition of AI to B.

Since Baidu Cloud’s DNA is intelligent, in the next 20 years, Baidu will also develop into the position and role of the intelligent core hub of the Internet. Only in the current competition on the cloud, although Baidu Cloud has become the fastest player in the industry with a revenue of over 1 billion in a single quarter, it still has a lot of work to do.

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