Will the Global Science and Technology Innovation Center be transferred to China when Trump is elected?

The world-famous American election finally came to an end, and Trump, the "black swan", was unexpectedly elected president.

This makes many entrepreneurs and technology leaders in Silicon Valley feel that a nightmare is coming, because many of the policies they advocated during the election campaign will bring huge losses to scientific and technological innovation in the United States. On the other hand, the Internet in China is overtaking in corners, with strong innovation ability. So at the same time, Baidu founder Li Yanhong also said in the post, "Will the innovation center of the world be transferred from Silicon Valley to China?" This is really worth analyzing.

First, why is Trump a disaster in Silicon Valley?

Just in July this year, more than1000 Silicon Valley technology tycoons publicly jointly opposed Trump, including Twitter co-founder ivan Wilhemlms, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Facebook co-founder dustin moskovitz and other celebrities.

The relevant policies advocated by Trump are not conducive to innovation in Silicon Valley, and once implemented, it will undoubtedly be disastrous for the entrepreneurial environment of the whole United States, and its main destructiveness is as follows.

1) Immigration policy, Trump believes that the immigration policy is too open, which also leads to a direct reduction in the salary of American personnel after foreign technicians enter the United States, which will greatly raise the visa threshold to protect domestic employment, which makes Silicon Valley technology companies sad everywhere.

2) Trump, who opposes free competition and is protectionist, is also resistant to China. For example, he made it clear that he resisted Apple's adoption of Foxconn OEM because he did not create employment opportunities for domestic enterprises, and called on his supporters to boycott Apple during the campaign, which was unprecedented.

In addition, for Huawei, ZTE and other companies, in order to better protect domestic companies, it is necessary to adopt a high tax policy, which will also make many competitive companies in China, South Korea and Japan suffer serious setbacks. On the day of its victory, a series of China stocks suffered heavy losses.

3) Do everything possible to control Internet companies. In addition, Trump is full of views on Internet companies. In addition to Apple, major Internet companies are also the targets of his attacks. For example, Amazon has been the target of his long-term attack, saying that it has been monopolizing the market, and its acquisition of Washington post has influenced American politics, thus helping Amazon get better tax treatment.

In short, after Trump is elected, Silicon Valley will most likely suffer catastrophic treatment.

Second, China is indeed catching up with Silicon Valley.

When we look back at China, we will find that the growth of Internet companies in China in recent years has also begun to attract the attention of American counterparts.

In the early PC era, Internet companies in China were more learners than creators, and all products and technologies were learned from abroad. However, in the era of mobile Internet, this situation began to change. The United States has a sound infrastructure, so the mobile Internet is at best a supplement rather than a subversion. But for China, a country with extremely backward infrastructure, the mobile Internet has brought earth-shaking opportunities, and the Internet is becoming a brand-new hydropower for the whole industry. The proposal of "internet plus" also made the public realize for the first time the role of mobile Internet in the transformation of China.

Compared with the United States, Internet attacks in China are as follows.

1) infrastructure overtaking

Mobile base stations: Except for high-density cities, other parts of the United States are sparsely populated, and profit-seeking suppliers are unwilling to pay for areas with low profitability, resulting in incomplete coverage of base stations in the United States. While China Mobile Unicom has access to state administrative power. Under the requirements of the general policy, the technical capabilities of operators such as China Mobile and China Unicom are forced to achieve large-scale coverage.

Mobile payment: At present, mobile payment in China has been popularized everywhere, Alipay and WeChat have become necessities in supermarkets and restaurants, while the United States is still in the stage of swiping credit cards, which is extremely inconvenient, and the transfer even needs to be completed by cheque. We have realized mobile transfer.

O2O: At present, restaurant ordering and takeout in the United States are still traditional telephone ordering, which is extremely inconvenient. All standardized links such as inquiry, queuing and payment have already been realized in China, which is an unprecedented experience for all Americans.

2) Catch up with cutting-edge technology

The above represents the overtaking of China's infrastructure, while China is not inferior to others in cutting-edge technology.

Baidu, at present, Baidu represents the most advanced technical force in China. It invests 20% of its income in technology research and development every year.

In February this year, MIT Science and Technology Review rated Baidu's Deep Speech2 deep speech learning technology as one of the top ten breakthrough technologies, along with aerospace technology and nano-engineering, and it was also the only company selected in China. In June, MIT Science and Technology Review listed Baidu as the second innovative company among the "Top 50 Innovative Companies in the World", directly above Tesla, ZTE and Huawei. At the same time, in June of this year, 5438+ 10, Fortune magazine named Baidu, Google, Microsoft and Facebook as the four giants of AI, and they are also the only enterprises in China.

Iflytek is also a very technical representative enterprise, and its deep voice technology has been applied to various industries, accounting for more than 80% of the mainstream industries such as telecommunications, finance, electric power and social security, with more than 10000 development partners, which has reached a certain scale.

Huawei, at present, Huawei has obtained 50,377 patents worldwide, including 30,924 patents in China, and has been investing heavily in technology and intellectual property.

With the overtaking of infrastructure and the catching-up of cutting-edge technologies, the innovation ability of Internet companies in China is not what it used to be, and it has always been the object that major Internet companies in the United States began to learn.