“正如由美国、英国、中国三国工程学院院长在《思想的力量》一文中所述,重大的挑战是对行动的召唤,他们引燃了一个不断扩大的全球性的全民运动,并改变着人们对未来的思考,以及工程在创造未来的过程中所承担的职责的思考”。
这段话,来自中国最年轻的工程院院士邓中翰的演讲。他是继比尔·盖茨、马云之后的第三位主旨演讲人。
“这项号召全人类共同参与的行动将激发一种新的精神,给予我们一股力量,去面对和克服未来所将面临的一切未知挑战。这项运动将启发我们工程师不断去寻找处理各种不确定问题的新方法。这项运动,将倡导我们保持勇于奉献和付出的精神,关心人类的命运、关心地球的生存、关注我们人类的未来。这是我们对未来的愿景,共同的期待。”
2017年7月19日,中国工程院院士、中星微集团董事局主席邓中翰,在美国华盛顿大学,用流利的英文向来自三国的院士专家、学生代表等讲述中国应对全球重大挑战的决心、行动与成果,向世界推介中国工程科技领域的原创突破与重大成就,讲述中国故事,传递中国声音:
中国工程科技界的创新正在进行,为世界贡献中国智慧
“大道之行也,天下为公”,世界各国应共担责任,化解全球挑战
除此之外,他还在演讲中讲述了这样一个中国式创新的故事:
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“ I come from Beijing, China. It is a beautiful city!
我来自中国,北京。一个非常美丽的城市!
Look at the sky, it’s pretty. It might be different from your recent impressions from various media reports of a city suffering from heavy smog, traffic jam, and all kinds of environmental problems.
照片上的天空是很漂亮的。这可能与您近期从各种媒体上看到的负面报道不大一样,北京似乎是一个受到雾霾、交通堵塞和各种环境污染问题影响的城市。
Let me start with a story about those bicycles.
让我从这些自行车的故事开始讲起吧。
自行车王国的故事
In the 80s, about 30 years ago, China used to be famous for being the "Kingdom of the Bicycles". At that time, bicycle was the primary way of transportation in China for most Chinese. Each family had about 2 bicycles on average, with the total number of 670 million bikes in the country.
大约30年前,上世纪80年代,中国曾以“自行车王国”闻名。那时候,对于大多数中国人,自行车是最主要的交通工具。每个家庭平均约有2辆自行车,全国顶峰时期平均保有量达到6.7亿辆。
As China’s economy grows to become the second largest economy in the world, people turn to cars for commuting every day, and stop using bicycles, which have been almost forgotten for many years.
然而,随着中国经济迅猛增长,发展成为世界第二大经济体,汽车逐渐取代了自行车成为代步工具,人们仿佛不再骑自行车了。
The total number of car shoots up from 10 million to 190 million. However,can you imagine if 1.4 billion people use cars like bicycles, with two cars per family, how much pollution it will cause? How much gasoline will be consumed? And how much congestion will happen on our roads? It can be a disaster!
中国私家车保有量如雨后春笋般从1000万暴涨至1.9亿。但是,你能想象,如果有14亿人都像骑自行车一样去开汽车,每个家庭都拥有两辆汽车,这将会造成多少污染?要消耗多少汽油?道路上会发生多少拥堵?这将是个巨大的问题!
But I am not here today, to repeat the story of how bicycle use can reduce the number of cars, energy consumption, pollution, and congestion. I am here to talk about this new breed of bikes.
我今天在这里,并不是想宣扬要用自行车替代汽车,去减少能源消耗、污染和拥堵等问题。我想跟大家聊聊的,是这种新型自行车。
共享单车
In China,we call it “shared bicycles on demand.” It is so popular all over China that the market jumped from 2 million units in 2015 to 20 million units in 2016, and it can surge to 50 million by the end of this year. It is truly phenomenal!
这种自行车,被称作“共享单车”,现在在中国各地非常受欢迎,短短一年时间内,全国投放量已经从2015年的200万辆陡然升至2016年的2000万辆,到今年年底可能会增至5000万辆。当之无愧成为现象级产品!
Here the question arises: to what extent are these bikes different from those 30 years ago?and how are they different from those bikes parked outside here in Washington D.C. with fixed docking stations along the streets here?
那么这些自行车与30年前的自行车有什么不同呢?它们与华盛顿特区,在我们外面停放的那些有桩的自行车又有什么不同呢?
These bikes are of the same size, the same style,they are either in yellow, in orange, or in blue;Operated by different Internet startup companies.
请看,这些自行车具有相同的尺寸和外观,有各种不同的颜色,比如黄色,橙色或蓝色;分别由不同的互联网新兴公司运营。
Even more so, these bikes have new modern electronics installed, which connect to the internet wirelessly, to GPS, to cloud computing, to database, to mobile payment system, to the central managing platform that even collect big data and apply artificial intelligence.
特别的是,这些自行车安装了新型现代电子设备,无线连接到互联网、GPS、云计算、数据库、移动支付系统、甚至连接到收集大数据和应用人工智能的中央管理平台。
Look at this electronic lock, it is full of all kinds of high-tech staff: Silicon, software,battery, antennae, GPS, bluetooth, mobile communication chipsets…., it is a full-blown computing device!
看看这个电子锁,具有很多高科技含量:里面安装了芯片、软件、电池、天线、GPS、蓝牙、移动通信芯片组……,简直就是一个完整的计算机装置!”
共享单车入驻英国!曼城老外掀起“炫车”浪潮
前不久,摩拜单车进驻英国第二大城市曼彻斯特,一夜过去,满大街都是橙橙火火银银惚惚的共享单车。曼城人对共享单车充满了热情,各大社交网站上纷纷晒出骑车照片,曼城老外乐懵了掀起一大波“炫车”浪潮!甚至有的开启了“打卡抢沙发”模式!
“小伙伴们早上好~本人刚刚初次骑了共享单车,感受十分棒!”
许多市民认为来自中国的共享单车能改变当地人的出行方式,让城市更环保,更健康。
“人生初次运用共享单车,实在是太风趣了!!!”
“今日初次测验共享单车,很棒,骑起来很舒畅,APP也很容易用。希望在曼城获得大成功!”
“ With plenty of bikes parked around the corners of public facilities, like subway stations, office buildings, shops, or parks, you just need to scan the barcode on the bike with your mobile phone, and unlock the bike through the mobile internet pay system; Or, you can locate a bike on the GPS by turning on the apps on your cellphone. It’s much more convenient!
您在许多公众场所都可以看到停有大量这样的共享单车,比如地铁站、写字楼、商店或者公园等地方。您只需要用手机扫描自行车上的条形码,云端的管理系统便会自动解锁自行车;您还可以打开手机上的APP,通过 GPS 找到离自己最近的待用单车。中国的这种共享单车更为方便!
Fees? How much does it cost? It costs no more than 1 yuan, or just 15 US cents for 30 minutes. No kidding! It’s much cheaper! All you need is a smart phone. No wonder people say "two wheels are only a smart phone away."
使用这样一辆自行车需要花多少钱呢?每30分钟只需不超过1元人民币,也就是15美分。不是开玩笑!真的很便宜!你只需要有一部智能手机就可以了。难怪人们说:“两轮的单车离你不远,只差一部智能手机的距离……”
In much the same way as the US based Tesla reinventing electric cars, China is now reinventing the bicycles! We are not just inventing wheels, but we are reinventing two wheels!
就像美国的特斯拉重新发明电动汽车一样,中国正在重新发明自行车!美国有一个常见的笑话,叫做不要反复发明轮子,我们在这开个小小的玩笑:我们不是反复发明轮子,而是重新发明了两个轮子。哈哈。
According to statistics, last year in 2016, the total distance traveled by those shared bikes was over 2.5 billion kilometers, equivalent to traveling between earth and moon 3300 times, it saved 460 million gallons of gasoline, cutting down 4.5 billion micrograms emission of PM2.5 which causes smog in Beijing, reducing CO2 emission by 540 thousand tons.
根据数据显示,在过去的2016年,全国共享单车骑行总距离超过25亿公里,相当于往返月球3300次;累计节约4.6亿升汽油;减少了45亿微克导致北京雾霾的PM2.5的物质排放;减少碳排放54万吨。
Furthermore, the “shared bike on demand” business model attracted huge amount of venture capital investments and entrepreneurship, and many startup companies were founded.
“共享单车”的商业模式吸引了一大批风投和新兴创业公司投身于此。
Several leading startups’ valuations have been over $1 billion, like the US based Uber and Airbnb, they become the “unicorns”, very successful!
几家行业领先公司估值已经超过10亿美元,就像美国的优步和爱彼迎公司一样,成功跻身入“独角兽公司”行列!
This success story of bike-sharing testified how problems can be solved through hardcore engineering, like many other examples in history, challenges are equal to opportunities, and grand challenges are equal to grand opportunities. As engineers like you and me, once we are engaged, solutions to these challenges can be found, and must be created and implemented. That’s why engineers will always proudly play a leading role!
共享单车的案例,完美诠释了硬朗的工程技术是如何解决挑战问题的,就像历史上的许多其他事迹一样,挑战意味着机会,而巨大的挑战将孕育出巨大的机会。当我们这些工程师参与其中,任何问题都难不倒我们,我们一定可以找到解决挑战的办法,并且去实实在在的推动创造和落实。这就是为什么工程师永远自豪地发挥领导作用! ”
大道之行也,天下为公
More than 2000 years ago, Confucius, arguably the most influential and respected philosopher, said, "大道之行也,天下为公!”-"The greatest road is the one for all underheaven!”
2000多年前,中国古代的哲人,伟大的思想家孔子曾说,“大道之行也,天下为公”。
“天下”,is literally translatedas “all under heaven.”
“天下”的英文是“all under heaven.”
For today, “天下-All under heaven”,is a call for a community of common destiny for all mankind;Based on which, we seek out solutions to rise to Grand Challenges with broad vision and global perspectives.
对于今天,“天下”呼呼我们共建命运共同体。我们将以宽广的远见和博大的胸怀,一同寻找解决重大挑战的方法。
For this inter-connected world, “天下-All under heaven”,is a call for a sense of joint responsibility, to work together, to help each other, to share the burden, and to ride over crisis.
对于这个互联互通的世界,“天下”,呼唤我们要有共同担当的责任感。携手努力、共同担当,同舟共济、共渡难关。
Among the audience here today, there are many leading scientists, technologists, and engineers.
今天在座有很多顶尖的科学家、技术专家和工程师。
You are the best minds in this world.
你们是世界上最优秀的人才。
You live in an era that calls for a great sense of mission.
你们生活在一个无比需要使命感的年代。
You are the most capable person to solve the Grand Challenges for mankind.
你们是最有能力去解决人类重大挑战问题的人。
You have the ability to care for others, safeguard the earth, and build up a better future for the people.
你们有能力去照顾别人,守护地球,为全世界人民缔造美好未来。
You may choose to win the hearts and minds by working for the betterment of all mankind.
你们可以选择为全人类的利益去担当。
When we love what we do, we can greatly contribute to the society. Therefore, we will be empowered to awaken that deepest hope in our hearts.
当我们所热爱的事业,可以贡献出我们对社会的价值,将会真正激发和唤醒我们内心深处的永恒希望!
Ladies, and Gentlemen, my fellow engineers,
"All under heaven" ,we need you all!
Let’s roll up our sleeves! Let’s roll!
女士们、先生们,工程师们,
“天下”需要你们!
让我们,撸起袖子加油干吧!
演讲者介绍
邓中翰,在美国伯克利留学5年,拿到了电子工程学博士、物理学硕士和经济学硕士三个学位,成为伯克利建校130多年第一个横跨理、工、商三个学科的毕业生。当时伯克利校长田长霖说“你这个中国留学生创造了一个奇迹。”
在美国加州大学伯克利分校的网站上,他被这样描述—“星光中国芯工程”总指挥、第八届中国科协副主席、数字多媒体芯片技术国家重点实验室主任、中国最年轻的工程院院士邓中翰:“他的企业,成功占领了全球计算机图像输入芯片市场60%以上的份额,位居世界第一。”
“科学没有国界,但科学家有祖国”。1999年10月1日,邓中翰应邀回国参加建国50周年国庆观礼,并受到了党和国家领导人的亲切接见和殷切召唤。为了祖国集成电路事业的起步,他毅然放弃了在美国的成功事业和优裕生活。在国家工信部(原信息产业部)的直接领导下,承担并启动了国家“星光中国芯工程”,并在北京中关村创建了中星微电子公司,开启了回国创新创业的新历程。
作为我国大规模集成电路芯片系统设计技术及产业化的主要开拓者之一,邓中翰带领“星光中国芯工程”第一次将“中国芯”大规模打入国际市场,被苹果、三星、索尼、惠普、联想、华为等采用,占领了全球计算机图像输入芯片60%以上的市场份额;中星微电子公司也成为我国第一家在美国纳斯达克上市的芯片核心技术设计企业,荣获2006年全球半导体设计协会年度大奖,彻底结束了中国无“芯”历史,邓中翰院士也因此被誉为“中国芯之父”。
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