National People's Congress Deputy and President of Fuzhou University of Technology Chen Guoying: Accelerate the evolution of digital AI into physical AI

Reporter Yu Shengliang from Securities Times

At this year’s National Two Sessions, Chen Guoying, a National People’s Congress delegate, counselor of Fujian Provincial Government, president of Fuzhou University of Technology, and the actual controller of Guomai Technology and Huihan Shares, proposed suggestions on improving internal data quality within enterprises and accelerating the issuance of L4 and L5 licenses.

As a long-term practitioner dedicated to applied higher education and digital industry development, Chen Guoying offered two suggestions for accelerating the promotion of China’s “Digital Empowerment” during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.

First, strengthening internal data governance and improving data quality are the foundations of digital empowerment. He believes that during the 14th Five-Year Plan, various industries in China have achieved fruitful results in digital empowerment through digital tools. However, there are common issues such as insufficient deep data mining and analysis, and low data governance quality within enterprises, making it difficult to identify problems and seize development opportunities from data. “If AI is compared to high-speed rail, then high-quality internal data within enterprises is the track. Without a good track, even the most advanced high-speed train cannot run smoothly,” Chen Guoying said.

Second, seizing the opportunity of AI intelligence iteration to cultivate new momentum for digital empowerment. He stated that during the 14th Five-Year Plan, global AI intelligence levels will rapidly improve, with each iteration of large models unlocking new capabilities and spawning new application scenarios and tracks. China should seize this opportunity, deeply integrate China’s manufacturing “hardware” capabilities with “going global” capabilities, and build a unique Chinese artificial intelligence “comprehensive organizational capability.” This “comprehensive organizational capability” will become a new driving force for accelerating digital empowerment during the 14th Five-Year Plan period and a core competitive advantage for Chinese enterprises.

Chen Guoying believes that currently, digital AI is moving out of screens to understand physical laws such as gravity, inertia, and collision in the real world. The next wave of AI is physical AI. Physical AI has three important fields: autonomous driving, humanoid robots, and intelligent manufacturing.

He points out that currently, autonomous driving lacks large amounts of real training data. He suggests that, under the premise of ensuring safety, the country should accelerate the issuance of highly automated L4 licenses and fully automated L5 licenses to capable automakers, while promoting transportation services, so that regulatory policies, hardware, and data move in the same direction, thereby advancing China’s autonomous driving technology.

He believes that during the 14th Five-Year Plan, China’s new energy vehicles will develop from electrification and intelligence toward transportation serviceization. The competitive edge will not be based on any single technology but on the efficiency of artificial intelligence “digital empowerment” and the speed of physical AI evolution. Accelerating the progress of autonomous driving is not only necessary for China to maintain its advantages in the new energy vehicle industry but also essential for speeding up the evolution from digital AI to physical AI.