Let's talk about innovation | Zheng Lei: Pickled Fresh City | Numbers | Zheng Lei
Today in Shanghai, innovation is everywhere. How to dig out the seeds of innovation and allow new people and ideas in the innovation circle to blend and interact? At the Digital and Mobile Governance Laboratory of Fudan University, a crowdsourcing salon called "Pickled Fresh" is like an incubator for innovation, allowing entrepreneurs, researchers, and managers to cross connect from online to offline, gather talents from all over the world, and create more space and stage for innovation and entrepreneurship for young people.
The documentary short film series "Everyone Talks about Innovation" jointly produced by the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Shanghai Municipal Committee's External Propaganda Office, and the Wenhui Newspaper is currently popular, telling the vivid practice of Shanghai accelerating the construction of a globally influential science and technology innovation center from an expert perspective. Today, we will release the second episode of "Pickled Fresh". Zheng Lei, a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University and director of the Digital and Mobile Governance Laboratory, will take you to a crowdsourcing salon to participate in a collision of ideas, enter the hot scene of urban digital governance, and experience the smart city empowered by innovation.
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▲ "Pickled Fresh"
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Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University
Director of the Digital and Mobile Governance Laboratory
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Innovation requires collision, stimulation, and integration with others.
Innovation in urban governance is a symphony, not a solo.
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A truly smart city is one where technology is at the bottom and empowered behind the scenes.
Collision, stimulation, and blending, "stewing" delicious food
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"You may be familiar with pickled duck fresh food, which is a spring delicacy in the Jiangnan region. Why does Zhongchuang Salon use pickled duck fresh as a 'homophone'? I think pickled duck fresh actually reflects a cross-border collision, stimulation, and integration."
"To govern a great country is like cooking small dishes. If you add too much water, it will be too light; if you add too much salt, it will be too salty. The cleverness of using salted meat is that you don't need to add salt, because salted meat comes with 'refined salt', which is experience. Zheng Lei will compare it to salted meat, fresh meat, and spring bamboo shoots that are used in the 'salted do fresh' co creation salon by people of different ages, backgrounds, and fields." Put them together, collide, and slowly 'stew', perhaps you can 'stew' a delicious dish. "
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Zheng Lei said that the "do" of "pickled and fresh" represents an action, and innovation is not just sitting there talking, but also to truly produce products and design, and form innovative solutions through joint cooperation. Innovation is not something that can be imagined by just one person, it requires collision, stimulation, and integration with others in order to incubate results.
"We have done a mass innovation activity here, cooperated with the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Jing'an District, invited people from all fields to explore how to use the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and other means to let our students find jobs; at the same time, let the" pit "find the" turnip ", let the company find the needed talents."
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As a research and experience center, the mission of the Digital and Mobile Governance Laboratory is to study the opportunities and challenges that government governance will face in the digital and mobile era. Zheng Lei believes that placing "pickled and fresh" in the context of government governance innovation brings inspiration that the digital transformation of urban governance is not only the responsibility of the government, but also a symphony, not a solo. If we compare the government to "salted meat", we also need "fresh meat", which is the new ideas of young people, startups, innovation teams, including new ideas from citizens... To put them together across borders, we need to coordinate multiple parties in the process, forming a pattern of co construction, co governance, and sharing.
Entering the Xuhui District Administrative Service Center, in the spacious and comfortable first floor lobby, the "zero difference" comprehensive business windows are neatly arranged, achieving the goal of "running through one window and doing everything". The reception personnel are like "general practitioners" receiving everyone who comes for "consultation". Zheng Lei said, "In the 'One Network Service' of government services, many processes are reengineered and services are designed around the specific needs and pain points of the people, making it more convenient for citizens to do things, less running, less carrying documents, and less spending time. Each small innovation point becomes a big 'nuclear explosion point' from the beginning."
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The Pudong New Area Urban Operation Comprehensive Management Center, known as the "urban brain", has been upgraded from 1.0 iteration to version 4.0, initially forming an intelligent governance support system with full domain perception, full integration, panoramic empowerment, and full-time response. It continuously innovates under the empowerment of technology. Zheng Lei used a metaphor: "Urban operation of 'one network management' is like the two feet of a swan. On the water surface, there are elegant swans, but beneath the water surface, there are actually two feet vigorously moving. In the process of urban digital transformation and smart city construction, the goal of these people who discover and solve problems is to enable the people to enjoy the tranquility of time."
He also pointed out that technology is a double-edged sword. The digital transformation of cities is not about digitization for the sake of digitization, but also requires a starting point and foothold, which is whether people's feelings can bring a sense of gain, happiness, and security to citizens. To make technology and cities revolve around people, rather than letting cities and people revolve around technology.
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What is the focus of future innovation? Zheng Lei believes that the first thing to consider is where the pain points of citizens and enterprises lie, and to solve problems and meet needs. A truly smart city, where technology is at the bottom and behind the scenes, empowering people's lives, work, and learning. "Users can enjoy the benefits of digital transformation without feeling disturbed or having to pay too much learning costs. This is the result that true digital transformation should bring."
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The Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
External Propaganda Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
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Wenhui Newspaper
Chief Producer: Wang Wei
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Director: Wen Die
Photography: Chen Longwang Unexpectedly Becomes Zhou Junchao and Zhang Ting
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Editing: Qi Jun
Translation: Wang Ruilin Yan
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