Macau Youth Makers Embrace High Quality Development Opportunities in Mainland China | Chen Zhenjie | Youth
Qingdao, August 9th (Xinhua) - Unlike most young people in Macau, Chen Zhenjie did not choose to find a job in finance, tourism, or government agencies after graduating from university. Born in Macau and studying in mainland China, he chose to become an entrepreneur in the field of technology.
31 year old Chen Zhenjie has nearly 10 years of entrepreneurial experience. In 2014, while still pursuing a postgraduate degree at Peking University, he and his classmates founded "Extreme Vision" company in Macau, focusing on the development and application of artificial intelligence visual algorithms. The following year, he moved his company to Shenzhen and became a "maker" in the Greater Bay Area. In 2021, he continued to move north and settled the headquarters of this enterprise, which already has thousands of users, in Qingdao, Shandong, actively participating in the high-quality development of the mainland's technology industry.
In Chen Zhenjie's view, "high-quality development" means an increase in reliance on technological elements. Technology affects quality and efficiency. To enhance international competitiveness, enterprises need to increase their investment in technology.
"Artificial intelligence is a key technology that helps enterprises achieve efficient and high-quality development. Many Chinese enterprises, especially industrial enterprises, have gradually achieved unmanned and automated production processes as much as possible," he said in an interview.
Chen Zhenjie believes that his company's growth from obscurity to having hundreds of employees and thousands of users is precisely due to the dividend of pursuing high-quality development.
The artificial intelligence visual algorithm mall established by him and his partners mainly utilizes intelligent technology to conduct real-time analysis of various types of surveillance videos in various industries, achieve automatic recognition and alarm, eliminate manual operations, and thus improve management efficiency. The application scenarios of the service include recognition of workers wearing safety helmets in factories, induction of electric vehicles entering elevators, and alarm in case of fire.
"The work that used to be done by the human eye is now done by machines," said Chen Zhenjie. In the past, public videos played a role in recording accidents, but if machines could understand the content of videos like humans, many accidents could be warned before and during the incident, and even avoided.
Over the past 8 years, Chen Zhenjie's company has developed over 1200 visual algorithms, covering over 100 industry applications and providing services to over 3000 government enterprises and research institutes. These achievements have earned him and several founders the honor of being selected as "elite entrepreneurs" by the media multiple times, and have also made their company an outstanding representative of mainland technology empowering traditional industries.
Chen Zhenjie said that the company faced the risk of being acquired during its startup. Some investors advised him to give up, but he gritted his teeth and persisted. Supporting him is not only his firm determination to start a business, but more importantly, his confidence in the development of the mainland.
Chen Zhenjie said that technology companies have a high demand for initial investment, market, and talent. The rapid development of mainland technology has given him and other founders opportunities. Traditional manufacturing cities like Qingdao have a perfect industrial structure, which will definitely provide enterprises engaged in artificial intelligence development with broader development space.
"Personal development can only find opportunities in the development of the times." Chen Zhenjie said that his career has gone from Macau to Shenzhen and from the Greater Bay Area to Qingdao, which was achieved in the context of national and industry development.
Nowadays, both the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area and many mainland provinces have successively introduced support policies to facilitate education, employment, and entrepreneurship for young people in Hong Kong and Macao. And Chen Zhenjie's story is just a wave in the trend of Hong Kong and Macau youth going north.
While actively participating in high-quality development in the mainland, Chen Zhenjie is also making efforts to help more Hong Kong and Macao youth integrate into the development of the mainland. His company is actively recruiting talents from Hong Kong and Macao, hoping to become the first stop for young people from Hong Kong and Macao to come to the mainland for employment.
"We hope to increase Hong Kong and Macau youth's understanding of the employment and entrepreneurship environment in the mainland through our own experiences, and better embrace the development of the mainland," said Chen Zhenjie.