In fact, wherever you look, Chinese culture and history are rich with evidence of applied engineering’s contribution to creating a harmonious society. The same is true today. Science and Technology is helping build a harmonious society. I think perhaps a lot of this is to do with the practical experience of so many Chinese leaders.

Sadly, there are very few engineers in senior positions in European governments. Even in European businesses, the same is too often true. In China, engineers get much more respect！That’s why I was able to build on my initial relationship with the ministry of astronautics to create the first joint training programme with Chinese industry at Warwick Manufacturing Group in 1989. That programme helped three thousand young Chinese engineers achieve advanced engineering quali fi cations.

Their successes on their return home meant that we asked to work with SAFEA to offer advanced engineering education to more Chinese graduates and managers. More than twenty thousand Chinese students, workers and scientists have bene fi tted from WMG education programmes. Each year, we teach over six hundred students and managers on advanced programmes and on short, practically relevant, intensive courses.

The Focus of Global Innovation Will be In China

Vice Premier Liu Yandong told me when she visited WMG “The collaboration of Chinese organisations working with WMG is key to innovation.”

Vice-Premier Liu’s belief in collaboration once again reminds me of my fi rst visit to China; I saw the vast potential of Chinese science and technology. Over my thirty visits since, I’ve seen that potential more than fulfilled. The next stage of that journey is embodied in President Xi’s “Chinese Dream”, which puts innovation at the heart of Chinese growth. It is seen in action in the“Made in China 2025” plan, placing ever greater focus on human talent, quality of production, and environmental security.

This means China -and the world- is entering a new role, where the focus of global innovation will be in China. Your success will draw the world to you. Of course, some people worry about the short term. They focus on the events of a week, or a month,or even a year. But it’s important to step back and see the trends that truly matter.

Economically, Chinese demand is projected to grow by four trillion dollars over the next decade. The impact of this is staggering. China’s success means there will be thirty million extra car sales each year. At WMG, we work very closely with Jaguar Land Rover. They know that China is the key to their future. Land Rover has opened their fi rst manufacturing plant in China not merely for export, but because they know their designers and engineers must drive on Chinese roads as part of understanding the needs of Chinese customers. China’s success means that the need for fast, reliable, low carbon travel will lead to China being the global home of permanent magnet synchronous traction superfast bullet trains. China’s success means there will soon be a billion more people connected to high-speed mobile internet. This will change the prospects of businesses thousands of miles away.

At WMG, we work with an innovative British musical instrument designer. They make classical brass instruments such as trumpets and trombones, but from advanced plastics -reducing the cost and environmental impact. Their instruments are manufactured in China for export today, but they know that selling online to Chinese consumers and distributors will be crucial to their future growth. In turn, that means they will need Chinese designers and managers. China’s success means there will be an annual health and wellness market of over seventy billion dollars.

Such growth will have consequences for technologists all around the world. It will mean an ever greater need for qualified, skilled, innovative engineers and workers, in China and beyond. It will require a greater focus on the needs of the Chinese people - making products that better meet their requirements, designed for their circumstances. Most of all, it will mean that your scientific, research and educational partners must understand the challenges and opportunities China faces in meeting the hopes of her people. We already know the greatest shared challenge we must address together.

The growth of the global economy will drive energy demand ever higher. In 2015, President Xi visited Britain. He stressed the importance of meeting these energy needs sustainably and responsibly. It is a message I have heard personally from many Chinese leaders - including both Vice-Premier Madame Liu Yandong and Vice-Premier Ma Kai when they visited us at WMG. At WMG, we are relentlessly focusing on these are the home of Britain’s National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC), a nine hundred million yuan capital will bring four thousand scientists and technologists together to develop smarter, lighter and greener transport.

全球创新将聚焦中国

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