At the 2026 "China Entrepreneur" Future Stars Annual Conference, the founder of XbotPark Robotics Base, Dean of the Shenzhen Institute of Science and Innovation, and Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Lee Zexiang, delivered a keynote speech.
He emphasized that artificial intelligence must be integrated with real-world physical environments such as maritime, land, and aerial domains, with hardware products being the essential link connecting AI to these scenarios. The Greater Bay Area possesses the world's most unique supply chain advantages, with an iteration speed 10 to 30 times faster than Silicon Valley and costs only one-tenth as high.
Lee pointed out that China's manufacturing sector must move away from a path solely reliant on overseas brands and instead cultivate a group of internationally influential consumer-facing (C-end) independent brands. These brands, built by young entrepreneurs in their 20s, will act as the "locomotive" driving the upgrade of the business-to-business (B-end) industrial chain, including chips, materials, and equipment, thereby establishing a genuine "new manufacturing" system.
He also noted that the achievements of universities lie not only in the commercialization of research but also in "talent cultivation." His team is working backward from the profile of hard-tech entrepreneurs to reshape education at the university, high school, and even elementary school levels, with early-stage explorations underway in science and innovation kindergartens.
By reforming the education system to cultivate innovative talents with first-principles thinking and systems engineering capabilities, Lee believes this is the fundamental solution to overcoming the global challenge of technology commercialization.
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