第一篇:全球私人顶级医疗健康峰会在京举行
全球私人顶级医疗健康峰会在京举行
2012年06月16日09:01来源:
人民网北京6月16日电(记者傅立波、许晓华)近日,来自世界各国的优秀医疗专家、医疗旅行专业人士在北京丽思卡尔顿酒店参加了由北京名仕优翔国际旅行社有限公司主办的“让生命优美飞翔——全球私人顶级医疗健康峰会”,共同就世界医疗旅行的发展现状及世界前沿医疗健康科技进行了交流和探讨。
据优翔总经理周凯文介绍:“世界医疗旅行主要满足两类人群的需求,一方面是美国、英国等医疗费用昂贵国家的病人前往墨西哥、巴西、新加坡、台湾、马来西亚、泰国等寻求价格低廉而技术可靠的医疗服务,而另外一类人群,则是如中国、俄罗斯、中东等发展中国家的富裕人士前往欧美、日本、韩国、澳洲等医疗水平较高的国家寻找更加先进的医疗服务。”除前往世界优秀医疗机构满足健康需求之外,旅行过程中还配备有私人旅行顾问、私密行程设计、后续健康管理,这样一趟旅程的花费大约在几万到几十万不等,目前国内选择海外医疗旅行的消费者大多为跨国公司高层、私营企业主等社会精英。以优翔统计数据为例,自2006年开创中国医疗旅行行业起,共计接待上千位客人,其中不乏福布斯上榜人物。
此次参会的多位国际专家都是首次到访中国,如瑞士静港中心医院的抗衰老专家哈扎?塔瓦索利,欧洲医疗旅行公司的创始人Tim Vicknair先生,韩国EHS医疗旅行公司、峨山医院及抗衰老与美容整形权威机构组成的机构代表团等,会议中各位嘉宾共同就国际医疗旅行、疾病防治、抗衰老等领域的全球发展状况进行了主题演讲,并针对中国消费者所关心的问题进行了解答。
医疗旅行是现代旅游业中的高度细分产业,将疾病治疗、疗养、健康管理与旅行相融合,一方面满足消费者多样化的健康旅行需求,另外也为一个国家的经济、服务、旅游、医疗等产业的发展带来了机遇。中国也正在制定关于医疗旅行的国家战略,对其中涉及到的医疗、高端旅行、私人定制等跨领域服务能力的建设、从业机构的规范和管理提出行业发展指导。优翔也希望籍由此次国际医疗旅行论坛,探索和完善更适合中国消费者的专业服务。
第二篇:2021全球健康峰会心得体会三
全球健康峰会心得体会
国家主席习近平21日晚在北京以视频方式出席全球健康峰会并发表重要讲话,立足当下、着眼未来,就推进全球抗疫合作提出五点意见,宣布支持全球抗疫合作五大举措,为全球尽早战胜疫情、实现经济复苏指明前进方向,注入强劲力量。
分享中国经验
传递信心希望。“坚持人民至上、生命至上”“坚持科学施策,统筹系统应对”“坚持同舟共济,倡导团结合作”“坚持公平合理,弥合‘免疫鸿沟’”“坚持标本兼治,完善治理体系”……讲话中,习近平主席就推进全球抗疫合作提出五点意见。
这五点意见既总结和梳理了中国过去一段时间在抗疫方面行之有效的经验,同时也针对新的形势,为下阶段推动抗疫国际合作提出了前瞻性看法。
一年多来,疫情起伏反复,病毒频繁变异,百年来最严重的传染病大流行仍在肆虐。近期,随着疫苗接种进程加快,一些国家相继“解封”,然而变异新冠病毒的不断出现,却又给全面解封前景蒙上阴影。
与此同时,中国疫情防控取得重大战略成果,在转入疫情防控常态化阶段后,还多次成功应对了多个地方出现的散发病例。得益于疫情防控成果,中国经济稳步复苏。今年4月,国际货币基金组织发布报告预测,2021年和2022年,中国经济将分别增长8.4%和5.6%。此外,国际货币基金组织还发布《全球金融稳定报告》表示,中国采取的措施迅速有效,得以比其他任何国家更快走出疫情危机。
“在这样的背景下,各方更迫切希望了解中国统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展的经验,急切期盼更多合作。”中国国际问题研究院美国研究所副所长苏晓晖说,习近平主席此次峰会期间的“经验分享”,将为各国提供宝贵的借鉴。
“要保证人民群众生活少受影响、社会秩序总体正常”“统筹常态化精准防控和应急处置,统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展”“疫苗研发和生产大国要负起责任,多提供一些疫苗给有急需的发展中国家”……这些理念主张已被中国实践证明行之有效,也契合全球抗疫斗争需要,具有很强的操作性和借鉴意义,是务实之举,也是治本之策,是将本国人民和他国人民健康乃至全球的公共健康统筹起来考虑的胸怀和担当。
宣布务实举措
贡献中国力量。推动抗疫国际合作,中国始终言行合一。“中国新冠疫苗研发完成并投入使用后,将作为全球公共产品,为实现疫苗在发展中国家的可及性和可担负性作出中国贡献。”这是一年前,习近平主席在第七十三届世界卫生大会上作出的郑重承诺。
如今,中国已向全球供应3亿剂疫苗。在产能有限、自身需求巨大的情况下,中国履行承诺,向80多个有急需的发展中国家提供疫苗援助,向43个国家出口疫苗……英国《金融时报》近期统计显示,拉美地区10个人口最多的国家至今共收到1.435亿剂新冠疫苗,其中超过半数来自中国。
中国工程院院士钟南山说,随着5月7日中国医药集团北京生物制品研究所研发的新冠灭活疫苗正式通过世卫组织紧急使用认证,我国的国际疫苗合作已经从双边层面提升至国际公共疫苗层次。在中国践行将新冠疫苗作为全球公共产品承诺的行动中,中国研发的新冠疫苗正发挥越来越大的作用。
不仅是疫苗,一年前中国宣布支持全球抗疫合作的多项举措,都在抓紧落实中:为受疫情影响的发展中国家抗疫以及恢复经济社会发展提供援助;向150多个国家和13个国际组织提供了抗疫物资援助,为全球供应了2800多亿只口罩、34亿多件防护服、40多亿份检测试剂盒;中非建立了41个对口医院合作机制,中国援建的非洲疾控中心总部大楼项目已于去年年底正式开工;中国同联合国合作在华设立全球人道主义应急仓库和枢纽取得重要进展;全面落实二十国集团“暂缓最贫困国家债务偿付倡议”,是二十国集团成员中落实缓债金额最大的国家;
中国克服困难、履行承诺,向疫情防控能力相对薄弱的广大发展中国家提供有力支持和援助,充分彰显中国既对本国人民生命安全和身体健康负责,也对全球公共卫生事业尽责的大国担当。
在未来3年内再提供30亿美元国际援助,用于支持发展中国家抗疫和恢复经济社会发展;将尽己所能对外提供更多疫苗;支持本国疫苗企业向发展中国家进行技术转让,开展合作生产;支持世界贸易组织等国际机构早日就支持新冠肺炎疫苗知识产权豁免作出决定;倡议设立疫苗合作国际论坛,探讨如何推进全球疫苗公平合理分配……
这些举措既着眼全局又突出重点,聚焦当前疫苗生产、分配等诸多实际问题,直面全球抗疫“切肤之痛”,有助于尽早建成全球免疫屏障。
第三篇:2021全球健康峰会心得体会二
全球健康峰会心得体会
5月21日晚,国家主席习近平应邀在北京以视频方式出席全球健康峰会,并发表题为《携手共建人类卫生健康共同体》的重要讲话。
习近平主席指出,一年多来,新冠肺炎疫情起伏反复,百年来最严重的传染病大流行仍在肆虐。早日战胜疫情、恢复经济增长,是国际社会首要任务。
在讲话中,习近平主席就全球抗疫合作发表5点意见,并为继续支持全球团结抗疫,郑重宣布中国即将采取的切实举措。
第一,坚持人民至上、生命至上。
●抗击疫情是为了人民,也必须依靠人民。
●实践证明,要彻底战胜疫情,必须把人民生命安全和身体健康放在突出位置,以极大的政治担当和勇气,以非常之举应对非常之事,尽最大努力做到不遗漏一个感染者、不放弃一个病患者,切实尊重每个人的生命价值和尊严。
●要保证人民群众生活少受影响、社会秩序总体正常。
第二,坚持科学施策,统筹系统应对。
●面对这场新型传染性疾病,我们要坚持弘扬科学精神、秉持科学态度、遵循科学规律。
●抗击疫情是一场总体战,要系统应对,统筹药物和非药物干预措施,统筹常态化精准防控和应急处置,统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展。
●二十国集团成员要采取负责任的宏观经济政策,加强相互协调,维护全球产业链供应链安全顺畅运转。
●要继续通过缓债、发展援助等方式支持发展中国家尤其是困难特别大的脆弱国家。
第三,坚持同舟共济,倡导团结合作。
●面对传染病大流行,我们要秉持人类卫生健康共同体理念,团结合作、共克时艰,坚决反对各种政治化、标签化、污名化的企图。
●搞政治操弄丝毫无助于本国抗疫,只会扰乱国际抗疫合作,给世界各国人民带来更大伤害。
第四,坚持公平合理,弥合“免疫鸿沟”。
●我们要摒弃“疫苗民族主义”,解决好疫苗产能和分配问题,增强发展中国家的可及性和可负担性。
●疫苗研发和生产大国要负起责任,多提供一些疫苗给有急需的发展中国家,支持本国企业同有能力的国家开展联合研究、授权生产。
●多边金融机构应该为发展中国家采购疫苗提供包容性的融资支持。
●世界卫生组织要加速推进“新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划”。
第五,坚持标本兼治,完善治理体系。
●我们要加强和发挥联合国和世界卫生组织作用,完善全球疾病预防控制体系,更好预防和应对今后的疫情。
●要坚持共商共建共享,充分听取发展中国家意见,更好反映发展中国家合理诉求。
●要提高监测预警和应急反应能力、重大疫情救治能力、应急物资储备和保障能力、打击虚假信息能力、向发展中国家提供支持能力。
全球健康峰会是在全球抗疫进程中召开的又一次重要峰会,也是今年全球卫生健康领域最高级别的多边峰会。全球健康峰会为二十国集团、国际和区域组织等提供了一个讨论抗击疫情的独特机会。峰会发表的《罗马宣言》将成为今后开展相关工作的行动指南,“我们是同一片大海的海浪”,只有通过国际合作和联合行动才能预防和应对全球重大突发公共卫生事件。“我们需要进行全球卫生合作,而不是单打独斗,这是这场疫情给世界的一个重要启迪。”
中国正以实际行动践行人类卫生健康共同体理念,习近平主席的讲话为推进全球抗疫合作指明了前进方向,各国应携手努力,共同守护人类健康美好未来。
第四篇:2021全球健康峰会心得体会一
全球健康峰会心得体会
5月21日晚,国家主席习近平应邀在北京以视频方式出席全球健康峰会,并发表题为《携手共建人类卫生健康共同体》的重要讲话。
习近平指出,一年多来,新冠肺炎疫情起伏反复,百年来最严重的传染病大流行仍在肆虐。早日战胜疫情、恢复经济增长,是国际社会首要任务。二十国集团成员应该在全球抗疫合作中扛起责任,着力提高应对重大突发公共卫生事件能力和水平。
习近平提出5点意见:
第一,坚持人民至上、生命至上。抗击疫情是为了人民,也必须依靠人民,必须以极大的政治担当和勇气,以非常之举应对非常之事,切实尊重每个人的生命价值和尊严,保证人民群众生活少受影响、社会秩序总体正常。
第二,坚持科学施策,统筹系统应对。要统筹药物和非药物干预措施,统筹常态化精准防控和应急处置,统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展。二十国集团成员要采取负责任的宏观经济政策,维护全球产业链供应链安全顺畅运转,继续支持发展中国家尤其是困难特别大的脆弱国家。
第三,坚持同舟共济,倡导团结合作。要秉持人类卫生健康共同体理念,坚决反对各种政治化、标签化、污名化的企图。搞政治操弄丝毫无助于本国抗疫,只会扰乱国际抗疫合作,给世界各国人民带来更大伤害。
第四,坚持公平合理,弥合“免疫鸿沟”。要摒弃“疫苗民族主义”,解决好疫苗产能和分配问题,增强发展中国家的可及性和可负担性。疫苗研发和生产大国要负起责任,多提供一些疫苗给有急需的发展中国家。多边金融机构应该为发展中国家采购疫苗提供融资支持。世界卫生组织要加速推进“新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划”。
第五,坚持标本兼治,完善治理体系。要加强和发挥联合国和世界卫生组织作用,坚持共商共建共享,更好反映发展中国家合理诉求。要提高监测预警和应急反应能力、重大疫情救治能力、应急物资储备和保障能力、打击虚假信息能力、向发展中国家提供支持能力。
为继续支持全球团结抗疫,习近平宣布:
——中国将在未来3年内再提供30亿美元国际援助,用于支持发展中国家抗疫和恢复经济社会发展。
——中国已向全球供应3亿剂疫苗,将尽己所能对外提供更多疫苗。
——中国支持本国疫苗企业向发展中国家进行技术转让,开展合作生产。
——中国已宣布支持新冠肺炎疫苗知识产权豁免,也支持世界贸易组织等国际机构早日就此作出决定。
——中国倡议设立疫苗合作国际论坛,由疫苗生产研发国家、企业、利益攸关方一道探讨如何推进全球疫苗公平合理分配。
习近平最后强调,让我们携手并肩,共同推动构建人类卫生健康共同体,共同守护人类健康美好未来!(讲话全文见第二版)
全球健康峰会由二十国集团主席国意大利和欧盟委员会联合倡议举办。会议以视频方式进行,主要讨论合作应对疫情、加强今后大流行防范等问题。峰会发表了《罗马宣言》,重申二十国集团将加强团结、深化合作、科学施策,将人民放在疫情防控工作中心,在金融、疫苗等方面加大对发展中国家的支持。
全球健康峰会是在全球抗疫进程中召开的又一次重要峰会,也是今年全球卫生健康领域最高级别的多边峰会。新冠肺炎疫情延宕已逾一年,疫情起伏反复,病毒频繁变异,形势仍然复杂严峻,国际社会急切期待更多的信心、希望和合作。在这一关键历史时刻,习近平主席再次登上国际舞台,从为人类谋健康、为世界谋发展的高度,发表题为《携手共建人类卫生健康共同体》的重要讲话,对提振多边主义,推动国际抗疫合作,引领全球卫生治理体系变革具有重大意义。
新冠肺炎疫情是百年来最严重的全球传染病大流行。面对疫情全球肆虐,习近平主席心系苍生,胸怀世界,领导开展新中国历史上规模最大的全球人道行动,为全球抗疫贡献中国智慧和力量,用实际行动践行人类卫生健康共同体理念。习近平主席去年以来先后出席二十国集团领导人应对新冠肺炎特别峰会、第73届世界卫生大会、联合国成立75周年系列高级别会议、金砖国家领导人会晤、亚太经合组织领导人非正式会议、二十国集团领导人峰会等十余场多边峰会,深刻阐述人类卫生健康共同体理念,提出一系列重大倡议和举措。在此次峰会上,习近平主席进一步提出推进国际抗疫合作的五项主张,宣布支持全球抗疫合作的五大举措,为全球尽早战胜疫情、实现经济复苏指明前进方向,作出新的贡献。
人的生命是最宝贵的。疫情暴发伊始,习近平主席就以巨大的政治勇气,提出人民至上、生命至上,始终把人民的生命健康放在第一位。
此次峰会上,习近平主席全面分享了中国抗疫经验,强调要彻底战胜疫情,必须把人民生命安全和身体健康放在突出位置,切实尊重每个人的生命价值和尊严。要弘扬科学精神、秉持科学态度、遵循科学规律。要统筹药物和非药物干预措施,统筹常态化精准防控和应急处置,统筹疫情防控和经济社会发展。这些理念主张被中国实践证明行之有效,也契合当前各国抗疫斗争需要,赢得广泛共鸣。以人民为中心、科学施策、统筹疫情防控和经济复苏等被写入峰会宣言。
疫情无国界。习近平主席在发言中引用古罗马警句,“我们是同一片大海的海浪”。事实上,“团结合作”是习近平主席阐述抗击疫情主张的最高频词汇。习近平主席旗帜鲜明地指出,团结合作是战胜疫情最有力的武器,要让合作的阳光驱散疫情的阴霾。
面对疫情反弹蔓延为全球抗疫合作带来的新挑战,习近平主席在此次峰会上再次强调,人类荣辱与共、命运相连,要秉持人类卫生健康共同体理念,团结合作、共克时艰,坚决反对各种政治化、标签化、污名化的企图。搞政治操弄丝毫无助于本国抗疫,只会扰乱国际抗疫合作,给世界各国人民带来更大伤害。
国际社会抗疫合作实践证明,构建人类卫生健康共同体,体现了各国人民普遍愿望,符合历史发展潮流,是应对人类共同挑战、建设更加美好世界的人间正道,赢得越来越广泛的理解和支持。
疫苗是战胜疫情的利器。习近平主席去年5月出席世界卫生大会率先宣布,中国新冠疫苗研发完成并投入使用后,将作为全球公共产品,为实现疫苗在发展中国家的可及性和可负担性作出中国贡献。中国是这么说的,也是这么做的。中方在大力推进国内疫苗接种的同时,向80多个国家提供疫苗援助,向43个国家出口疫苗。目前中方已向全球供应3亿剂疫苗,是世界上对外提供疫苗最多的国家。中国在自身疫苗需求巨大、供求矛盾十分突出的情况下,重信守诺,拿出一部分疫苗向发展中国家提供,给他们雪中送炭,帮助他们解燃眉之急,这一义举得到了国际社会广泛赞誉。中国疫苗安全性、有效性受到广泛认可,国药集团相关新冠疫苗被列入世界卫生组织紧急使用清单。中国已加入世卫组织“新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划”并承诺向其提供1000万剂疫苗,向联合国维和行动和国际奥委会提供疫苗等也取得积极进展。
抗击疫情各国有责,享有疫苗人人平等。针对当前全球疫苗接种不平衡问题愈加突出,习近平主席明确指出,要摒弃“疫苗民族主义”,解决好疫苗产能和分配问题,增强发展中国家的可及性和可负担性。疫苗研发和生产大国要负起责任,多提供一些疫苗给有急需的发展中国家,多边金融机构应该为发展中国家采购疫苗提供包容性的融资支持。习主席宣布,中国将尽己所能对外提供更多疫苗,支持本国疫苗企业向发展中国家进行技术转让,开展合作生产。中国已宣布支持新冠肺炎疫苗知识产权豁免,也支持世界贸易组织等国际机构早日就此作出决定。中国倡议设立疫苗合作国际论坛,由疫苗生产研发国家、企业、利益攸关方一道探讨如何推进全球疫苗公平合理分配。这些倡议和举措实实在在,展现了中国同各国共克时艰、携手战胜疫情的坚定意志,将有力推进国际疫苗合作,弥合“免疫鸿沟”,使疫苗真正成为各国人民用得上、用得起的公共产品。
中国在践行将疫苗作为全球公共产品的承诺方面亮出了最好的成绩单,这同个别国家自私自利、罔顾责任和道义,将疫情政治化、病毒污名化以及“疫苗民族主义”等言行形成鲜明对照。
突如其来的疫情全球大流行是一次“大考”,凸显了全球卫生治理体系存在的短板和漏洞,加强全球公共卫生治理能力建设迫在眉睫。习近平主席多次指出,类似新冠肺炎疫情的突发公共卫生事件绝不会是最后一次,必须开展全球行动、全球应对、全球合作。各方应坚持多边主义,加大对世界卫生组织的政治支持和资金投入,发挥其关键领导作用,不断完善全球卫生治理体系。
习近平主席在此次峰会上强调,要加强和发挥联合国和世界卫生组织作用,完善全球疾病预防控制体系,更好预防和应对今后的疫情。要坚持共商共建共享,充分听取发展中国家意见,更好反映发展中国家合理诉求。要提高监测预警和应急反应能力、重大疫情救治能力、应急物资储备和保障能力、打击虚假信息能力、向发展中国家提供支持能力。习主席强调,二十国集团成员应该在全球抗疫合作中扛起责任,同时要总结正反两方面经验,抓紧补短板、堵漏洞、强弱项,着力提高应对重大突发公共卫生事件能力和水平。习主席上述重要主张,为全球卫生治理把脉开方,为《罗马宣言》制定防范应对未来全球卫生危机原则提供了重要遵循。
新冠肺炎疫情是全球性挑战,各国只有团结合作,才能战而胜之。当前各国抗疫和经济复苏出现分化,发展中国家面临特殊困难和挑战,国际社会理应给予更多关注和支持。
中国作为发展中国家一员,始终想发展中国家之所想,急发展中国家之所急,尽己所能,帮助发展中国家应对疫情、稳定经济。习近平主席在第73届世卫大会上宣布的20亿美元援助已全部落实到位。中非建立了41个对口医院合作机制,中国援建的非洲疾控中心总部大楼项目已于去年年底正式开工。中国还全面落实二十国集团缓债倡议,总额超过13亿美元,是二十国集团成员中缓债金额最大的国家。
在此次峰会上,习近平主席继续推动国际社会照顾发展中国家关切,通过缓债、发展援助、能力建设等方式为发展中国家提供更大支持。习近平主席郑重宣布,中国将在未来3年内再提供30亿美元国际援助,用于支持发展中国家抗疫和恢复经济社会发展。这些举措有力提升了发展中国家应对疫情冲击的能力和信心,彰显了中国主持公平公道,始终维护发展中国家共同利益的正义立场。
大道不孤,大爱无疆。我们将以习主席重要讲话精神为指引,同国际社会携手深化团结合作,合力战胜疫情,为促进世界经济稳定增长、构建人类卫生健康共同体作出新的更大贡献!
第五篇:IBM-English——全球顶级CEO演讲词
Good evening!It is a great honor for me to share this stage with the Lord Mayor, chief executive of Hannover, with Mr.Yang, and in a few minutes with Chancellor Kohl.I have been looking forward to this evening for a long time, because I have known for many years how important CeBIT is to the global Information Technology industry.So before I go any further I want to thank you very much for inviting me to participate in this important forum.Now I have given a lot of thought as to what I would say to you this evening.On the one hand, I am here as a representative of the Information Technology industry on the event that is bigger by orders of magnitude than any other technology exhibit.That is quite a statement in a industry that is good at many things, especially celebrating its own creations.On the other hand, like most of you, I have spent most of my professional life as a customer of this industry.So I know that after the splash and promises comes the harsh light of morning and often the customer is left standing alone wondering what happened, or as the head of one of our most important German customers put it, “Yours is an industry that is very good at weddings and not so good at marriages.” So tonight, while I will talk about the power and potential of Information Technology, I hope the temper of my remarks with the perspective I had when I came to IBM five years ago, the perspective of a customer.Now it is certainly easy to see why raw technology dominates these events.It is adoptive;it is breathtaking;and it is penetrating every aspect of our lives.Today there are more PCs sold annually in the world than TVs or cars.The typical luxury automobile today has 20 to 30 microprocessors in it, more computing power by far than was inside the landing-craft that took the first astronauts to the moon.Last year there were five times more E-mail messages sent than the number of pieces of paper mail delivered worldwide, 2.7 trillion E-mails.And I got more than my share.There is another way to look at what is going on.In the mid-1970s, the first super computers appeared.They were capable of about 100 million calculations per second.And they cost about one million dollars.Today the laptop computer that college students carry in their bags, packs, is twice as fast as that first super computer, and it costs less than 3000 dollars.The trend in data storage is even more impressive.In the early 80s, the standard unit of computer storage, one mega-byte, or one million bytes of information, cost about 100 dollars.Today, it is 10 cents.In two years, it will cost 2 cents.These gains are driven by continuous advances in how we pack information into smaller and smaller spaces.If the US Library of Congress could shrink its collections of 17 million books by the same factor we just discussed, it could replace 800 kilometers of shelf space with less than 40 meters of space.These advances are going to continue and accelerate the rate microprocessors, storage, communications, memory, and all the other engines that are propelling this industry or continue to lead to the products of the faster, smaller, and less expensive, just as they have for 30 years.But as we stand here today, the opening of CeBIT, we are on the threshold of a very important change and the evolution of this industry.In many ways, this industry, a very emitory industry, is about to play out in its most important dimension.That is because the technology has become so powerful and so pervasive that its future impact on people and governments and all institutions will dwarf what has happened today.I believe there are two trends that are most significant here, and bare the closest watching.The first is what we call deep computing.The term is inspired by our chess-playing super computer Deep Blue, which I believe many of you know competed with the Grand Master Gary Kasparov last year.Deep Blue is an amazing machine, capable of 200 million moves per second.But speed, while essential, is not enough.After all, Deep Blue's predecessor was quite fast, but it loss to Gary Kasparov two years ago.The difference in second time around was an infusion of knowledge, human chess knowledge, thousands and thousands of chess moves, games and outcomes, captured as mathematical algorithms.This is what led Deep Blue to mimic the workings of the human mind, and race through millions of possible chess positions and extract the best one.And it worked rather well.But Deep Blue is emblematic of a whole class of emerging computer systems that combine ultra-fast processing with sophisticated analytical software.Today we are applying these systems to challenges that are far more vital than chess.Let me talk about two important application areas, starting with simulation.Simulation is about replacing physical things with digital things, recreating reality inside these powerful computer systems.In the farmer suitacle industry, the ability to simulate the interaction of chemicals, and do it in the computer rather than in test-tubes and Petri dishes, can speed up by years the discovery and testing of new farmer suitacle.Mercedes, BMW, Fiat, Volvo, SAAM all design cars today on computers, no physical markups, no models.And aviation does so, pioneer many of these techniques, and Boeing broke new ground when it designed the 777 airplane entirely on computers.It was a very bold move, and even some of Boeing's engineers had trepidations.I had trepidations because three month after I joined IBM I went out to Boeing to see my good friend Frank SCHURZ , who was the CEO.And Frank said to me, “Since this new airplane was built on your computers, maybe you should go on the first flight.” And I said, “It is my wife's birthday.” And he said, “I did not even tell you the date yet.Coward!” Computer simulation saves time, saves money, and it gives customers a competitive advantage, and it can do more than that.Recently the US department of energy asked IBM to build a gigantic super computer to simulate nuclear weapons so that they will never have to be exploded for test purposes, ever again.The second type of deep computing is what we call data mining--some people call it business intelligence, the ability to extract inside from mountains of information, and see relationships and trends that previously were not available or invisible.Banks are looking at spending patterns and other demographic data to see which customers are more profitable over the long haul.Health-care companies are analyzing millions of patient records to find hidden indicators of disease.These tools are also helping slash the staggering cost of insurance fraud in the health-care industry, which is a hundred-billion-dollar problem in the United States alone.Insurance companies can now spot every billion practices.One company in the United States has saved 38 million dollars, having invested only 400 thousand in this technology.In one instance they found a doctor, who was sending it a bill once a week for a procedure that particularnews, weathers, sports scores, online magazines called E-zines, and short consumer information.IBM has had a different view for some time.We believe the real potential of the network world is for conducting transactions of all kinds, between parties of all kinds, an effect that seems to be what is happening.Consider that across Europe Internet sales of about one billion dollars last year are projected to reach 30 billion dollars by the year 2001.One study says that the worldwide Internet commerce activity will double, double in the next six month alone.And most of that is business to business transactions.We see the total market for Internet commerce hitting 200 billion dollars by the end of the century.And that is a conservative forecast.It is not just about buying and selling.About a year ago IBM coined the term E-business to describe all the ways that people will derive value from the Net.Transactions among employees within the business to prove how products are developed, how ideas are shared, how teams are formed, how work gets done.Transaction between a business and its suppliers, its distributors, its retailers, to increase cycle times, speed and efficiency.And the very important transactions and interactions between governments and citizens, educators and students, health-care providers and patients.It is a very exciting stuff.And the greatest changes and challenges are not in the technology.In fact, connecting to the Net is relatively easy.The big challenges are in the fundamental transformation of the way things get done in the world.That is because networks are great levelers.They dissolve barriers to entry the neutralized traditional assets like physical stores and branches.Networks dissolved the boundaries within and between companies, countries, continents and time-zones.It is not hyperbole to say that the network is quickly emerging as the largest, most dynamic, restless, sleepless marketplace of good services and ideas the world has ever seen.And naturally this comes with very profound applications.For one thing, they are all ready, time-honored processes that govern the way things work in the world, the way we buy and sell, the way we distribute things, the way we teach, and the way we interact with each other.That I will tell you that nearly every one of those conventions is being challenged by the network world.Let me cite a few examples drawing on what we and IBM have learned from helping thousands of customers in the last year come to the Net.New competitors can come out of nowhere, overnight, and not just from within your industry.One of the most contentious, fast moving, and bare knocle battles waged today is, believe it or not, in book selling.The leader in this online race is “amazon.com”.If you have not heard of them, do not feel bad.Three years ago, nobody heard of them.They did not exist.Their customers do not aware they exist physically, and they do not care.Amazon.com exists only in cyberspace.But with 2.5 million titles, it is nearly 15 times larger than the world's largest physical bookstore.It is open 24 hours a day, every day of the year.And they recently serve their one million of customer in Japan, one of 160 countries in which amazon ships books.Until recently they had the market to themselves.Now the traditional book sellers like Barns&Noble in the US, and medium firms like Burtlesman in Europe are jumping in.Can virtual companies like “amazon.com” battle against and beat these entrenched brands? Stay tuned.We do not know yet.The same kind of transformation is happening in retail banking, in car sales, in music entertainment, in insurance.And it is not just limited to the commercial world.Public sector institutions are being buffeted by the same powerful forces.In higher education, there is a university in Canada, Atherbasca University, that delivers 100 percent of its courses by what is called distant learning.No students on campus, no campus.All instruction is delivered online.And they have captured nearly 30 percent of all MBA students in Canada.Governments are using networks to transform every thing, from the way they buy goods and services, to the delivery of services to citizens.Singapore is putting 10 thousand suppliers online, reducing costs and increasing efficiency, and by the way is compared with the advantage in Asia.When the government of Verlancia in southern France, starts wiring entire villages, allowing citizens to conduct online transactions with local businesses, schedule a doctor's appointment, get information from their kids' school--you know something interesting is starting to happen.And believe me in America, when in certain stage you can register your car on the Internet and not have to go a way in line.I can assure you something important is happening.Trust me on this one.Now all of us must realize this is not a spectator's sport, when I was just sitting here watching “amazon.com”.Every institution and every entity must grab with this issue at the highest level as management.S&Base, Cacherdeck is one of the largest department stores in Europe.But they are making their first foreway into online sales.That is not an easy decision for an enterprise with huge investments and retail space, not to mention their economic model, their coop culture, rooted and traditional retail sales.Who made the decision for Cacherdeck to jump into online sales? I can assure you it was not their Web master.Increasingly, CEOs of companies, university presidents, government officials are stepping up to these issues.They are testing pilot sites, they are setting strategy, and they are answering questions like “How will this network world affect my organization?” “How are we threatened?” but more importantly, “How can I leverage this new medium for competitive advantage?” The toughest, most jocular decisions that need to be made are which browser or which server their core management and policy issues.This only escalates all these issues, only escalates as the network world marches on.We have already talked about the first milestone that is the Net connecting, say a billion people to perhaps a million E-businesses.The next milestone is what we and IBM call pervasive computing.Fifty years ago where did you find electric motors? Big factories, power plants, and they were big and expensive.Today you might find a hundred electric motors in the typical homecars, appliances, tools, doorknobs, clothes.Most significantly all of these tiny intelligent devices will be interwoven in the fabric of the computing and communications network.And what will this mean for consumers and enterprises? A quick example, think about driving down the autobahn.Your intelligent car develops an engine problem.But instead of flashing you a warning light, it sends a message directly to the manufacturer over a wireless connection to the Net.The manufacturer systems diagnose the problem, and they transmit a fix back to the electronic complex in your car.In fact, that electronic fix is transmitted to all models of that car anywhere in the world without having to notify the owners.And that is good for the driver, so also better for the car maker.Instant performance information captured and sent immediately into product development and manufacturing, continuous feedback loop, continuous improvement, resulting in better cars, good for the consumer and competitive advantage for the businesses to get there first.How can any company with tens of millions of vending machines scattered all around the world know at any point what is selling, what is not selling, how much of an item is left, or when to send a rood driver to empty the coin box.A little chip in each machine could check and report on all of those items with ease, and even better.Why could not that machine include a thermal stack that told it, it is freezing today, drop the price by 10 pfennigs.It is 35 degrees, raise the price by 15 pfennigs.Soon we will see this hyper standard network world made up of a trillion interconnected intersecting devices.And this will intersect with the data capability I spoke of early--pervasive computing meets deep computing.Companies and institutions will amass more data, more information than ever in history.And for the first time they will be able to do something productive with the turn raw data into knowledge and move that knowledge to the right people instantaneously.Personally I believe that future leadership companies and by the way future leadership institutions of all kinds will be those who know how to compete and win on the basis of knowledge--learning, adapting and improving the vital asset we know as information.Now I have covered a lot of ground here very quickly.I want to show you a brief video that illustrates some of these ideas that I have talked about.(VIDEO)
The brilliant computer technology, which has enabled this biggest explosion in the last 20 years, is that they are getting increasingly more powerful without getting more expensive.Make a chip run over one giga-hertz was someone like breaking the sound barrier on land.We really found that we can work at it.There is anything that you cannot build.And we have solved the problem and now we are continue to increase frequency for the next 10 years.Our ability to manipulate information and our ability to do video and multimedia are critically dependent upon having larger and larger storage devices.Recently we demonstrate a laboratory world recogdencive 11.6 billion bits per square inch for a hard disk drive.We want to be having a continued advance at storage capabilities when the physical limitations prevent us from extending current devices.That is why we are investigating using hologramed information, even manipulating individual items.In the information age, up till now, the oriental culture has a disadvantage, because of the difficulty in input.To do Chinese speech recognition, we need to improve recognition algorithm.Also we need fast computers.Now both conditions are there.I am painfully slow in typing.It takes so long to master the skill of typing Chinese.“我带来我公司的最新产品。请在明天上午召开联席会议讨论销售合作的问题。”
Only in the last few years have computers become powerful enough to do on-the-fly translation of languages.You will be able to go into the World Wide Web, go to any site, anywhere in the world, and whatever language that particular site is written, and quickly browse and understand that information in your native language.It is about the same amount of time it takes for you to receive the Web page over the network.We intersect in the server.We do the translation, and we present the new page back to you.International travel is growing at between 7 and 10 percent a year.And we see the pressure is on world control authorities, and the hastle on passengers continue into grow.We try to create fast...so it appears very much like an Automatic Teller Machine.A traveler we take a credit card and put it in the kiosk, place their hand on the biometric reader, and those two things in a real time are compared with information that has been stored in a database when they enroll, and then this is what is in it.How can I make computers more fun to use, easier to use, more like interacting with humans? We have given the computer the ability to see us, and sense where we are.And now we are trying to give it ability to understand what we are trying to say.In fact, all I need to do is to talk to it and move my hands.So for example, now I am moving this object around, just by moving my hand.“Leave it there.” The computer hears me and does what I ask.Some of the really hard problems are their power, a lot of computing power.That is the deep computing.What we have learned in Deep Blue is that not only you need fast computers, deep computing power, but you need to capture human experts knowledge, and express that in terms of algorithms.The more power you have, the smarter things you can do.And that is what is starting to happen now because the computers have enough processing power to solve some really interesting and difficult problems.With such a computer you can actually simulate the physical process of what happened in the physical world.I think we will tell our kids 10 years...now, "You may not believe it, but computers used to be things that set of big boxes on top of desks.And look at...As things get smaller, faster and smarter, we are about to forget about the computer inside devices, focus on the function of the device.Computers will be everywhere, performing everyday tasks for people.We will not think them as computers any more.(END OF VIDEO)
Now I started out this evening saying I hope to represent the voice of the customer.And as we project the benefit of this network world, the hundreds of millions of people may be even a billion.It is clear that the Information Technology industry has a lot of work to do.We have got to make this technology easier to use, and more natural.And that video you saw some of the things we and others are doing and working on ease of use today.We have got our rich agreement on standards, standards for communications, for security, for software development.And I am asking you as customers to keep the heat on this industry.The demand that we deliver open standards, everybody's software running on everybody's hardware over everybody's network.There is another set of issues that extend beyond the Information Technology industryit has to be global, agreements to these critical policy issues are going to take this issue of cooperation to a new level.We are going to have to have a global public policy.First, people must have inexpensive access to the telecommunication services they need to participate, meaning governments have to encourage competition, and end monopoly structures.And the news from Europe is very encouraging recently here.It is also clear that the discriminatory tax policies can stifle this very nascent, early forming economic engine.We have to insure that electronic business is taxed the same way as the physical business world, no more, no less.And the OECD has taken on this work, and we hardly support their efforts.We also support the move to keep the Internet a tariff free zone.This will be a big fight, but that is one we have to win together.Next, security.The domains of customers for strong encryption, and governments legitimate concerns about their ability to provide public safety and enforced laws do not have to be neutrally exclusive.IBM is working with the US government, with the European Union, and governments around the world to support an unrestricted market for encryption products that can inter-operate globally.We are not anywhere near for along on this we need to be, but I am confident we will get there.We have to get there, there is too much of stake.Finally, privacy.How can we continue to strike the balance, the right balance between respect for the individuals privacy and the benefits on the other hand of information flow in a connected world.The solution here must start with the private sector, not government.And a reinformation of a few proven principles by all businesses that consumers get fare notice about information that is used, that is theirs, and the opportunity control, and confirm its use.And a number of companies are moving in this direction.IBM has recently adopted a global privacy policy for managing information online and it is posted on all of our web sites around the world.With global agreement and cooperation and understanding, the Information Technology industry, government and our customers will go forward.I believe and insure that this global market place grows boldly, safely, and delivers on a real promise.That is important to every one.As we look ahead to the next millennium, I do not think there is any question any longer about the profound power of this technology.In an incredibly short span of time, it is developed to the point where it can, we can talk about it in the same context as any of the other great technologies had transformed our world.We are watching, we are participating in the emergence of something much bigger than the new computing model, much different than just a new channel for human interaction.Information Technology, and specifically network technology, represents the most powerful tool we have ever had for change.It is a new engine for economic growth, a new medium that will redefine the nature of relationships among governments and institutions and businesses of all kinds, and the people they serve now, and they might serve tomorrow.This powerful tool is here for all of us today.Each of us will have to decide how will it exploited, and how soon.But in any case, the nations, the government agencies, the public sector and commercial institutions, that do theirs most effectively will create enormous competitive advantage into the 21 century.Thank you very much, and I hope you have the most successful CeBIT ever.