SouthCN news (Reporter: Bingqing Chen, correspondent: Shaoxia Lin). On July 4, a strategic cooperation press conference between Yiju Lezhu (H@C) and the School of Computer Science and Engineering of South China University of Technology was held in Guangzhou. Strategic cooperation agreement of Construction + Internet have been set up between two sides in order to build a construction information technology research center via combining SCUT’s academic advantages in computer science and H@C’s strengths in construction industry. They try to build a completely new service platform of Construction + Internet. This conference served as a prelude to school-enterprise strategic cooperation and an example that universities serve local economy.
Opening ceremony
The CS school of SCUT and H@C are signing the cooperation agreement
Influenced by the Internet, China is experiencing an unprecedented industrial change. During the past 20 years, the development of the Internet was concentrated in consumption and personal area. In the next 10 years, it will step into industrial age. Along with the transformation of virtualization process from to C to to B, the Internet of Industry which takes value economy as main profit mode is gradually rising. In China, users from construction industry are among early users of computers and are also among the early users of the Internet. However, they only use the Internet as a tool instead of using it in enterprise information management or big data applications, which results in the low penetration of the Internet in construction industry.
In recent years, many construction companies, especially the small and medium-sized companies without enough core competitiveness, are facing some challenges. These companies used to survive by affiliating qualifications, so they are at a loss in the changing market and are seeking a way to upgrade. If an industry stays in closed social circles, keeps its data and information independent, and does not keep up with the era’s requirements, the industry will possibly be subverted by the Internet.
According to reporters on the spot, H@C started transformation in 2014 and use the Internet information technology to solve traditional problems in home maintenance, transaction of building materials and resource integration of construction. The company’s businesses are still in construction industry. Among these businesses, E home maintenance and Yiju Lezhu are the first service products appeared to the market. Until now, they have provided over one thousand families with convenient, efficient, guaranteed and high quality services such as maintenance, refurbishment, and decoration. H@C provides an economy sharing platform with innovative employment mode for many industrial workers. Besides, its service area covers Pearl River Delta and it explores information management, process standards and behavior standards for the construction industry. From today onwards, H@C cooperates with South China University of Technology to build construction industry information technology research center. They start friendly and close industry-university-institute cooperation in e-commerce, including research and development of big data analysis system for construction industry and personnel training for Construction + Internet talents. Their cooperation will promote the development of university students' entrepreneurship and innovation ability and build the largest home maintenance O2O service platform together, which will lead to great social and economic significance for the development of construction industry and the cooperation between university and enterprise.
South China University of Technology is one the most famous university first engaged in computer research and teaching in China. It was established in 1958 and at the present it has a first-class computer science and technology doctor degree discipline, post-doctoral research center and 4 Guangdong provincial key laboratories and engineering centers such as the computer network laboratory. Its computer science and technology is a first-class key discipline in Guangdong Province. SCUT cultivated a large number of industry leading talents such as Zhidong Zhang which is the former CTO of Tencent. Today it has become one of important bases in China for computer technology research and talent development and is known as a cradle of scientists, enterprisers and IT industry engineers in Southern China.
H@C is the first Construction + Internet company in China that relies mainly on construction industry. Its intensive cultivation rooted in the traditional construction industry helps it accumulate a wealth of industry contacts resources and business management experience. With innovative development concept and market development ability, it is committed to building professional and authoritative home maintenance O2O service platform in South China and even the whole country.
With the principles of complementarities and friendly cooperation, the two partners are devoted to exploration and research of high level integration of the Internet and traditional industry in order to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and progress of technology. The cooperation not only helps to promote the transformation of university’s scientific research, but also helps to improve company’s core competiveness via deep cooperation between university and enterprise. It also plays a leading role for the cooperation between industry, academia and research, so it effectively promotes the development of enterprise and local economic. They try to explore a three-win way for government, enterprise and university through the cooperation between university and enterprise.
