Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 14. The Economic Reference News published an article written by reporter Yuan Xiaokang on May 14, "Economic Ingredients Industry Observation丨Quantum Technology: Blooming the "flower" of the technology from the "seed" of technology, and the implementation of the application still requires the "watering" of multiple parties". The article said that "Zuchong No. 3" broke the record of superiority of quantum computing in superconducting systems, many companies received large amounts of financing, and local governments issued quantum information industry development plans... Recently, the quantum information industry has received good news in technology, financing and other aspects.

　　Industry insiders pointed out that as one of the future industries, the quantum information industry has deep development potential. The current technical route faced by the quantum information industry has not yet converged, product applications need to be explored, and insufficient talent cultivation needs to be made through.

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　　Quantum information industry accelerates its "introduction"

　　Quantum information technology is a technology that uses novel quantum superposition, quantum entanglement, quantum tunneling and other novel quantum physics phenomena to achieve the perception, calculation and transmission effects of information. It mainly includes three major fields: quantum computing, quantum communication and quantum precision measurement.

　　Among them, quantum computing uses quantum characteristics to perform parallel computing, which can greatly improve computing efficiency on certain specific problems. For example, using quantum computing to screen valuable drug molecules can not only increase efficiency by thousands of times, but also improve the accuracy of screening, greatly accelerating drug research and development.

　　It is precisely based on this advantage that quantum information technology has attracted much attention. This year's government work report requires establishing a mechanism for future industrial investment growth and cultivating future industries such as biomanufacturing, quantum technology, embodied intelligence, and 6G.

　　Local governments are also increasing their support. Anhui requires the promotion of the integration and development of quantum computing with general computing, intelligent computing, supercomputing, etc., and proposes to build a quantum technology and industrial center. Wuhan requires focusing on digital industry chains such as quantum technology and promoting the coordinated efforts of "chain leader + chain owner + chain creation". Jinan proposes to speed up the industrialization of quantum technology, improve the first "particulate matter-optical quantum radar monitoring network" in the country, and continue to expand the "quantum+" application demonstration.

　　Under this, my country's quantum cutting-edge technology has made frequent breakthroughs. Not long ago, China successfully built the 105-bit superconducting quantum computing prototype "Zu Chongzhi No. 3", once again breaking the world record of the superiority of quantum computing in superconducting systems. In addition, recently, my country's scientific research team has successfully achieved the world's first "continuous variable" quantum entangled cluster state based on integrated optical quantum chips.

　　At the same time, the financing situation of quantum enterprises is gradually recovering. Guangdong Guoteng Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. has successfully completed its first round of financing recently, with a financing amount of nearly 100 million yuan. Beijing Bose Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. also announced the completion of a round A+ financing a few days ago. Jiuzhang (Jinan) Quantum Technology Co., Ltd. also completed the A+ round of financing, and the institutions participating in this round of financing include University of Science and Technology Guochuang, etc.

　　According to the "Research Report on the Development and Application of Quantum Information Technology (2024)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, quantum information technology has the potential to surpass classic information technology in some fields and is expected to become a new engine and accelerator for accelerating the exploration of cutting-edge science and technology, the evolution of information and communication technology and the development of the digital economy industry.

　　Three bottlenecks are to be broken

　　Industry insiders pointed out that the quantum information industry is currently in a critical period of development, and many development bottlenecks and challenges need to be paid attention to.

　　On the one hand, the current technical route of quantum information has not yet converged, and there is still a big gap in many directions from practicality.

　　"At present, most quantum technologies are still in the stage of just leaving the laboratory and conducting engineering and scenario exploration. The technology's scenario adaptability is not strong, and it is difficult to meet expectations in actual applications. It is necessary for each potential application industry to provide more scenario polishing." Jin Yirong, a researcher at the Beijing Institute of Quantum Information Science, said in an interview with reporters, "But this also brings about the contradiction of "leaving chickens and growing chickens with eggs". The immaturity of technology leads to insufficient applications, and the further development of technology requires larger-scale applications."

　　The report also pointed out that in terms of quantum computing, there is no trend of convergence in the competition for hardware technology routes. The level of key performance indicators of various types of prototypes is still very different from the requirements of large-scale general quantum computing.

　　On the other hand, the quantum information industry ecosystem is still immature, and the construction of the industrial chain needs to be promoted, which restricts the large-scale deployment of various tracks in the quantum field.

　　Taking quantum computing as an example, Zhou Lei, vice president of Guodun Quantum Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters that my country's quantum computing technology still needs to make great investment in key devices and industrial applications. "For example, my country has just broken the monopoly on key core devices such as dilution refrigerators. If it wants to be comparable to the international leading level, it must continue to tackle key issues."

　　Quantum precision measurement also needs to further improve the industrial ecology. "Quantum precision measurement technology requires relatively strict usage conditions, high manufacturing costs and maintenance costs, the industrial ecology needs to be developed, and market demand has not been fully stimulated." He Yu, chairman of Guoyi Quantum Technology (Hefei) Co., Ltd., pointed out.

　　Inadequate talent reserves are also one of the keys to the accelerated development of the quantum information industry. According to relevant statistics, only more than ten universities including the University of Science and Technology of China offer undergraduate majors in quantum information science. The McKinsey report also pointed out that by 2025, unless major interventions are taken, the filling rate of quantum computing positions will be less than 50%.

　　Not only is there a quantity shortage, but to achieve further implementation of quantum information technology, we also need to understand the composite talents in other fields, which puts higher requirements on talent cultivation.

　　Jin Yirong mentioned that quantum technology often involves the intersection of many disciplines and technologies, and the talent vacuum at the intersection is an obstacle to industrial development. "Taking quantum computing as an example, short-term applications require deep fusion of quantum computing and classical computing to work together, but talents who are proficient in classical computing and quantum computing are very scarce, which affects the progress of the fusion of quantum computing and classical computing."

　　"watering" industrial growth from multiple sources

　　Faced with the bottleneck of the development of the quantum information industry, the industry generally believes that the further cooperation between the government, universities and enterprises is the key to breaking through various bottlenecks in the track.

　　"Quantum computing is currently in a window period for diversifying technology routes. To ensure the continuous progress of China's quantum track technology, more policy support is needed, including setting up special support funds, building an inclusive innovation environment, lowering the entry threshold for many projects, and opening up ecological collaboration scenarios." said Wen Kai, founder and CEO of Bose Quantum.

　　In accelerating ecological construction and promoting application implementation, Zhou Lei believes that standardization is an important tool to promote the development of the quantum information industry on a large scale and meet social needs. "As a cutting-edge technology, the relevant standardization work requires the cooperation of personnel from multiple disciplines and fields. my country has achieved a breakthrough in national standards in all quantum fields, but building a complete standard system still requires long-term coordination between industry, academia, research and application."

　　In fact, enterprises are also breaking through technical bottlenecks through industry-university-research cooperation and accelerating the implementation of applications. Guodun Quantum and China Telecom Quantum Group jointly launched the "Quantum Secret Talk" and "Quantum Security OTN Special Line" to promote the integration of quantum communication and classical networks; Bose Quantum jointly developed the "Quantum + AI" algorithm, which increased efficiency by a thousand times in drug molecular simulation; Benyuan Quantum and multiple universities jointly launched quantum-related "micro-major majors" to cultivate compound talents with interdisciplinary thinking in a multidisciplinary cross-environment environment.

　　"As a strategic technology leading the future, its industrialization is a long-term process. The government needs to work with all sectors to form an overall policy framework and continue to promote it. Once all sectors form expectations of stable convergence, the quantum information industry will usher in rapid development in the future." Jin Yirong said.

[Editor in charge: Chen Tingyu]