Chapter 220 On October 26, seize the lifeline of technology research and development

In fact, Baidu has been investing heavily in technology.In the early days, we had an R&D center in Silicon Valley.Later, Baidu focused on Chinese search.With the strengthening of the company's strength and the expansion of the Chinese search market, Baidu also feels that we must attract the best talents from all over the world in order to make Internet technology bigger and stronger together.That's why we chose to set up such a research and development center in Shanghai at this time.In the future, we also plan to set up a research and development center in Tokyo, Japan. As early as the beginning of Baidu's founding, Li Yanhong set up a research and development center in Silicon Valley to absorb the world's top technical talents, but he gave up due to strategic reasons.Until September 2007, Baidu Chief Technology Officer William Zhang announced at the Baidu World Conference that Baidu will build R&D centers in Shanghai and Tokyo to establish an international technology platform.A month later, Baidu announced the relevant positions of the Shanghai R&D center for the first time.The technical core of the Shanghai R&D Center was selected from Baidu's technical backbone at that time as leaders, and the rest were boldly recruited by fresh graduates.Some analysts pointed out that Baidu's attention and investment in recruiting talents, as well as the careful deployment of R&D centers, will play a decisive role in Baidu's recruitment of top technical experts around the world.

With the listing of the R&D center, the "Aladdin Project" was launched.A year later, at the Baidu Technology Innovation Conference, Robin Li deciphered the "box computing" that was first released. The advancement of core technology is another key to the success of competition.