To make the GIS industry bigger and stronger, we must break through rigid thinking. For GIS companies in traditional industries, practitioners are all from technical backgrounds, and a person's background often determines their habits and thinking patterns. So how to break through traditional thinking has become an urgent problem for GIS enterprises to solve. In GIS enterprises, technology is often the king, and operations are not given the attention they deserve, with technology dominating the world. So in order to break free from the constraints of fixed thinking in the development process, the entire industry, including Zhongdi Digital itself, is constantly breaking through and self transforming.

Recently, the GIS Industry Development High end Dialogue hosted by the Geographic Information System Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance was held in Beijing, and Liu Yong, President of Zhongdi Digital Group, expressed the above views at the meeting. She said that she was very concerned about the development direction of GIS industry in the context of the continuous development of mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing and other technologies. Industrial opportunities hold great vitality in the Internet era, and Internet thinking can reconstruct GIS enterprises.

Integrate with the Internet to expand more space

Today, the Internet's march into traditional industries has profoundly changed the business model, user thinking and industry boundaries in the entire market system. The integration and cross-border of various industries has become an irresistible trend. When we also regard Alibaba and Tencent as Internet companies, Yu'e Bao, WeChat and Fortune Connect have already labeled them as financial companies.

As for this trend, President Liu Yong mentioned in his communication with the media that the operation mode and thinking mode of the Internet can provide reference for GIS enterprises to seek breakthroughs. At the same time, she also welcomed all resources to join the geographic information industry, including the Internet. The industry needs to introduce some experience and ideas of the Internet, as well as some business operation models of enterprises, including some capital. Through mutual penetration, GIS enterprises can be restructured.

She said that the strength of the Internet lies in its control of development ideas and its sensitivity, while the strength of GIS enterprises is technology. If GIS enterprises and the Internet, including mobile Internet, complement each other's advantages, it is bound to excavate greater value of the GIS industry. The geographic information industry needs both people with Internet thinking and people who understand the industry. The potential of an industry depends on its close integration with the Internet. Internet thinking can reconstruct the future of GIS enterprises, bring disruptive innovation to GIS enterprises, and expand the space of GIS industry.

Relying on alliances to meet challenges

The next decade is another golden decade for the Internet. Premier Li Keqiang proposed in this year's government work report to "strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in technological innovation, encourage enterprises to establish research and development institutions, and lead the creation of industry university research collaborative innovation alliances", so as to promote the adjustment and optimization of the national economic structure and industrial development through innovation.

Liu Yong said frankly that she has a strong sense of urgency for the future development of GIS industry. Under the trend of mobile Internet, where will GIS enterprises go. Because the geographic information industry circle is relatively small and scattered, the strength of individual enterprises is generally weak, and they appear weak in front of Internet giants. However, this industry is a strategic sunrise industry, and capital and the Internet have a keen sense of smell of this business opportunity. Although there is great potential for development, the value recognition of GIS is still in its early stages. In fact, mobile Internet and ubiquitous geographic information location services will be the next economic growth hotspot and gold mine.

The geographic information industry seems to be welcoming a wave of foreign wolves, such as Alibaba's wholly-owned acquisition of Gaode and Tencent's entry into the map industry. Therefore, the intervention of external elements objectively drives us to unconsciously "dance with wolves". Liu Yong, who has been struggling in the geographic information industry for more than 20 years, said that she has devoted her entire life to this industry. She wants to say that quitting is not easy because giving up means escaping, and persistence is also a form of success.

Whether facing the spring tide of the Internet or the past ebb tide of the industry, there are always groups of people in the geographic information industry sticking to it. Liu Yong hopes that under the impact of the Internet wave, the strategic alliance of technological innovation in the GIS industry can carry the heavy task of industrial development, actively promote the development of the geographic information industry, and develop together. So in the spring of the Year of the Horse, the Alliance, together with the National Geographic Information System Engineering Technology Research Center, the Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information, the China Geographic Information Industry Association and other industry organizations, held a high-end dialogue on the development of the GIS industry to jointly discuss the path of industrial development.

She hopes to turn the industry alliance into a platform for communication, gathering the wisdom of everyone, exploring how industries can play new roles in economic transformation, how to shoulder the heavy responsibilities entrusted by the country, and how to serve the public and the government through technology. At the same time, we also hope that the alliance can communicate with alliances outside the industry and learn from each other to improve. Members of the Alliance should work together scientifically to solve some key technologies, participate in market competition, meet the challenges of Internet giants, and actively participate in the Internet tide.

In the Internet era, the power of communication is unlimited

Sitting on the ground and traveling 80000 miles a day, one knows millions of things in the world. In the era of the internet, a Weibo or WeChat can spread to every corner of the earth in seconds, and we can know what is happening in the world every second. This is the convenience brought by technology and the value of information dissemination.

Liu Yong, who is well versed in the value of communication, also calls on the media to pay more attention to and report on all aspects of the development of the geographic information industry. Through the power of communication, it can promote the sustainable and healthy development of the industry, achieve interaction between the media and the industry, and give attention to public opinion guidance. She believes that the power and value of the media are infinite, and that more people need to understand and pay attention to this industry in order to have more forces to promote its development join in.

I think we can no longer run on our original development ideas, but should 'take a flight' and achieve a qualitative leap forward. Whether from internal reforms or relying on media power, we should take big strides forward, "Liu Yong said.

She believes that the integration of GIS industry and the Internet can open up more value space, but it still needs to popularize GIS knowledge as the basis, and the popularization target is the public. So, she hopes to leverage the power of the media to interpret GIS applications through easy to understand language, so that the public can have a better understanding of GIS and appreciate how bright the prospects for its development are.

The dissemination power of the media is infinite. It is undoubtedly easier to achieve popularization by disseminating GIS industry and GIS knowledge through the media, allowing people to see the development space of this industry, involving those with ideals, and forming a cooperation with GIS or industry technology.

Only by breaking through towards the popularization of GIS can the industry achieve sublimation and leap forward, and people will naturally participate once they understand it. Only on that day will our efforts in the field of geographic information be rewarded with the most substantial rewards. ”

With the help of the Internet and media platform, the development of the industry also needs the power of communication. In the process of restructuring GIS enterprises, one kind of power will be invisible and huge, that is, Internet thinking.