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WSJ Converge 2017 Final: China Frontier Tech Trends
1. China Frontier Tech Trends
2017 WSJ Converge
Presentation by:
Jenny Lee
Managing Partner, GGV Capital
2. Strong support from Chinese government will help this sector flourish
Source: China Gov’t 13th 5 year plan, 2017 China Gov’t work report, GGV research
13th 5 Year Plan Puts Internet, AI, Big data as Priorities
China sets aggressive targets to become an innovation
driven country by 2020
18 15
2015 2020
$3.1T $4.8T
15% 20%
48 60
Country innovation ranks
High tech Co. revenue
Percentage of GDP by high tech Co.
R&D talents per 10k labor
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 2
3. Frontier Tech Trends in China
Smart
Transportation
Robotics
Innovation
Age of
Intelligence
Smart, Green &
Autonomous
Human Machine
Interaction
Human Machine
Integration
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 3
4. Environmental Pressure Natural Resource Constraints Consumer Upgrade
Source: China 13th 5-year plan, National Bureau of Statistics of China, GGV research
Chinese Government Highly Motivated
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 4
Greener, smarter transportation will elevate pressure
5. Total Government
Pledged Investment
$16 Billion
Policy Support 2020 Targets
Free License Plates
20-60K RMB
Subsidy/Vehicle
5M EV Car Lots
3.1K Charging Stations
500K Charging Piles
Source: www.gov.cn, GGV research
Chinese Ambitions for Smart Transportation
Notes: 2014-2020 pledged amount
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 5
6. Full EV
Hybrid
Total
(Units) YOY
263K
81K
344K
73%
30%
60%
(Units) YOY
Q1 2017
64K
14K
78K
67%
-32%
31%
2017 Chinese EV Market Statistics
Source: auto.sohu.com, www.chinaev.net, ResearchInChina: 2016-2020 China EV report, GGV research
Consumer
2016
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 6
New EV ownership exceeds 1 million units in 2016, expected to exceed 5 million units in 2020
8. NINEBOT
NEXTEV LETV FARADAY
NIU
Emerging EV Startups for Different Consumer Needs
Source: Company Website, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 8
CHEHEJIA
BIKE SHARING
Including the trending bike sharing wave hitting all China cities
9. Raised $5.5Bn for Frontier Tech
and Globalization
Established Apollo Project, an Open Source
Ecosystem on Self-Driving
AI + Self-driving R&D Set up Silicon Valley
AI Lab
Baidu WuZhen Fleet
Demo
Baidu L4 in Beijing
More Autonomous; Startups with Chinese Founders ..
Source: finance.sina.com, it.sohu.com GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 9
10. Chinese Robotics Market ($Bn)
Chinese Robotics Market Set to Grow
Source: www.robot-china.com, iResearch, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 10
11. Robotics R&D Investment by Revenue
IP per ¥100Mn revenue
Units of Local Brand Production
Sales of Consumer/Service Robots
2015 2020
0.95%
0.44
n/a
$1.2Bn
1.26%
0.70
100K
$4.3Bn
Chinese Targets for the Robotics Industry
Source: www.miit.gov.cn, China Smart Manufacturing Plan 2025, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 11
12. Source: IFR, China Robotics Industry Development Plan, Company Website, GGV research
Fast Growing Chinese Industrial Robots Market
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 12
Global stock of operational robots expected to increase from 1.6m units in 2015 to 2.6m by 2019
China expected to lead purchase of robots at 40%(160k units) of global supply in 2019 (from 27% in 2016)
• China domestic technology still lags behind foreign players and needs to catch up
• Policies look to support R&D and startups through investment. Set targets of 100k Made-In-China
industrial robots, 500k robots with six axis and sales to exceed 30Bn yuan by 2020
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
2014 2015 2016 2017 E 2018 E 2019 E
Thousands
Annual Supply of Industrial Robots (Units)
China Asia/Australia Europe USA
Average Robot Density in 2016
Unit per 10K employees
Global Average at 69
13. Industrial Production Warehousing/Logistics
Warehousing/ Picking
Sorting Systems
Source: IFR, China Robotics Industry Development Plan, Company Website, GGV research
Examples of Chinese Industrial Robots Manufacturers
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 13
E-DeodarSINSUN
15. Devices for the Home
Examples of Chinese Consumer Robots Startups
Source: Company Websites, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 15
16. Chinese government positions AI as the next priority for development
Next Priority for Chinese Development: AI+
Premier Li included AI in 2017 Government Work Report
• Build up AI ecosystem, industrial standard and public service
platform
• Support AI R&D and commercialization
• Build up IP and talent education system
Government released ‘16-’18 Internet and AI 3-year plan
NDRC initiated a National Deep Learning Lab, led by Baidu in 2017
Government plans to invest $15Bn to develop AI industry
Source: 2017 China Gov’t Work Plan, www.gov.cn, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 16
17. Computing
Infrastructure
Algorithm Data
AI Infrastructure, Talent, Data: China is Ready
Source: World Bank, CNNIC, US Office of Science and Technology Policy, GGV research
21%
15%
Note: China expected to generate 15% of global data
in 2017, growing to over 21% in 2020
GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 17
18. Chinese Startups in Computer Vision
Facial and Image Recognition API for Different Applications
Raised ~ $120M in 2017 Raised ~ $100M in 2017
Source: Company Websites, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 18
19. Chinese Startups in Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition Semantics Comprehension
Ticmirror, NLP enabled for cars
Ticwatch, NLP enabled for consumers
Input Voice
Assistant
Voice Touch Dictation
• 97% accuracy for Chinese language
• Supports 40+ dialects
• Realtime speech2text translation
Source: Company Websites, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 19
20. China is leveraging AI capabilities to build up next gen applications across industriesAI + Education
AI + Surveillance
AI + Medical
AI + Security
AI + Customer Service
AI + Finance
Emerging AI+ Chinese Startups Across Industry Verticals
Source: Company Websites, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 20
21. Government Support Rising Innovation
Towards a Technology and Innovation Driven China
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
China State Council 13th
five-year plan to
accelerate dev. of high
tech industry by 2020
BUDDING TALENT
By 2030, 27% of all 25-
34 years with a degree
will be in China, and
more overseas talents
will return
RISING INNOVATION
Since 2014, China has
outstripped both US and
Japan in number of global
patent filing at 34% market
share (wipo.int)
LARGE DATA SET
China is expected to have
772Mn internet users,
generating 15~20% of global
online data by 2020
HUGE MARKET
China has a population of
1.4Bn, 30Mn enterprises,
290Mn vehicles, and 1.1Bn
smart phones
Source: Company Websites, GGV research GGV CONFIDENTIAL Slide 21