From January 17 to 18, 2026, the 2026 China Entrepreneur Summit hosted by Beiqing Institute of Economics and Management was grandly held at Beijing Guoce Conference Center. With the theme of "Unbound·Symbiosis," this forum gathered many Chinese entrepreneurs and representatives from academia and industry to conduct in-depth exchanges on business changes under the new technology wave and jointly explore new paths for enterprise development in 2026. Guo Wei, Chairman of Digital China, was invited to attend this forum and delivered a keynote speech titled "AI for Process: Process Reshaping in Cognitive Revolution Era," systematically expounding the core logic of enterprise productivity reconstruction in the AI era.
Guo Wei pointed out that since the advent of ChatGPT, human society as a whole has fallen into an unprecedented "state of anxiety." The speed of technological change surpasses any previous era. Looking back at history, never has a technological product become popular so quickly: In 1922, radio was first used in commercial broadcasting scenarios, and it took decades for its user scale to reach 100 million; ChatGPT took about 2 months to achieve the goal of 100 million users; while DeepSeek took only 7 days.
So, what does the essence of AI triggering this series of high-speed social changes mean? How will it reshape value creation methods for individuals, enterprises, and even the entire society? Guo Wei raised thought-provoking questions at the event site.
Subsequently, he cited economist Schumpeter's view pointing out that the fundamental driving force of social economic growth comes from innovation. Research by 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics Joel Mokyr using historical methods further verified this judgment from a macro level. But at the micro level, Guo Wei believes that what truly determines innovation efficiency are three key elements: technical paradigm, business model, and management method, and the carrier where these three intersect is Process.
Guo Wei pointed out that all technical paradigms, business models, and management methods will ultimately condense into enterprise processes. He vividly compared this mechanism to a "wind turbine": three elements are like "blades" of a wind generator, while process constitutes the "hub" connecting blades, together constituting the enterprise's "innovation wind turbine," generating inexhaustible kinetic energy driving enterprise development.
Guo Wei believes that the process of process reengineering is essentially the process where innovation happens. When the AI era arrives, technical paradigm itself undergoes fundamental subversion, and existing business processes of enterprises must also be reconstructed accordingly. The core issue evolves into how humans and Agents, and Agents and Agents, should coordinate organically and efficiently. This is also the reason and key core for Guo Wei proposing the "AI for Process" concept. He believes that the true value of AI in enterprises lies not in single-point tool application but in achieving collaborative symbiosis between humans and AI. At the event site, Guo Wei also illustrated how AI reshapes enterprise productivity with multiple practical cases.
In the medical diagnosis field, Digital China cooperated with well-known domestic hospitals to jointly develop a pancreatic cancer postoperative complication diagnosis large model with clinical doctors. through analysis of full-process medical data by intelligent agents, auxiliary diagnosis accuracy reached 94%, enabling ordinary doctors to have diagnostic capabilities close to chief physicians. In the drug R&D field, Digital China assisted domestic innovative drug companies in introducing AI into target discovery processes. Through collaborative work of three types of intelligent agents—competitive landscape analysis, literature analysis, and patent analysis—traditional human-dominated R&D modes were transformed into new processes of "human and AI" collaboration, significantly improving R&D efficiency.
Guo Wei emphasized that the arrival of AI is a systematic transcendence of traditional digital technology. Digitalization mainly solves "management productivity" problems, sorting out processes and improving efficiency; while AI is further moving towards "operational productivity," becoming an indispensable part of business processes. Acceleration of innovation is irreversible.
So, will AI replace humans? Guo Wei frankly stated that the answer is no. He believes that AI can complete a large amount of complex calculation and analysis work, but it lacks the "experiential nature" unique to humans. Like cooking "home-style dishes," often it is not just "following steps" according to recipes, but a judgment derived from experience and feeling. These "feelings" are currently irreplaceable by AI. Therefore, at levels involving meaning and value such as value judgment, rule selection, and direction decision-making, humans must still lead. The significance of AI lies more in replacing tedious and repetitive work, enabling humans to devote more time to creative activities. And creation itself is a process requiring patience and long-term accumulation.
Guo Wei concluded that compared with previous technological revolutions, the biggest difference in this round of AI change lies in opening a cognitive level division of labor, forming a brand new human-machine collaboration mode. It creates dual value of efficiency and meaning simultaneously. For today's entrepreneurs, everything is still not too late. As long as conforming to trends and diving in, there are opportunities to become leaders in the AI era.
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