"In an article last week, Gu Jianyi, a researcher at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, said China could consider developing a new industrial ecosystem inspired by successful US firms such as SpaceX, Palantir and Anduril. Such an ecosystem would be defined by Silicon Valley-style innovation, software-centric design, agile development and civil-military integration."
"Gu, who is also an adviser to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Academy of Military Science, said some Chinese companies such as Huawei, DeepSeek and Tencent already had core technologies and would just need to be integrated into the defence industrial base. "If the technological reserves and innovation potential of these enterprises in the civilian sector can be fully unleashed, and their technologies and products systematically channelled into weapons and equipment development and production, it will inject revolutionary momentum into China's equipment development," Gu said in the article published on the WeChat account of Qiyuan Defence Technology, a Chongqing-based drone producer and security equipment maker."
China can adopt a Silicon Valley-style industrial ecosystem to accelerate military modernization by channeling civilian innovations into defense. The ecosystem would emphasize software-centric design, agile development and civil-military integration modeled on firms like SpaceX, Palantir and Anduril. Existing Chinese companies such as Huawei, DeepSeek and Tencent already hold relevant core technologies that could be integrated into the defence industrial base. Fully leveraging their technological reserves and innovation potential and systematically channeling products into weapons and equipment development would inject revolutionary momentum into equipment modernization. Persistent institutional barriers must be removed to enable private and commercial enterprises to contribute to national defence.
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