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Through collaborations with academic research institutions, we demonstrated a novel architecture for building quantum photonics exchange networks on-chip. This architecture allows programmable microwave parametric photon exchange between qubits separated by a large distance on the chip and greatly increases the connectivity of superconducting quantum computing systems. Large-scale, high-connectivity quantum processors embedded with the photonics network could natively bootstrap critical emerging NISQ applications in optimization, machine learning, and other applicable variational algorithms by avoiding cascading numerous imperfect nearest-neighbor qubit gates found in conventional low-connectivity superconducting systems.