In 2021, the World Internet Conference has reached its eighth year. When the sound of oars swaying and ideas collide, and small bridges and corridors are connected to all things, Wuzhen provides the best stage for experiencing the cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements of the global Internet.
From “interconnection, sharing and co-governance” to “towards a new era of digital civilization,” the international community has widely recognized that the importance and urgency of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace has become increasingly prominent.
On the morning of September 26, the 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will officially open. This conference will be held in a combination of “online + offline”, focusing on new trends and hotspots in the development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, and facing the world directly The new challenges and new issues of cyberspace development and governance have broadly condensed the consensus of the international community. In the process of human society’s progress towards digital civilization, digital innovations can benefit the people of all countries and create a better tomorrow for mankind.
Focus on the frontiers and respond to real hotspots
“Joining hands to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace” is the consistent theme of the World Internet Conference.
In 2015, President Xi Jinping put forward the concept of “community with a shared future in cyberspace” for the first time at the Second World Internet Conference, expounding the “Four Principles” and “Five Propositions” of Internet development and governance, which attracted wide attention from the international community. Over the past few years, Chinese and foreign parties have seized the opportunity of the digital, networked, and intelligent era, and formed a number of international cooperation projects with a wide range of influence and strong timeliness.
On September 25th, at the “Hand in Hand to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace” for the first time at the conference, a group of ideas have a high degree of conformity, great international influence, prominent social value, and rich presentation forms. Best practice cases stand out. These cases vividly described the five major practical results of network infrastructure construction, online cultural exchanges, network economic innovation and development, network security assurance, and international governance of cyberspace, providing a viable path and strong driving force for all parties to jointly build a community with a shared future in cyberspace.
At the same time, from September 26 to September 28, the conference set up a total of 20 sub-forums, bringing nearly 2,000 representatives from governments, international organizations, industry institutions, Chinese and foreign Internet companies, university think tanks, and scientific research institutions online and offline. We will conduct joint exchanges around the focus and hot spots of global cyberspace, face the new challenges and problems of global cyberspace development and governance, and talk about the new future of the era of digital civilization.
The “Daily Economic News” reporter learned that in recent years, digital technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing have flourished, and new technologies have brought new formats and new growth. However, the existence of privacy leaks, network fraud, traffic fraud and other phenomena has also become an obstacle to the healthy circulation of data elements, bringing challenges to the governance of the Internet. Therefore, it is of great urgency to build a secure data collaboration technology environment.
It is reported that the conference will also focus on 5G, artificial intelligence, open source ecology, and the next generation on the basis of retaining the entrepreneurial summit forum, the “Belt and Road” Internet International Cooperation Forum, the Internet International High-end Think Tank Forum, and the Cyberspace International Rules Forum. New trends and hotspots in network technologies such as the Internet, data and algorithms, and fully respond to the domestic and foreign parties’ concerns regarding data governance, network rule of law, corporate social responsibility on the Internet, Internet charity and digital poverty reduction, global anti-epidemic and international communication, etc. General concerns.
Settled for 7 years to feed back the local economy
In Wuzhen, the World Internet Conference showed the light of the era of the development of digital civilization.
The reporter of “Daily Economic News” found that this conference attracted more than 300 companies, including Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, China Electronics Technology, and Kaspersky Lab, around multiple scenarios such as life experience, smart production, and industry ecology. Leading enterprises in the industry made their debut, focusing on 25 smart projects including 5G full-domain autonomous driving, smart care systems, and digital pastures. The Internet Science and Technology Achievement Exhibition Hall will synchronize online and offline, displaying innovative applications such as blockchain intelligent inspection, nanolithography and imaging devices, and integrated deep-sea robots.
In Wuzhen, the World Internet Conference connects the light of the industry for the development of the digital economy.
The digital economy has become the fastest growing and most imaginative industry in Tongxiang. According to Qi Li, secretary of the Tongxiang Municipal Party Committee of Zhejiang Province, according to statistics, Tongxiang’s digital economy enterprises have increased from more than 300 in 2014 to 2,443 in 2020, and the total core output value of the digital economy has also increased from 4 billion yuan in 2014 to 16.5 billion in 2020. .
Behind the triumphant data is the rapid progress of the industry. As the venue of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, has achieved the entire industrial chain coverage from the software and hardware of intelligent driving to the production of complete vehicles, and the intelligent automobile industry cluster has taken the lead in going out of the circle. During this year’s World Internet Conference, the “Wuzhen Light” supercomputing center will be officially completed, and the construction of the “Wuzhen Hash Power Town”, the first intelligent computing industry base in Zhejiang Province, has also officially started.
Participants said that in addition to participating in cutting-edge issues, they can also learn about industry trends through the newly released Blue Book of “China Internet Development Report 2021” and “World Internet Development Report 2021″. In addition, the world’s “Expo”, “Through Wuzhen” Global Internet Competition and other events have further demonstrated the new level and new height of the global Internet frontier technology. Only by witnessing the latest technology products in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, network security, etc. Have a deeper understanding and interpretation of new technologies, new models, and new business formats.
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