In Wuzhen in the early morning, mist shrouded in mist, and a awning boat opened the water.

At the same time, it was the eighth year of the World Internet Conference.

Wuzhen, which has experienced precipitation, unwinds calmly and confidently, and conveys the latest pulse of Internet development to the world.

　　"At present, the world’s century-old changes and the century’s epidemic are intertwined and superimposed. The international community urgently needs to join hands to comply with the development trend of informatization, digitalization, networking, and intelligence, seize opportunities, and respond to challenges." On the morning of September 26, at At the opening ceremony of the 2021 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter.

In an instant, this important initiative spread from the Jiangnan water village to the whole world.

　　Wuzhen, China, is the world's Internet arena.

Nearly 2,000 guests from more than 80 countries and regions attended the grand event online and offline to exchange views on the theme of "Towards a New Era of Digital Civilization-Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace" and discuss global Internet governance. Share global Internet development experience.

　Light up history: Millennium town embraces digital civilization

　　The blue waves were gurgling, the boat song slowly, and the footsteps on the stone street made a rattling sound.

Years uses its magic to leave childhood memories for the ancient Wuzhen.

　　A promise has allowed Wuzhen, a small town in the south of the Yangtze River that was "slow in the past", to wake up from the shore of history and radiate new vigor and vitality.

In 2014, the World Internet Conference settled in Wuzhen. In the past 7 years, the light of the Internet has been changing rapidly into the daily lives of Wuzhen people.

　　Walking in Wuzhen, smart people's livelihood applications are within reach, and Internet frontier industry projects are blooming everywhere.

On Midnight Road, "Wuzhen Internet Hospital", "Smart Police Self-service Station", "Tencent Crowd Creation Space" and other places full of Internet atmosphere are next to each other.

　　"The Internet Conference has completely activated Wuzhen. Compared with a few years ago, the infrastructure, service level, and population quality have been greatly improved." Zhu Jianghua, a Jiangsu entrepreneur who came to Wuzhen for the second time, lamented the changes in Wuzhen.

　　As one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century, the Internet has created a brand-new development space for human society.

In the early days, the Internet was an "aristocratic facility" that only a few people could afford. Today, it has become ubiquitous.

The 48th "Statistical Report on Internet Development in China" shows that as of June this year, the number of Internet users in my country has reached 1.011 billion, and the Internet penetration rate has reached 71.6%.

　　The "14th Five-Year Plan" clearly states: "Meet the digital age, activate the potential of data elements, promote the construction of a network power, accelerate the construction of a digital economy, a digital society, and a digital government, and use digital transformation to drive changes in production methods, lifestyles and governance as a whole. "

　　Wuzhen is a witness and participant of digital civilization.

Undertaking the dividends of the World Internet Conference, Tongxiang's digital economy core industry enterprises have increased from 355 at the end of 2014 to 2,443 by the end of 2020; the output value of the core manufacturing industry of the digital economy above designated size has increased from 4.9 billion yuan to 16.41 billion yuan.

　Facing the future: The Unbounded Web is full of infinite possibilities

　　Self-driving buses, amphibious spherical robots, cute robot dogs... At the "Light of the Internet" expo, the cutting-edge "black technology" from all over the world competed with each other. People experienced the beauty of technology and enthusiastically talked about the infinite future. possible.

　　As the opening event of the summit, the "Internet Light" Expo attracted more than 300 Chinese and foreign companies to showcase the latest technology products in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, and network security.

　　Experiencing the future in Wuzhen is the charm of the Internet Conference.

At the world’s leading Internet scientific and technological achievements release event, 14 top Internet scientific and technological achievements were unveiled, reflecting the new level and new height of today’s global Internet frontier technology; the “Direct Wuzhen” global Internet competition attracts young Internet talents on the stage of innovation and entrepreneurship The competition was launched; the topics of the sub-forums focused more on the cutting-edge, and heated discussions around the new trends and hotspots of network technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and open source ecology.

　　"We must continue to break through the boundaries of various possibilities. This is exactly the innovation and leadership that this conference focuses on." Global Mobile Communications System Association CEO Hong Yaozhuang said at the opening ceremony of the conference.

　　Many new industries spawned by the development of the Internet are unprecedented in history.

We have reason to believe that this unbounded web will still make the future full of infinite possibilities.

　Looking at the world: building a community with a shared future in the cyberspace of mankind

　　In cyberspace, no one can be alone, and no one can stay aside.

For global sharing, naturally there must be global co-governance.

　　When the wave of information revolution has profoundly swept the global economic structure, interest structure, and security structure, and the transformation of the global Internet governance system has entered a critical period, the sovereignty, security, and development of all countries are facing new challenges, and the interests of the people of the world are blended and shared.

　　In the face of problems and challenges, President Xi Jinping stood at the strategic height of the future and destiny of mankind and put forward the initiative of "jointly building a community with a shared future in cyberspace", and contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the development and governance of cyberspace, a problem related to the future and destiny of mankind.

　　UAE's Minister of State for Digital Economy, Artificial Intelligence and Telecommuting Applications, Uman Bin Sultan Olemai, believes that under the special background of the current COVID-19 pandemic, this initiative is of great significance and regional solutions cannot cope with it. Global issues, geographical boundaries cannot stop certain challenges from spreading across the globe.

　　In recent years, China has carried out a series of positive actions in international cooperation in cyberspace, and has made an increasingly louder Chinese voice.

The National Museum of China initiated the global museum collections exhibition online relay event, which gathered 16 museums from five continents around the world to show the cultural charm of museums to the world through online special live broadcasts, deepen the exchanges and mutual learning of international museums during the epidemic, and demonstrate cultural ties between countries And the power of communication.

　　In the face of common challenges, we should stand up to the forefront instead of retreating to the lake. We should advance together instead of walking away separately.

This year’s conference held for the first time a case demonstration event of “Joining Hands to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace”, comprehensively showing the best practices from the construction of network infrastructure, online cultural exchanges, innovative development of the network economy, cyber security assurance, and cyberspace governance. Practical cases, vividly tell the story of international exchange and cooperation in cyberspace.

　　In his congratulatory letter to the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference in 2021, President Xi Jinping reiterated China’s position on building a community with a shared future for mankind: “China is willing to work with other countries in the world to shoulder the historical responsibility for the advancement of mankind, stimulate the vitality of the digital economy, and enhance the digital economy. Government efficiency, optimizing the digital social environment, building a digital cooperation pattern, building a digital security barrier, allowing digital civilization to benefit the people of all countries, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind." The Internet conference where all talented people are gathered has become the world listening to China’s voice and uniting the world. An important stage for consensus.

　　"Guangming Daily" (September 27, 2021 08 Edition)

　　Guangming Daily reporter Zhao Binyi