In 2023, the Wuzhen Summit in world internet conference closed for ten years, writing a new network of digital worlds.

　　Wuzhen, Zhejiang Daily, November 10th On November 10th, the 2023 world internet conference Wuzhen Summit was closed. On the morning of the same day, the closing press conference released the results of the conference.

　　This year marks the tenth anniversary of Wuzhen Summit, which focuses on "Building an inclusive, inclusive and resilient digital world — — The theme of "Working Together to Build a Community of Cyberspace Destiny" was held online and offline, attracting more than 1,800 guests from 126 countries and regions around the world, and the number of countries reached a new high over the years. Participants focused on global development initiatives, digital green collaborative transformation, artificial intelligence and other issues in-depth exchanges, forming a broad consensus.

　　The "hard core" achievements were all unveiled.

　　As in previous years, the display of various achievements during the Wuzhen Summit is expected.

　　This year is the tenth year of the "Light of the Internet" Expo. More than 580 companies from 48 countries and regions participated in the exhibition online and offline, and the number of overseas exhibitors reached a record high. For the first time, the Expo set up a digital narrator in the development concept area, and launched special activities such as the Future Life Digital Experience Hall and the "Light Picking" commemoration, attracting many audiences to experience immersion.

　　The "Direct Access to Wuzhen" Global Internet Competition has been expanded to artificial intelligence, networked cars, digital ocean and sky, etc. A total of 1,005 projects from 23 countries at home and abroad participated in the competition, of which 81 projects competed fiercely in the final.

　　In addition, 13 "excellent cases of working together to build a community of cyberspace destiny" were released. From e-commerce to help Ethiopian farmers sell coffee to the world, to online classes to help young people in rural China start a new life for their families, 13 excellent cases show the positive response and profound practice of all parties to the idea of building a community of destiny in cyberspace from multiple perspectives.

　　During the Wuzhen Summit, important documents such as Cybersovereignty: Theory and Practice (Version 4.0), China Internet Development Report 2023 and World Internet Development Report 2023 were also released, which showed the important achievements of Internet development in the world and China in the past year.

　　It is worth mentioning that this year’s Wuzhen Summit achieved four "firsts" — —

　　Awarded the "Ten-Year Commemorative Honor" for the first time. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Wuzhen Summit, three honors, such as "sincere cooperator", "excellent organizer" and "special contributor", were awarded to relevant international and domestic organizations and leading figures, thanking them for their efforts in building international organizations for Wuzhen Summit and the conference;

　　The first World Internet Science and Technology Museum opened. The exhibition area of Wuzhen World Internet Science and Technology Museum is about 7,000 square meters, and six theme exhibition areas are set up to outline the development process and civilization of the Internet, present the latest technological achievements, and create a "Wuzhen Summit that never ends in 365 days";

　　The "Global Youth Leaders Program" was established for the first time. As a normalized brand activity established by international organizations, 18 outstanding young people in the global Internet field were selected for the first time, covering 14 countries and regions and covering 5 continents including Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America.

　　Awarded the "world internet conference Leading Science and Technology Award" for the first time. In order to build an innovative display platform for the world’s leading Internet scientific and technological achievements to a higher standard, this year, the conference will hold the world’s leading Internet scientific and technological achievements release activities for seven consecutive years, upgrade to the world internet conference Leading Science and Technology Award in an all-round way, and hold award ceremonies for 15 award-winning projects.

　　Organic integration of numbers and culture

　　For Zhejiang, this year is an extraordinary year.

　　In September, when the Supreme Leader visited Zhejiang, he stressed that it is necessary to "use the windows of Hangzhou Asian Games, Asian Paralympic Games and world internet conference to strengthen cultural exchanges and spread, and constantly enhance the cultural appeal of China and the influence of Chinese civilization." After the successful hosting of the Asian Games and the Asian Paralympic Games in Hangzhou, the Wuzhen Summit arrived as scheduled.

　　More than 90 countries and regions participated in this Wuzhen Summit offline, and friends from all countries reunited in Wuzhen after the epidemic and talked about the digital world together. In order to fully demonstrate the cultural charm, the conference was carefully designed in terms of activity setting, atmosphere creation, volunteer clothing, etc., and organically integrated into the provincial brand elements of "Poetry and Painting Jiangnan, Vibrant Zhejiang" to share Zhejiang’s historical and cultural heritage and social development momentum with guests.

　　At the same time, Wuzhen Summit will combine the real scene of Jiangnan water town with digital technology, hold the XR experience show of "Wuzhen Connected with New Life", and use Wuzhen and its surrounding rich historical and cultural resources to create nine interview lines such as "Dream Water Town" and "Crossing the Ancient Town", and launch the special dishes of "Hundred Counties and Thousand Bowls", so that guests can feel the different space of digital empowerment light and shadow art, appreciate the unique charm of Jiangnan water town and imagine the bright future of digital civilization.

　　The wisdom experience has been comprehensively improved. In the past ten years, from "a boat with a leaf" to "a huge ship breaking waves", Wuzhen Summit has become an experience window of cutting-edge technology and a stage for displaying trendy products.

　　For example, around the intelligent meeting and digital experience, optimize the "Wuzhen Summit One Stop" WeChat applet; Wuzhen atmospheric monitoring super station was built and activated; Enrich intelligent experience scenes such as meta-universe 3D printing and AI traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment; The newly-built "Future Land" Future Life Digital Experience Hall will allow visitors to experience the scientific and technological achievements such as future community, future travel and future learning by establishing their own "digital avatars".

　　Spillover effect continues to amplify.

　　In the past ten years, led by Wuzhen Summit, pilot tasks such as digital economy innovation and development pilot zone, industrial Internet national demonstration zone and digital village construction leading zone, as well as major projects such as "Wuzhen Light" supercomputer center and national Internet backbone direct connection point have successively settled in Zhejiang. Digitalization has become an important aspect of high-quality development and modern governance in Zhejiang.

　　For Tongxiang, the permanent venue of Wuzhen Summit, the number of digital economy enterprises in Tongxiang has increased tenfold in the past decade; The number of national high-tech enterprises increased from more than 40 to nearly 700, and the proportion of high-tech industries increased from 30.9% to 67.8%. The added value of the core manufacturing industry of the digital economy in the city has increased by more than 25% annually. The leading industries have changed from the "three silks and one spinning" of mulberry silk, chemical fiber silk, glass fiber silk and textile and clothing to the "three intelligences and one network" of smart cars, intelligent computing, intelligent sensing and industrial Internet.

　　As the largest and highest-standard sub-forum of this Wuzhen Summit, Zhejiang Sub-forum, with the theme of "Digital Economy Leading the Construction of Modern Industrial System", invited 15 academicians, experts and representatives of entrepreneurs in the digital economy field at home and abroad to discuss the new path of digital integration and industrial synergy, and seek new measures for the digital economy to lead high-quality development.

　　In addition, the three "permanent venues" featured activities were also brilliant and fruitful: at the digital economy industry cooperation conference, more than 70 projects were signed, with an amount exceeding 100 billion yuan; Building and Sharing Integrated Digital Civilization in the Yangtze River Delta — — At the Digital Yangtze River Delta Development Conference, the Yangtze River Delta cities initiated the establishment of the cooperation mechanism of "Yangtze River Delta Intelligent Industry committee of 100" and "Wuzhen Dialogue"; In the demonstration activities of digital empowerment and common prosperity demonstration zone construction, Zhejiang’s vivid picture of accelerating the construction of the national digital village leading zone and the all-round development of digital empowerment villages has won high recognition and wide attention.

　　It is reported that the five projects attracted by this summit have landed in Tongxiang, and the talent blind date will be held offline for the first time. More than 1,200 companies including IBM and Baidu have released more than 10,000 jobs to build a platform for direct dialogue and negotiation for people with lofty ideals and employers.

　　Know each other far and near, Wan Li is still a neighbor. Wuzhen, look forward to the next decade!

　　Source: Zhejiang Daily Author: Reporter Wang Yuhong Editor: Chen Zhouying