On November 11, the 2022 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit ended in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. Looking back on the three-day meeting, in the small ancient town water town, the quiet sound of the years, and the speeding Internet, once again collided and stirred, rubbing out wonderful sparks.
Wuzhen is a thousand years old, but a moment of history. The three days of the conference are also a moment in the Internet world. But even for a moment, how many precious memories and traces are left?
Mountains and seas have their own return date, and wind and rain have their own encounters. Nine years after the Wuzhen Summit, the Internet has collective memories: we crossed mountains and seas, met a group of people, harvested some fruits, and presented a plan.
A bunch of people
Between the white walls and devas, the shadows of the trees swayed. In the water town of Wuzhen, there are figures everywhere. As soon as the guests from all over the world got off the plane and high-speed train, they stepped onto the stone street, boarded the crow boat, and sat in the wooden attic.
Such a time-space transformation is already quite familiar to everyone, and the car is familiar with the road. This year, Wuzhen continued to be popular, with 2,000 delegates from more than 120 countries signing up for the summit, the most ever held. There is an endless stream of people who come to the exhibition.
Wuzhen cannot do without these people, and the Internet world cannot do without these people.
People are the key variable of the Internet and the largest increment. Wuzhen always has new faces and old friends. Sohu's Zhang Chaoyang laughs and calls himself an Internet living fossil, 360's Zhou Hongyi still loves to wear red, and NetEase's Ding Lei still loves to talk about agriculture. And Hu Weiwu, who attended the meeting for the first time, excitedly swung the rocking boat. British Internet celebrity blogger Lu Ke can't help but tell the world about the excitement of meeting the big coffee for the first time.
Visitors from all directions, each expressing their own opinions. How loud are these people in Wuzhen, and how many echoes are stirred? If these voices are listened to together, there are unexpected results: there are clashes of views, there are clashes of ideas, but more often they coincide. Coincidentally, it is the keyword of this year.
For example, public opinion is boiling around, engaging in digital and physical confrontation, criticizing the virtual economy, while Alibaba's Daniel Zhang said that it will always take root in the real economy, and Huawei's Xu Zhijun said that it is necessary to promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy. NetEase's Ding Lei hopes that more manufacturing companies will participate in the conference and create qualitative change together.
For example, in today's global economy is volatile and uncertainty has become the norm, there are some firm voices: Cisco Chairman and CEO Luo Zhuoke said that it will continue to cultivate the Chinese market, and small and medium-sized enterprises have great potential. Arvind Krishna, chairman and CEO of IBM, said China's digital economy is dynamic and competitive. Chao Weizhong, vice president of Cisco Greater China, also said that he is full of motivation and confidence in the Chinese market.
This year, Wuzhen also did a big thing, bringing together a group of people with aspirations into one organization. This year, the World Internet Conference International Organization was officially established, and the Wuzhen Summit is the first annual meeting. Of course, there are also a group of international organizations, the International Telecommunication Union, the World Intellectual Property Organization, and the Global Mobile Communications Association, who are willing to come from afar to support the Wuzhen platform, which is itself a condensation of consensus.
If the voice of a group of people is not loud enough, then in the name of an organization, gather people's hearts, gather strength, amplify and multiply the voice, and convey it to the world with the help of waterways and river networks and information highways, which is the meaning of the Wuzhen Summit.
We also see that in the Internet world, there are still ravines and thorns. 3.2 billion people in the world cannot enjoy mobile Internet services, the Internet has technological hegemony, bullying and harassment, and network security and cyberspace sovereignty are facing tests. Therefore, bridging the gap and safe governance have become a permanent topic of the Wuzhen Summit and a major proposition that mankind must answer.
In the final analysis, the most important thing about the Internet is people, and people are variables and constants. Without the last person connected, the Internet does not reach the world. Without technology returning to governance, it will be difficult for the Internet to benefit all mankind.
Some fruit
A Wuzhen summit, which has been held for nine consecutive years, is really not easy to talk about constant newness. Some people may ask, after the fireworks of thought, is there any insight or empty talk? Then, the fruits of science and technology that bloom everywhere are the best annotations to the summit.
Digital twins, cloud showrooms, metaverse digital doppelgangers, intelligent vehicle-road collaboration systems, AR perception interactive glasses, exoskeleton robots... The "Light of the Internet" expo held during the conference brought black technology from more than 400 domestic and foreign enterprises and institutions around the world brought people into a new sensory world.
When you see these new technologies and new products one day, don't be surprised that they are extending from the exhibition hall to the outside of the venue, from the cold laboratory to the hot life.
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and Wuzhen wrote practice on the earth. A matter of social life is no longer a dragonfly, but an ink-splashing digital reform is taking place.
At this year's summit, there were two rather special shows. One is the innovative "permanent venue" special event, which is by enterprises and local governments themselves on the stage, shouting and attracting audiences. In other words, in this digital transformation, only the most vivid and down-to-earth practical experience can make people "pass on by word" and continue from generation to generation.
The other is the digital yuan show, which is popular on the booth and more popular in life. This year, digital currency debuted at the World Internet Conference. Although it has appeared on the international stage of the Winter Olympics, the first "touch" of digital currency is more meaningful to digital life. Everyone can participate, receive exclusive red envelopes for the Internet conference, and you can buy good goods from the whole network.
These shows are still extending and evolving. Digital transformation is like spring rain and silent, whether it is a small change or a huge change, it is to nurture a more prosperous future.
This year, the conference released 15 annual leading scientific and technological achievements. The conference collected 257 achievements from all over the world, selected by 40 well-known experts at home and abroad on the Internet, covering 5G and 6G, IPv6, artificial intelligence, network security, supercomputing, high-performance chips, digital twins and other cutting-edge fields.
In the Internet era, what is the leading achievement? This is not a matter of saying or hammering the nail on the head. It must be globally leading and representative, and it must continue to update and iterate to withstand the test of the times and society.
Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chairman of the Internet Society of China, once said: "These leading scientific and technological achievements are not only a technology or platform, but also show an international thinking power and leadership." ”
Wuzhen also needs to witness more new fruits and new forces. During the conference, the 2022 "Direct to Wuzhen" Global Internet Competition ended successfully, with a total of 1,110 projects from 23 countries signing up for the competition, including seven tracks such as industrial Internet, artificial intelligence, connected vehicles, and network security. More than 1,000 projects have competed for dozens of award-winning projects, and outstanding new talents have sprung up like mushrooms.
A scenario
At a time when the world pattern is turbulent and the voice of anti-globalization is fluctuating, the Wuzhen Summit is still held at a high standard, welcoming global guests and seeking international consensus.
Looking at the depth of the timeline, we see the progress of the Wuzhen Summit. From paying attention to a big coffee and a star enterprise in the past, to focusing on a technology and an industry, to discussing a value and building a civilization, the World Internet Conference has gone deep layer by layer and embarked on a unique "Wuzhen Road".
"The global Internet is incomplete without China's full participation." At the first World Internet Conference, Fadi Chehad, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, said so.
This affirmation and expectation is not easy to come by, and it should be cherished. This also gives China a strong signal: China should establish its own concept and proposition of Internet development and governance, and let the world listen to China's voice and see China's plan.
Under the global digital trend, Wuzhen, as a pioneer, its every move is related to cyberspace and the future of mankind.
The two blue books are the plan given by Wuzhen. At the Wuzhen Summit, the "China Internet Development Report 2022" and the "World Internet Development Report 2022" blue books were released. Since 2017, the Blue Book has been released to the world for six consecutive years, which is an important achievement of the Wuzhen Summit to the world, shining with the light of digital society thinking.
It seems to be a light booklet, and behind the Blue Book is a heavy responsibility. Today, cyberspace is ushering in a once-in-a-lifetime development opportunity, and the progress of human civilization is also facing arduous challenges. Problems such as unbalanced development, imperfect rules, and unreasonable order in the Internet field lie between the present and the future, and need to be solved by all parties around the world.
In today's Wuzhen, China's propositions, Chinese solutions, and Chinese wisdom have been more and more praised by all parties, and China has spread the "good voice" of Internet development and governance to the wider and wider world.
As Francis Gurry, vice chairman of the World Internet Conference, said at the opening ceremony, the Wuzhen Summit can make a significant contribution to promoting the design of internationalization processes such as governance issues, and at the same time, inject a spirit of cooperation into the co-creation of a digital future.
Despite the rapid growth of the Internet, the community of shared future in cyberspace is still a young "newborn".
In infancy, we just heard a cry - the world is calling for the Wuzhen summit, and it is also calling on China to shoulder the responsibility of the times as a major country, and to present a sincere "China plan" for the fate of mankind.
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Source: Tianmu News