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This year coincides with the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Internet and the 25th anniversary of China's full-function access to the Internet. After years of rapid development, after many dividends hit the ceiling, is the development momentum of the Internet industry still strong? The answer is yes. With the accelerated evolution of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, artificial intelligence, big data, the Internet of things and other new technologies have injected new kinetic energy into the development of the Internet industry. At the current World Internet Conference, industry curries have been emphasizing the important role of technology. For example, Baidu Chairman and CEO Robin Li stressed the "intelligent economy." Some analysts believe that Baidu's "intelligent economy" is When the dividend of Internet traffic is exhausted, AI is used as the technical basis and hardware as the gateway to find a new way to find a larger market. NetEase CEO Ding Lei is bluntly saying that in order to move upstream, competition will go from demographic dividend to technology. Ai and other technical companies will become the new mainstream, and a variety of industries to do long-span integration.

In recent years, the rapid development of the Internet makes people have to speed up the pace, in the trend of the Internet, the eternal is change, change is the hard truth. And this is also reflected in this World Internet Congress after another. We are also looking forward to learning about new developments and new goals in the development of the Internet through the General Assembly.

Third, internationalization continues to improve. The organization of the General Assembly adheres to the international vision, actively strengthens the interaction and cooperation with well-known international organizations and international think tanks, brings together more than 40 international organizations such as many organizations of the United Nations system, the World Economic Forum, and the Global Association of Mobile Communication Systems, promotes a number of high-standard dialogues and forum activities, and promotes the formation of more global consensus. At the same time, this year's conference guests invited higher specifications, more diversified, government representatives, business leaders, well-known experts and scholars, heads of international organizations and other important guests will attend.

The Internet has been developing at a high speed and keeping pace with the times. As a gathering place of world-class Internet exchange forums, the World Internet Congress is naturally in line with the changes of the times. Liu Lihong, deputy director of the National Internet Information Office, once pointed out that this year's conference has three new features compared with previous years.

Second, the attraction continues to increase. The content of this year's Congress forum will be richer. From a quantitative point of view, we will focus on the four key sectors of "science and technology", "industry and economy,"humanities and society,"cooperation and governance," and have set up 20 sub-forums to invite guests from all walks of life to collide with each other and gather global wisdom. From the design point of view, a number of classic brand forums, such as the Chinese and Foreign Ministers Summit Forum and the Entrepreneur Summit Forum, will continue to be held, while a number of high-level, high-quality forums will be added, which will be more attractive. From the point of view of the issue, it not only covers artificial intelligence, 5G, open source chips and other scientific and technological hotspots, but also includes industry digitization, gold. The integration of science and technology, industrial Internet and other industrial frontiers, but also related to cyberspace data governance, cyberspace international rules and other issues of concern, more targeted and forward-looking.

From October 20 to October 22, 2019, the sixth World Internet Congress was held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province. with the theme of "Intelligent Interconnection and Open Cooperation-working together to build a Community of Destiny in cyberspace", we thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and closely revolved around the "four principles" put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping to promote the reform of the global Internet governance system. The "five propositions" of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace, adhering to the concept of openness, equality, mutual trust and win-win cooperation, provide collision ideas for all parties, create consensus, work together to build a community of destiny in cyberspace.

First, the new architecture made its debut. On the basis of the "12" framework of the previous Congress, which includes leading scientific and technological achievements release and expo, this year, the "straight to Wuzhen" global Internet competition has been added, forming a new "1.3" structure. The world Internet leading scientific and technological achievements release activities held during the Congress will further look around the world on the basis of the previous sessions, keep up with the frontier development trend of the Internet, and release about 15 of the top Internet scientific research achievements in the year; the "Light of the Internet" Expo will open a new exhibition hall, with a total construction area of 40,000 square meters, and actively make use of new products, new technologies, project cooperation negotiations, and other sectors. The "Direct to Wuzhen" Global Internet Competition, which focuses on the field of Internet mass entrepreneurship and innovation, is an international brand for building emerging industries and digital economy. during this Congress, Finals and awards activities will be held to promote global Internet cooperation and innovation and stimulate the vitality of Internet entrepreneurship.