WIC advocates closer cooperation
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Chinese President Xi Jinping gives a speech via video at the opening ceremony of the3rd World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 16, 2016. |
Highlighting innovation-driven development, the Third World Internet Conference (WIC) called for closer international cooperation to tackle severe challenges and projected what the world would look like in the foreseeable future.
Themed "Innovation-driven Internet Development for the Benefit of All -- Building a Community of Common Future in Cyberspace," the WIC was held in Wuzhen, a water town in southeast China's Zhejiang Province from November 16 to 18.
More than 1,600 guests from over 110 countries and regions attended the conference, which consisted of 16 forums covering issues related to economy, culture, governance, and international internet cooperation.
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech via video at the opening of the conference. He applauded the great progress that has come with the internet and discussed new challenges and opportunities.
Xi said all countries should have independence in managing their own internet industry and called for equality among nations in participating in global information industry governance, pledging that China would like to work together with the international community to ensure the common well-being of humanity, uphold cyberspace sovereignty and make the global internet governance much fairer and more equitable.
"The development of the internet has no national boundaries. To take advantage of, promote and govern it, we must call for closer international cooperation and joint efforts to build a community of a common future in cyberspace," he said.
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Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the third World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 16, 2016. |
Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony and met with some distinguished guests and representatives both from home and abroad.
With more than 700 million netizens, China is willing to strengthen policy coordination and cooperation with other countries, Liu said at the opening ceremony, suggesting that "a multilateral and transparent global internet governance system" be built to benefit the whole world.
At the conference, Xu Lin, director of Cyberspace Administration of China, the country's internet regulatory body, stressed interconnection and shared governance in cyberspace, saying that it is the common responsibility for international society to maintain internet security.
He also emphasized that China welcomes foreign companies and entrepreneurs who are willing to develop new products and services in the country as long as they respect local laws, adding that China will step up efforts to push forward bilateral and multilateral digital economic cooperation projects.
It is noteworthy that the Chinese government is actively promoting internet infrastructure in the countries along the Belt and Road (the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road).
China-Pakistan cross-border cable project, a project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has been under construction since May.
Chen Zhaoxiong, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology, pointed out that China is working on unifying standards for cross-border e-commerce in the Belt and Road countries to tackle technological challenges.
Internet companies are also seeking international cooperation. In order to boost big data and cloud computing in the Middle East and North Africa. Aliyun, Alibaba's cloud computing subsidiary, set up a joint venture with Dubai's Meraas in May 2015.
Another highlight of the gathering is "the Oscar of the internet industry" - about 15 state-of-the-art achievements were unveiled. Developed by companies such as Alibaba, Baidu, IBM and Microsoft, the cutting edge innovations mainly focus on artificial intelligence (AI), cyber security, self-driving vehicles and virtual reality.
The conference delivered the Wuzhen Report on World Internet Development 2016 on its closing day, which stated cybercrime and cyber terrorism as grave challenges to global peace and security and suggested international internet rules should be established on the basis of respecting national sovereignty in cyberspace.
"It is recognized that there will always be a balance to be struck between the interests of e-commerce and cyber security. China is as aware of this as any other country. Given that this issue is certain to come up again in some form, China's initiative in bringing it to the world's attention at an early stage must be welcomed, especially as this is an area in which technological development is extremely rapid," wrote Tim Collard, a columnist with China.org.cn.
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