What they say

emphasize the mutual empowerment between cultural values and social benefits. And this is Tencent’s lifeline.

Feng Fei,

executive vicegovernor of

Zhejiang province

As a demonstrative example of an information economy, Zhejiang is responsible for, and capable of, promoting online cultural exchanges. We will actively carry out online cultural exchanges, undertake efforts to let Zhejiang’s culture spread and tell the Zhejiang chapter of the Chinese story well. We’d like to contribute our strengths by sharing traditional Chinese culture, the contemporary Chinese spirit and the achievements of social development with people from all over the world.

Yang Yang, vice-president of the All-China Youth Federation

We applied to host the Olympic Games to gain a platform upon which we can show China’s cultural, political, economic and technological achievements. The internet can play a big role in the promotion of that.

As the president of Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, I believe we will ensure the full coverage of 5G internet during the games. Athletes will have their own digital space in which they will be able to share their stories in Beijing with family members, friends and fans worldwide.

Kenneth Fok, president of the Asian Electronic Sports Federation

Young people play a role in the development of online culture. We should let them participate, listen to their voices and help them in a down-to-earth way. I think systematic and institutional support is needed.

Wang Hongyan head of the secretariat of the Communist Youth League of China Central Committee

Right now, information technology, represented by the internet, is developing rapidly. It has led new changes in social production, created new space for human life, enhanced people’s ability to know about and change the world, and resulted in the creation of a colorful online culture.

When entering the internet age, cultural development and mutual learning between civilizations enjoy new ways, carriers and channels. The internet offers a broader space for young people to protect cultural heritage, pass on human civilization, create quality work and promote communication. Li Dongsheng, chairman and CEO of TCL

The traditional TV industry must upgrade with the help of intellectual technology. Smart TV can provide various programs to watch, as well as community services and essential knowledge regarding subjects as diverse as medical treatment and e-shopping.

In our view the best ways to achieve this are: 1. Form a business model of hardware+internet; 2. Establish a big data analyzing system to better meet customers’ needs; 3. Build “over the top” — or OTT — operational industrial chains, such as standalone products and services that are distributed solely over the internet; 4, Promote new products.

I believe in the future, TVs will become smarter with greater functionality and new services, and they will become an important symbol of the smart home, providing a better experience for customers.

Pony Ma Huateng,

chairman and CEO of Tencent Group

Internet technology has energized and greatly changed the traditional cultural industry.

The lifting of Tencent Group’s status in the global cultural market is a microcosm of China’s international exchanges on online culture. Chinese enterprises have become the main carriers of the internet industry. As platforms with certain social functions, they will exert great impact on society in all respects. Therefore, we should

Leo Caillard,

director of Leo Caillard Art Studio of France

We can use digital technology to construct future museums on the basis of traditional museums. We can use smartphones to appreciate art. New technology can help us to have better experience so that we can see not only the images, but also a new type of museum. Digital technology changes our relationship with time very quickly. In just several seconds’ time, everything can be connected.

I believe digital technology is the future of cultural heritage. Now it is a new technology, a tool to connect people, but in the future, it will be a global culture.

Digital technology should also realize human emotions, it should connect our stories and aspirations. It should connect art in the past and the present. Much of modern art is being based on digital technology. Gao Xiaohong, professor at Communication University of

China

The younger generation is seen as “digital natives”. Taking the internet as a platform and young people as the main body, determining how to build a community of a shared future in cyberspace has become an important issue for China’s higher education in the new era.

The internet has not only changed social life but also redefined education. Disseminating internet knowledge, teaching internet skills and cultivating cyber literacy are new concerns in online eduction during the era. We should further explore new ideas, channels and development opportunities for specialized education amid media convergence.

Ediola Pashollari, secretarygeneral of World Assembly of Youth

We need the internet not only as a technology, but also a cultural artifact. Cyberspace has brought some opportunities for us that are of vital importance in this century, we believe.

However, it also brings some challenges. Can young people maintain their mental health when they, at present, have too little face-to-face communication? I think the internet should give young people more positive energy. Young people have a responsibility to communicate, to spread culture and to exchange ideas, instead of engaging in cyberbullying. Zhou Yuan, founder and CEO of Zhihu

The internet does not only represent a culture of popularity, fans and material gains. Another important cultural force is that we young people can help each other and add to the valuable information online by offering knowledge we are familiar with. In this kind of culture, if you are attentive you will win. This culture contains an ethos of mutual help and mutual improvement in ways to pursue new knowledge.