Cutting-edge innovations light up Wuzhen Summit
Fifteen cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements made by world-leading internet companies from China and abroad were unveiled at the event dubbed the Oscars for the industry at the 2022 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit on Nov 9 in East China’s Zhejiang province.
This year’s significant innovations and the summit’s pledge to unswervingly present, exchange and promote the latest global technologies have been highly appreciated by experts worldwide and audiences, the event’s organizers said.
The achievements were selected from a pool of 257 projects through voting by a team of experts from China and abroad.
The release ceremony showcased progress in frontier sections such as 5G/6G networks, IPv6+ protocol, artificial intelligence, operating systems, cyberspace security, supercomputing, high-performance chips, and “digital twins”.
This year’s latest advancements bridge many gaps in the internet industry. China Unicom’s IPv6+ is among the avant-garde selections.
Based on the IPv6+ technology, a smart data private network was built during the Winter Olympics earlier this year in Beijing. It provided the shortest latency, the highest performance, reliable high-quality service, and strongly supported the 2022 Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics, said Liang Baojun, vice-president of China United Network Communications Group Co., during the release ceremony.
Justin Zhao, deputy general manager of Microsoft China, said the company’s Azure Digital Twins is a firstparty digital twin service. A digital twin is a virtual model that accurately reflects a physical object.
The Azure product, Zhao said, not only has a single digital twin technology service capability but also provides open platform services. These can integrate with various digital platforms to offer cross-industry and end-to-end digital twin solutions.
The 5G Time-Critical Communication Enabled Remote Control system, jointly developed by Ericsson, China Mobile and Tencent Cloud, provides a bounded latency guarantee mechanism for delay-sensitive applications, said Fang Ying, president of Ericsson China.
At the opening ceremony of the Wuzhen Summit on Nov 9, international organizations called for efforts to reinforce global communication and cooperation, to allow achievements in internet development to benefit people all over the world.
The three-day conference, with the theme, “Toward a Shared Digital Future in a Connected World — Building a Community With a Shared Future in Cyberspace”, is both timely and forwardlooking, said Li Junhua, under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs of the United Nations.
“The United Nations attaches priority to digital technologies and the internet in building a prosperous, inclusive and shared future with no one left behind.”
John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd., an international association of mobile operators, emphasized the significance of making sure that everyone benefits fairly as the internet-based economy continues to expand.
“We are now seeing 5G begin to take off around the world with China as one of its global pioneers, and with it, we are seeing even more transformation.”
However, about 3.7 billion people are not yet benefiting from access to the mobile internet. “So as we work toward building a better future, and a more inclusive and connected society, we must focus on closing these gaps to make sure that everyone has the chance to benefit from the transformational power of internet access,” he added.