Los Angeles Times (Sunday)

Cutting-edge innovation­s light up Wuzhen Summit

- — MA ZHENHUAN AND FAN FEIFEI

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.

 ?? WEI XIAOHAO / CHINA DAILY ?? A guest tries out a pair of AR glasses during the 2022 World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
WEI XIAOHAO / CHINA DAILY A guest tries out a pair of AR glasses during the 2022 World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.

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