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Digital China Summit: Top tech executives share their visions

2019-05-07 17:43   Source: CHINADAILY   Font size:Big medium small   read:{{ pvCount }}

The second Digital China Summit kicked off on Monday in Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province, attracting representatives of companies such as Tencent, Baidu, Huawei and Ant Financial to share their insights on digital development.

The summit, which will last until Wednesday, has placed various topics on agenda, including e-government, big data, smart society and internet of things.

Here are some of the voices heard from enterprise leaders at the event that offer a glimpse of the current progress in the digitalization field.

Pony Ma Huateng delivers a speech at the second Digital China Summit in Fuzhou on May 6, 2019. [Photo by Hu Meidong/chinadaily.com.cn]

Pony Ma said industrial internet is becoming an important carrier of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization.

Informationization is the biggest variable in the new round of science and technology industry revolution in the world, he said.

Ma added, to turn the variable into the largest increment in enterprises' innovation and development, industrial internet needs to act as a converter.

 

Robin Li Yanhong delivers a speech at the second Digital China Summit in Fuzhou on May 6, 2019. [Photo by Hu Meidong/chinadaily.com.cn]

When China's digitalization process meets artificial intelligence, Li said, countries, cities, industries and enterprises all have the opportunity to play their own advantages, seizing the opportunity to tap the huge value buried in the data and creating an intelligence feast with Chinese characteristics for the world.

Hu Xiaoming introduces the supET Industrial Platform-as-a-Serivce (PaaS) during the fifth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, on Nov 7, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Hu said China has been far ahead in building digital China by joint efforts made by government, enterprises and technological innovation.

Wu Manqing delivers a speech at a forum in Beijing on Nov 16, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Wu said beyond network, modern information infrastructure needs connectivity of things and data, while ensuring co-governance, co-construction, and sharing.

Guo Wei speaks at a summit in Beijing on Nov 30, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Guo said China should be guided by the strategic thinking of digital China, rely on the core technology of independent innovation to develop digital China based on digital Fujian.

It should start with government construction, and with the help of big data, a governing framework of co-construction, co-governance and sharing is going to shape up, he said, adding all of these contribute to win the battle against poverty and build a digital China.

Sun Pishu attends a sub-forum of the fifth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, on Nov 8, 2018. [Photo/IC]

Sun pointed out three elements in building a smart government: government cloud, government data operation and government service portals.

The logo of WeBank is seen on a smartphone. [Photo/IC]

Inclusive finance has to build up on four factors: accessible, affordable, appropriate and sustainable, Jiang said.

Still, he admitted technology also plays a key role in this area through improving efficiency and users' experience, supporting large-scale business, lowing cost and controlling risks.

A woman walks past a Huawei store at a shopping mall in Beijing on July 4, 2018. [Photo/IC]

According to Jiang, Huawei discovered that the digital economy has expanded at a rate of 2.5 times of GDP growth over the past 15 years, based on the company's study of economic development and model in 79 countries.

Jiang said the more developed the country is, the higher proportion the digital economy enjoys, the research showed.

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