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Chairman Zhuang Rongwen attaches great importance to member affairs
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Zhuang Rongwen, Chair of the Council of the WIC, attached great importance to the work of member affairs and provided many important instructions. He requested, firstly, to strengthen the institutional building of the Council, and continuously improve the draft Rules of Procedure of the Council and other institutional documents; secondly, to focus on members, explore innovative modes of communication and cooperation between members and the WIC and between and among members, and effectively improve the level of membership services; thirdly, to develop international and high-end members, further expand the membership, and build a “circle of friends” for global Internet; fourthly, to scientifically plan the theme of “Member Day Activities”, track the development dynamics and demands of members, and actively build a brand of member service mechanism.
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Zhao Yide, Secretary of the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee, met with Secretary-General Ren Xianliang
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On February 20 and 21, Secretary General Ren Xianliang led a delegation to Xi'an, Shaanxi Province to meet with Zhao Yide, Secretary of the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee. Mr. Ren introduced the background and significance of establishing the WIC international organization, as well as the future considerations of the WIC in terms of organizing regular regional and thematic activities on a global scale. Secretary Zhao Yide warmly welcomed the WIC to organize international activities in Shaanxi, which would help promote the development of digital economy and serve high-quality development of Shaanxi. Shaanxi would strongly support the work of the WIC and facilitate the landing of relevant activities in Shaanxi.
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Secretary General Ren Xianliang led a delegation to the Mobile World Congress and the Ministerial Programme 2023
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Symposium on Practice Cases of Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace held in Beijing
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A symposium on Practice Cases of Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace was held in Beijing on Feb 8. WIC international organization invited nearly 30 representatives from organizations and institutions whose practice cases were presented at the release ceremony in 2022 to attend the symposium and hold in-depth exchanges and discussions on how to improve the influence of the event.
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Research symposium on proposal of Global Digital Compact held in Beijing
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The Secretariat of the WIC held a research symposium on the proposal of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) on Mar 2, in Beijing. More than 30 experts from over 15 global leading internet enterprises and research institutions, including Alibaba, Tencent, Qualcomm and IBM, attended the symposium.
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Ren Xianliang presides over symposium on planning 2023 WIC Wuzhen Summit
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In 2023, the WIC Wuzhen Summit will welcome its tenth year. To prepare for this summit, the WIC held an expert symposium on March 29 in Beijing. Ren Xianliang, the secretary-general of the WIC, presided over the symposium, inviting well-known experts and scholars among the WIC members, such as Wu Hequan, Louis Pouzin, Wu Jianping, Kilnam Chon, Sihan Bo Chen, Luigi Gambardella and Gao Xinmin to provide opinions and suggestions on the summit's theme, topics, and highlight activities.
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The world's first internet technology museum collecting exhibits
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The World Internet Science and Technology Museum in Wuzhen, which is the permanent venue of the WIC, will open to the public this year. The museum will unveil the legendary history and development of the Internet, and showcase the forefront achievements and applications of internet technologies. In line with the concept of "Beauty of All Creatures, Coexistance in the World," the museum is now collecting exhibits from all sectors of society.
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Member Highlights |
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| Special thanks to Alibaba, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Tower, DAS-Security, DiDi, Evernote, HONOR, Nokia Shanghai Bell, QAX, Qualcomm, Sina and Tesla for their contributions (list of companies in alphabetical order). |
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On January 27, QAX was recognized as a notable vendor in the global Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Landscape. Recently, Forrester, an authoritative international advisory firm, released the report “Software Composition Analysis Landscape, Q1 2023”, which identified 23 notable SCA vendors in the world. In the report, Forrester provides SCA buyers with a variety of options based on vendor size and market position to help them understand different vendors' offerings and make final purchasing decisions.
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On February 15th, Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon X75 modem, the world’s first 5G Advanced-ready Modem-RF System. 5G Advanced is the next phase of 5G technological evolution, and it will take connectivity to a whole new level, fueling the new reality of the Connected Intelligent Edge. Snapdragon X75 technologies and innovations empower OEMs to create next generation experiences across segments including smartphones, mobile broadband, automotive, compute, industrial IoT, fixed wireless access and 5G private networks.
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The quantum instruction set of Alibaba DAMO Academy has greatly improved the compilation performance. Based on the end-to-end evaluation from chip design to software performance, the Quantum Laboratory of DAMO Academy has developed a set of software-hardware collaboration framework to design quantum instruction sets. Experiments show that compared with the instruction set with the mainstream iSWAP gate as the core, the self-execution time of the SQisW gate core instructions of DAMO Academy is reduced by 50%, and the error rate is reduced by 41%; the number of instructions required to execute the benchmark quantum program is reduced by 26%. The final error rate was reduced by 50%. The results were published in the latest issue of the top physics journal "Physical Review Letters". According to the journal review, this will help revolutionize the industry's paradigm for designing quantum instruction sets.
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On February 27, at MWC2023, the GSMA successfully held a release ceremony for the 5G Co-Construction and Sharing Guide. The Guide is the GSMA's officially designated innovation research project led by China Telecom and China Unicom. As global tech leaders and successful practitioners of 5G co-construction and sharing, China Telecom and China Unicom have joined hands with industry partners to develop the Guide, with the aim to output key co-construction and sharing technologies and experiences in operation and management to operators worldwide.
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On February 27，at MWC2023, the HONOR brought its dual-flagship strategy to life in global market, and launched the HONOR Magic5 Series and Magic Vs foldable smartphone during MWC2023. HONOR received a grand total of 42 awards from media at MWC, winning the recognition and trust of global and European telecommunication operators and partners.
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On March 1 (U.S. time), Tesla held its “Investor Day” event, where it made a series of major announcements, unveiled its “Master Plan Part 3” and announced that it would build its next Gigafactory in Mexico. At the same time, Tesla's four millionth vehicle rolled off the production line at Giga Texas. The “Master Plan Part 3” covers five areas towards fully sustainable energy: a complete shift to electric vehicles, the use of heat pumps in home, commercial and industrial applications, the use of high temperature energy storage and green hydrogen in industry, the application of sustainable energy in aircrafts and ships, and powering the existing grid with renewable energy.
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On March 1, Evernote announced that “Evernote AI” will soon be launched in response to the concerns of the industry and users about Evernote’s AI strategy. “Evernote AI” is a hybrid model based on the combination of Evernote’s multi-year self-developed lightweight large language model “Elephant GPT” and domestic and international large language models. It has become a multimodal and versatile knowledge management assistant driven by GPT, which will not only provide users with an open writing assistant in multiple scenarios, but also dive deep into all aspects of knowledge management.
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On March 8, China Unicom announced its annual results for 2022. In 2022, it achieved “four new records” in business development: operating revenue arrived at 354.9 billion yuan, up 8.3% year-on-year, a record growth rate in the past nine years; profit attributable to equity holders amounted to 16.7 billion yuan, up 16.5% year-on-year, a new record since its IPO after excluding non-operating profit and loss; and the share of industrial internet in total service revenue exceeded 20% for the first time, with the revenue from innovative business reaching a record high; EBITDA reached 99.2 billion yuan, a new high since the listing of the Company.
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On March 9, Sina Weibo officially kicked off the selection for the first new AI value list. The list will be jointly released by Weibo, Sina News and the Metaverse Culture Laboratory of School of Journalism, Tsinghua University. The list will be selected based on the rich experience accumulated by Weibo and Sina News in the fields of big data and AI, the professional research capabilities of Tsinghua University, and comprehensive analysis of dynamically monitored data of the AI industry chain, experts’ research opinions and public opinions. The selection activity will provide an objective and comprehensive reference for enterprises and AI followers, promote industry exchanges and drive the positive and healthy development of the industry.
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On March 14, China Tower and Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Zhang Zhiyong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Tower, Gu Xiaomin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of China Tower, Dong Mingzhu, Chairman and President of Gree, and Su Shaolin, Director General of Beijing Communications Administration attended and witnessed the signing ceremony. Yin Wenkai, Deputy General Manager of China Tower, and Tan Jianming, Vice President and Chief Engineer of Gree, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties. The two sides would carry out cooperation with a focus on scientific and technological innovation, green energy, intelligent operation, industry chain sharing and synergy and jointly serve national strategies such as building China into a strong country in manufacturing, quality, cyberspace and digital development.
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On March 15, the launch ceremony of OpenX Lab Innovation Center of Nokia Shanghai Bell and the board-awarding ceremony for the first group of partners were held in Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone of Shanghai. In 2022, the OpenX Lab Innovation Center joined the Pudong’s Group Open Innovation (GOI) plan. As an important part of this plan, the OpenX Lab Innovation Center will integrate Nokia Shanghai Bell's global resources and use five experimental platforms, including the frontier technology innovation lab, industrial metaverse lab, computing power network lab, smart park lab, and reliability testing and certification lab, as the cornerstone to boost the research of key common technologies in the industry, deeply participate in the development of the innovation ecosystem and continuously empower innovative enterprises.
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On March 15, Fan Yuan, Chairman of DAS-Security, had a meeting with Husain Al-Musallam, Director General of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), President of FINA and Secretary General of Kuwait Olympic Committee, who expressed his recognition and appreciation to DAS-Security as the official cybersecurity service partner of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2022.
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In March, DiDi held the 3rd Online Car-Hailing Partners Conference in Fuzhou with the theme of “Spring Outing”. 153 representatives from car rental companies, OEMs, financial institutions and other businesses from upstream and downstream of the industry chain gathered together to discuss how to build a more benign driver and vehicle service ecosystem, improve the operational efficiency of the industry chain and work together to achieve high-quality development.
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Development and Prospects of Cross-border E-commerce
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The Policy Research Center of eWTP, Alibaba Group
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As a new format and model for the development of China's foreign trade, China's cross-border e-commerce still maintains a rapid development trend, with increasing resilience and vitality, and has achieved outstanding results in brand cultivation, strategic global expansion, supply chain optimization, business model innovation, and compliance construction.
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