STORY: Ten years on, WIC Wuzhen Summit witnesses accelerated progress in building a digital China
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 8, 2023
DATELINE: Nov. 9, 2023
LENGTH: 00:03:00
LOCATION: WUZHEN, China
CATEGORY: ECONOMY/TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. STANDUP (English): YANG ZHIXIANG, Xinhua correspondent
2. various of the 2023 World Internet Conference
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GENIE GAN, Head of Government Affairs for Asia-Pacific, Japan, Middle East, Türkiye & Africa, Kaspersky
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANTONIO FRISOLI, Co-founder, Board member & Scientific coordinator, Next Generation Robotics
5. various of the 2023 World Internet Conference

STORYLINE:

STANDUP (English): YANG ZHIXIANG, Xinhua correspondent
"The 2023 World Internet Conference (WIC) Wuzhen Summit is underway in Wuzhen, China. This year marks the 10th year that the WIC Wuzhen Summit is held.
This year's event features 20 sub-forums on topics such as the Global Development Initiative, the coordinated transformation toward digitalization and green growth, and artificial intelligence." 

Themed "Creating an Inclusive and Resilient Digital World Beneficial to All -- Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace," the summit has gathered over 1,800 guests from more than 120 countries and regions to participate online or offline this year.

Foreign attendees said that the fruitful results yielded since the initiation of the WIC a decade ago serve as vivid testimony to the accelerated progress in building a digital China.

SOUNDBITE 1 (English): GENIE GAN, Head of Government Affairs for Asia-Pacific, Japan, Middle East, Türkiye & Africa, Kaspersky
"The event is extremely impressive. This has attracted so many people from around the world. It's great to be here.
I think it goes to show the commitment and dedication that China, as a country, has in terms of digital transformation, in terms of internet governance, and all that. And I think that resolve and the determination of China to make improvement for the world economy and the ecosystem around this subject is incredible. I really just look forward to more success of the World Internet Conference held in China."

SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ANTONIO FRISOLI, Co-founder, Board member & Scientific coordinator, Next Generation Robotics
"I think it's a very relevant and important event for the digitalization economy. 
It is important to have common meetings in order to discuss strategic agenda and policy, in particular, for important technologies, nowadays, like generative AI. So in order to understand what are the common targets to pursue, to exchange vision, and also to discuss about potential problems, it is very important to have this cooperative international approach to future vision of development of technology.
China is a great place to advance the frontiers of research, and also to discuss potential ethical and societal issues in the introduction of new digital technology."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Wuzhen, China.
(XHTV)