Xinhua News Agency:

As Mr. Liu just introduced, preparations for the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2024 are already underway. What are the differences between the big-data expo this year and in previous years? Can you introduce this year's highlights and special events? Thank you.

Liu Liehong:

I will take these questions. Thank you for your interest in the Big Data Expo. This year's Big Data Expo is the first to be organized by the NDA and hosted by the People's Government of Guizhou Province. The Big Data Expo has been held for 10 sessions since 2015. With years of experiences, the Big Data Expo has become an important platform for bringing together industry elite, setting the pace for avant-garde trends as well as pooling global resources.

This year's Big Data Expo is scheduled to be held in Guiyang city, Guizhou province from August 28 to 30. We hope that people from all walks of life will pay more attention to and participate in the expo. Themed around integrating digital and intelligent technologies to reshape the future and realize high-quality development of the digital economy, this year's expo features professional exhibitions, releases of achievements, industry exchange activities and serial special events. We hope that, by holding the Big Data Expo, we can further promote the high-quality development of the digital economy, fully tap the potential of data, contribute to building a digital China and take the data industry to new heights.

This year, with a greater emphasis on professionalism, we will invite relevant national ministries and commissions to release a number of high-level, distinctive and influential industry research reports, technical norms, typical cases, etc. Among them, the NDA will also release a series of achievements. This year's Big Data Expo will also be centered on three key areas, namely, the new frontier of the digital economy, basic data systems as well as data empowerment, focusing on industrial development, data space, international collaboration, artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation, data circulation, digital governance, digital villages, computing power coordination, data security and other themes to carry out industry exchange activities, and select and release major leading sci-tech achievements.

This year, we will also highlight the service aspect, continue to foreground participating enterprises and carry out various activities such as product promotion, trade negotiations, cooperation exchanges and observation tours. We hope that, through the platform of the Big Data Expo, we can build bridges for more enterprises and help Chinese and foreign enterprises find opportunities for business cooperation.

This year we will also highlight the diversity of exhibitions. The theme of high-quality development of the digital economy will run through the entire process and every link of the expo. Six themed exhibition sections will be set up and will cover digital industry, integration of digital and real economy, data trading, digital governance, digital infrastructure and data security. We will invite data, industry, agriculture, finance and other sectors and institutions both at home and abroad to participate. The latest development dynamics, achievements and cutting-edge trends of the domestic and foreign data industries will be fully on display, so that all sectors of society can gain tangible benefits through the Big Data Expo.

Thank you.