Shou Xiaoli:
Thank you, Mr. Zhao. Next, the floor goes to Mr. Zhu.
Zhu Guoxian:
Thank you. Good afternoon, friends from the media. It gives me great pleasure to come to the press conference hall of the State Council Information Office once again a year on and brief you on this year's World Internet Conference · Internet Development Forum. On behalf of the Zhejiang provincial committee of the CPC and Zhejiang provincial government, I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely invite all friends, both old and new, to meet in Wuzhen for the grand gathering and discuss the new digital future.
During his visit to Zhejiang this spring, General Secretary Xi Jinping set a new goal and new positioning for the province, that is, to strive to be an important window for representing the great strength of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee has made major decisions and arrangements for enhancing China's strength in cyberspace and digital technology. As a major province of internet development and digital economy, Zhejiang will use the opportunity to host the World Internet Conference to lead trends of the times, contribute to human progress, create a better life, and empower future development.
Just now, Mr. Zhao briefed on the changes in relevant activities of this forum. As the host city, we will never change our philosophy of making each session better than the previous, nor will we change our firm faith in jointly building and sharing the internet and our unremitting pursuit to make people's lives better with the internet.
We will continue to apply intelligent technologies in the conference and ensure it a safe and successful event. We will put people and their lives first throughout the preparation, strictly implement the requirements for regular epidemic prevention and control, make full use of our successful experience, and establish a prevention and control mechanism features full chain, full coverage and checklist management to realizes cientific prevention and closed-loop management. Guest registration, transportation, and conference services will adopt technologies such as non-contact face scanning, QR code passes, and infrared sensors to improve our intelligent services. Adopting the form of"online + offline", we will set up live broadcasting platforms and open an online expo. With the help of 5G, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, both online and offline activities will be presented simultaneously to holda smartand safe conference.
We will continue to keep to the right path and make innovations to present a concise but wonderful forum. The World Internet Conference has witnessed great changes amid the backdrop of the ancient town with a thousand years of history. We aim to make the forum a world internet conference that continues throughout the year. Those changes will promote further integration of the internet elements into the cultural genes of Wuzhen. A new exhibition will showcase the latest achievements in internet technologies worldwide on a regular basis. The country's first online and offline integrated public ecological park, which features new infrastructure and 5G plus intelligent interactive experiences, will be established. The park is designed to bea cloud agricultural experimental field, vividly displaying changes brought by the internet through immersive experiences and interactive scenes. Over 100 leading enterprises in the industry, including Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, and Epson, will take part in the exhibition and present a batch of their latest scientific and technological achievements. Leading figures in the internet field in China and abroad will attend sessions of the forum or deliver a speech via video link, presenting a feast of ideas for internet-led changes.
We will focus on how digital technologies have empowered the economy and make the forum a success. The previous six sessions of the World Internet Conference have offered strong driving forces to the digital economy of Zhejiang province and the development of the whole province. The province's GDP grew by 2.3% year on year in the first three quarters of 2020. The value-added of core industries of the digital economy increased by 14.4% year on year, making them the main engine of the province's economic growth, the major driving force in transformation and upgrading, and the main field in entrepreneurship and innovation. In particular, consumers who stayed at home during the epidemic have stimulated the development of the online economy. In the first three quarters, online retail sales through e-commerce in Zhejiang province reached 1.3968 trillion yuan, up 12.1% year on year. Meanwhile, online spending among residents in the province reached 719.4 billion yuan, up 9.1% year on year. Digital technologies are also profoundly changing Zhejiang people's daily lives.The public now enjoy increasingly better access to government services. The City Brain, a smart city platform aiming to improve urban management, has made cities smarter and life better.
Friends from the media, Zhejiang will take this opportunity to study and implement the spirit of the fifth plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and faithfully implement the strategy to give further play to Zhejiang's advantages in eight areas and push forward measures across its eight aspects. We will strive to create an important window, and be a good host for the grand event. We have the confidence to present you with a unique Wuzhen. Thank you again for your attention and support for Zhejiang. Let's meet in Wuzhen. Thank you.
Shou Xiaoli:
Thank you, Mr. Zhu. Now, the floor is open for questions. Please identify your news outlet before you raise a question.
