The 2nd World Internet Conference will be held on Dec 16-18 in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province. The Light of the Internet Expo is opened to the media and public on Dec 15.

Compared with last year, this year's expo has a larger scale and higher standards.

258 Internet technology giants including: Microsoft, IBM, SAP, SAMSUNG, PSAFE, Nokia, Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, JD.com, Qihoo 360 and other enterprises from around the world participate in the event.

The expo demonstrates the development and achievements of China's Internet in the past 20 years, along with its latest Internet technology and products that can best be described as a feast of IT.

Expo booths display newly released products, such as Baidu's driverless automobile cars, 5G technology and industry cloud platform of China Telecom, 3D printing, Qihoo 360's global network attack monitoring technology, SAP's industrial robots, Nokia's latest virtual reality camera platform, IBM's cognitive computing and Alibaba's sandbox, and much more.

You can also see network security related products, finance, Internet plus culture media integration, WIT120 and other fields

The expo hosts more than 80 various brand sharing conferences. Venture capital organization representatives from the United States, Japan and other countries are expected to participate.

The Fifth Plenary Session of 18th CPC Central Committee has put forward new development concepts of innovation, integration, greenness, openness and sharing.

China adheres to innovation and development to" implement network power strategy" and " Internet + " plan of action, share economic development and put forward a national strategy of big data.

China is pushing the "Internet +" strategy and promoting technological innovations. The Light of Internet Expo mirrors China's innovation and development concept.

In the past 20 years, China's Internet has experienced rapid development starting from scratch.

There are now 4 million websites, nearly 700 million Internet users, 1.2 billion mobile phone users, 600 million WeChat and Weibo users producing 30 billion messages daily.

Chinese Internet companies also grew fast in the past decade, and the Internet has contributed to strong economic growth. In 2014, China's Internet economy reached 7% in GDP, more than in the US.

Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu and JingDong have four seats of the top 10 global Internet companies. China remains a veritable network nation, walking step by step.

Chinese Internet companies are tapping the overseas market. We are looking forward to China's strategy of "Internet +" to encourage the global economy, which is in recovery.

Gu Jianjun, post-doctoral of China Institute of Global Development Strategy, Central Compilation & Translation Bureau