WIC host province to seize the chance of Internet

Yuan Jiajun at the?press conference on Friday. [Photo/people.com.cn]

Yuan Jiajun, executive vice governor of Zhejiang province World Internet Conference's (WIC) said on Friday that Zhejiang has benefited a lot from the concluded conference and the local Internet enterprises have shown the world their competitiveness.

At closing ceremony's press conference, Yuan said 80 enterprises of the 258 participants at the Light of the Internet Expo on Thursday came from Zhejiang.

"Zhejiang will take advantage of the WIC to accelerate innovative development of the Internet industry and the information-based economy in our province," Yuan said at the press conference.

"By the end of 2014, the province had 24,000 industrial robots in use, accounting for 15 percent of the national total; this year, another 10,000 robots will be added and by 2020 there will be 55,000 new robots added annually to various manufacturing sectors."

The Ancient city of Wuzhen has become more intelligent in the second year as host city. The tour attraction as home of fish and rice showed the world its other side – mobile APP and conference cloud services everywhere at the WIC, even an Internet medical service.

According Yuan, the operating revenue of the provincial-level information industry gained an annual increase of 13.1 percent in the first ten months of the year, compared with that of the GDP increase of eight percent. The province's information service sector contributed 67.3 percent of the service industry revenue from January to October.

"Zhejiang will continue to support development of big data industry and intelligent manufacturing," Yuan said.

Zhejiang announced in October it will establish a provincial government data base. More than 1.76 million users have registered to the provincial government's administrative service network. The service will be further promoted to towns and villages.

Zhejiang's information development in numbers