Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 6th World Internet Conference (WIC) that opened in east China's water town of Wuzhen on Sunday.
Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, read the letter at the opening ceremony of the conference.
The WIC is one of the highest-level tech events hosted by China in which officials, experts and industry leaders discuss the future of the internet.
It's been 50 years since the internet was born. With 4G becoming a norm and 5G on the rise, people around the world want to know how cyberspace will evolve in the next half century.
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