By WU JING LU YE

CHEN PENGYU

The 3rd World Internet Conference is on from November 16 to November 18 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province. Themed with “Innovation-Driven Internet Development for the Benefit of All—Building a Community of Common Future in Cyberspace”, the meeting will demonstrate the Internet achievements of China and the world. It is believed that since 1994, when China was first connected to the Internet, attributed to the beneficial policies, the Internet vigorously developed in the past 22 years, proliferating the leaping development of economy, society, and culture, as well as people’s living conditions.

Technology makes

life more convenient

At the moment, the mobile Internet is changing the way people live and work.

The 67-year-old resident of Wuzhen, Feng Peixiang, has an eye-congestion, shedding tears in the wind.

She came to a senior house 200 meters away from her house. By sitting in front of the HD camera, she was diagnosed by Dr. Tong Lin on the other end of the camera in the Hangzhou Run Run Shaw’s Hospital. Soon, a diagnostic scheme was prescribed.

This is the most direct effect brought by the Internet+. “People used to go to the hospital for all illness, big or small. But now they can enjoy the medical resources in Hangzhou conveniently,” said Feng

Peixiang.

science fictions

come true

Unmanned vehicles, virtual friends, brain-machine interface...the Internet technology is updating every day. The once seemingly unreachable science fictions are gradually coming true.

On the extension of the Wuzhen Ziye road, 17 blue-and-white-alternate-colored Baidu unmanned cars are lined up. During the World Internet Conference, the Baidu unmanned vehicles have finished for the first time the L4 self-driving technology without any intervention in the fully open city roads under complex road conditions.

The science and technology have the city evolve into the smart era. On the Light of Internet exposition, Hangzhou demonstrated its scheme for being a smart and habitable city on the basis of the Big Data of the urban traffic.

The so-called “digital brain of the city” was developed by the Hangzhou government jointly with 13 companies. Kernelled with Ali’s cloud ET technology, it can conduct a real-time analysis on the whole city so as to automatically allocate public resources and modify city operation problems. It will be eventually evolved into an artificial intelligence regulation system of the city.

In September 2016, the city traffic brain module was put into use on the Shixin Road, Xiaoshan district of Hangzhou. The preliminary test data showed that, through the intelligent control over the traffic lights, the traffic speed increased by 3% to 5% averagely, and up to 11% percent in some road sections.