According to recent reports from the People's Daily and other media, on July 24, the 2025 World Internet Conference Digital Silk Road Development Forum opened in Quanzhou, Fujian. The forum is themed "Digital and Intelligent Maritime Silk Road Welcoming the Future - Working together to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace", focusing on important issues such as the "Belt and Road" digital trade open cooperation, artificial intelligence empowering the high-quality development of the private economy, and the digital transformation and sustainable development of international transportation; more than 600 guests from 49 countries and regions around the world attended the meeting, sharing insights, enhancing consensus, and jointly writing a new chapter in the development of the digital Silk Road.

At present, the global digitalization wave is rushing forward, and digital technology is reshaping the global trade, transportation and economic development model and becoming an important engine to drive economic and social development. It is crucial for countries to strengthen cooperation and work together. The holding of this Digital Silk Road Development Forum not only builds a platform for China and the countries jointly built by the "Belt and Road" to connect digital strategies and promote exchanges and cooperation in various fields, but also shows the world China's openness and responsibility as a major country, and injects strong positive energy into global digital economy and trade cooperation.

Since the "Belt and Road" initiative was proposed, it has gradually become the widest and largest international cooperation platform in the world today. The "Digital Silk Road" is an organic combination of the digital economy and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and is of great significance to promoting the connectivity of countries and regions in jointly building the "Belt and Road" countries and regions and building a community with a shared future in cyberspace. In recent years, China has achieved remarkable results in digital technology and artificial intelligence, and has always been concerned about the development of digital technology in countries including the countries jointly built by the "Belt and Road". Advocating the construction of the "Digital Silk Road", strengthening the docking of digital development strategies with countries jointly built by the "Belt and Road" and promoting exchanges in various fields are new highlights in implementing the global development initiative and promoting cooperation in the "Belt and Road" in the digital era, and it is also an important path for allowing digital technology to better benefit people from all countries around the world.

China is not only an active advocate of the "Digital Silk Road", but also a firm practitioner and a strong guide. As of the end of 2022, China has signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation of the "Digital Silk Road" with 17 countries and established a bilateral cooperation mechanism for the "Silk Road E-commerce" with 23 countries; a large number of digital projects are being implemented on the ancient Silk Road, involving information infrastructure, digital supply chain, intelligent manufacturing, cross-border e-commerce and other fields; it took the lead in launching the "Global Data Security Initiative" and hosting the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference... The holding of each event and the implementation of each project demonstrates China's sincerity and responsibility to promote win-win digital cooperation, and has also become a vivid footnote to the global sharing of digital dividends.

The Silk Road connects ancient and modern times, and numbers connect the future. The construction of the "Digital Silk Road" is not only a exchange of digital technology, but also a resonance with development concepts. It carries the Silk Road spirit of "peaceful cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit and win-win" and also conforms to the development trend of "connection, sharing and win-win" in the digital era. Taking this Digital Silk Road Development Forum as an opportunity, China will continue to work with all countries to promote the opportunities and achievements of global joint construction and sharing of Internet development, and jointly write a new chapter of open, inclusive and inclusive digital civilization.