Gong Fengmin, co-founder of Cyphort and former chief security officer of FireEye, said he was most excited at Xi Jinping's remarks that the cooperation is an imperative for the Internet industry to inter-connect, innovate and develop. He said this is particularly true for Internet security industry.
As Internet-based technology moves more diversified information more rapidly across the world, people begin to spend more of their time in the intellectual world, said a Chinese entrepreneur at the Second World Internet Conference on Wednesday.
The Internet is still evolving and its boundaries are constantly in flux. The conference is putting the global governance and boundaries of the Internet centre stage. The debate about the governance of the Internet is not only important, but necessary.
The comment made by President Xi Jinping at the 2nd World Internet Conference that the international community should respect the "Internet sovereignty" of individual countries were echoed by researchers and business leaders, who believe it is necessary that Internet must have an order and must be managed.
Xu said if the territorial aggression is a kind of invasion, then the aggression on Internet sovereignty must be an invasion. It is necessary that Internet must have an order and must be managed.
Young people have become the main force of Internet development both in China and the United States, said an official of Cyberspace Administration of China.
Many officials engaged in network affairs and scholars specializing in cyberspace from Western countries all agree Internet sovereignty in private, but they cannot advocate sovereignty of Internet in public due to the power of Western media, said Lu Chuanying, assistant researcher from the global governance studies department under Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.
Chinese President Xi Jinping laid out his vision for the future of the Internet while delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Second World Internet Conference (WIC2015) on Wednesday.
Gurpreet Singh, Asia president of the Mobile Internet Great Wall Club, said what President Xi Jinping has mentioned is very important after hearing President Xi's speech at the Second World Internet Conference in East China's Wuzhen on Wednesday.
China values the push Internet will provide to the education sector and the influence it will have on youths' growth, said Du Zhanyuan.
Deng Feng, Founding Managing Director of Northern light Venture Capital, said the development of Internet technology will bring great opportunities to venture capital firms.
China, the country with the largest online population, must persist with efforts to develop technology for the global Internet and communications market, a top United Nations officials said.