From November 2 to 5, the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will be held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. This year is the 13th year that the summit has been held in Wuzhen, and there are many new sections, new results, and new highlights. The reporter from the main station in Wuzhen takes everyone to unlock this technology event in the water town in advance.
The "Light of the Internet" Expo opens tomorrow, and more than 20 new products will make their global debut.
CCTV reporter Wang Li: Speaking of Wuzhen, many people’s first impression is of white walls, black tiles, small bridges and flowing water. It is a gentle water town in the south of the Yangtze River. Standing here today, I can intuitively feel that the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference is turning this small water town into a digital city where innovation can be seen and the future can be touched.
Tomorrow, the "Light of the Internet" Expo, an important supporting activity of the summit, will be officially launched and will last until the 5th. This time, 670 Chinese and foreign companies from 54 countries and regions participated in the exhibition, bringing about 1,000 technological achievements, of which more than 20 new products will make their global debut here.
For the first time, 6G and other technological innovation achievements will be displayed in a centralized manner.
The exhibition hall includes two major exhibition halls: Innovation Development Hall and Super Experience Hall. In the Innovation and Development Hall, a large number of hard-core technologies will be unveiled collectively. One of the highlights here this year is that technological innovations such as 6G will be displayed for the first time at this expo. What exactly is 6G? How far is it from ordinary life? You can find the answer up close here. In addition, AI is also the protagonist of this expo. How will we live and travel in the future? What else can AI do for us? Many answers are also hidden in the exhibition hall.
Watch robots working and experience the daily life of AI in the future.
After seeing the hard-core cutting-edge technologies, you can also go to the Super Experience Center to "arrange" your future life in advance. Here, you can see robots "going to work", making beds and cooking on the spot... This year, a digital smart consumer market will be launched for the first time. More than 80 companies will bring more than 130 special new products. Audiences can experience and purchase on-site, and take the future life home with them. There is also the artificial intelligence "Jia" Nianhua with local characteristics, which brings together the latest domestic AI achievements and local products made by Jiaxing Intelligent Manufacturing into the five major scenarios of future production and life.
The forum was packed with useful information, and popular IPs were unveiled at the Puyuan venue.
The forum of this summit is also full of gold content. In addition to the main forum, 27 sub-forums were also held, the number reaching a new high in recent years. Topics cover hot topics such as robotics and artificial intelligence, digital education, and talent development.
Another surprise is the expansion of the venue this year. In addition to the main venue of Wuzhen, Puyuan Scenic Area has also officially joined the summit and become a new branch venue. Popular IPs from games, animations, and film and television dramas will all be unveiled in Puyuan, where technology and trendy culture will collide.
This year's Internet Conference is open to the public. At present, the "Wuzhen Summit Audience Reservation Platform" mini program has been officially launched. Audiences can make reservations through the mini program according to their needs. This also means that this Internet event, which was once biased towards professional circles, is now opening its doors to the public and truly turning the Internet event into an event for everyone.
The summit is full of technology and the sightseeing connections are intelligent.
The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit is about to open. This grand event that brings together cutting-edge digital technologies continues to unleash the innovation-driven effect. In Tongxiang, where Wuzhen is located, a large number of intelligent driving companies have accelerated their growth. This year, Tongxiang’s locally produced self-driving shuttle buses and intelligent driving technology will also be unveiled at the summit.
CCTV reporter Li Kejing: The car next to me is the sightseeing shuttle bus for the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference. Not only is it designed and manufactured locally in Wuzhen, but what’s even more technological is that it is also a driverless car.
There is a safety officer in the carriage. Open the mobile app, select the starting point and end point, and the route will be automatically planned. The vehicle will start on its own and transport passengers to the destinations of various venues of the Wuzhen Summit.
Tang Kaiqiang, the person in charge of an unmanned vehicle manufacturer: When the vehicle encounters an emergency, the safety officer can take braking measures.
The black cylinder on the head of the car is the main radar. There is a blind-filling radar at the front and rear, like two "sentinels". There are also 13 "little eyes" - cameras, responsible for operational monitoring and smart driving identification.
In addition to intelligent sightseeing connections, in addition to the conference venues, reporters also saw unmanned retail vehicles that also serve the conference. They can freely travel between various venues at walking speed and stop to sell drinks to customers just by saying hello.
How to ensure the safety of cars without driverless driving? The reporter saw that in the factory testing ground covering an area of 20 acres, 20 unmanned vehicles are tested 24 hours a day every day.
Tang Kaiqiang: Before each of our new cars is launched on the market, it needs to run 50,000 kilometers in the proving ground. If you run 300 kilometers every day, it will take 5 to 6 months to complete. Moreover, these 50,000 kilometers are not flat roads. There are 18 kinds of road conditions in the test site, such as cobblestone roads, wading roads, S-shaped bends, including sloped and undulating roads.
The person in charge of the company told us that the company settled in Tongxiang in 2023 and has served the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference for three consecutive years. It has been committed to the research and development and manufacturing of smart skateboard chassis and functional unmanned vehicles. Last year, the company's revenue exceeded 100 million yuan, and orders are currently scheduled for next year. In recent years, as the dividends from Wuzhen’s World Internet Conference Summit have taken root, a number of upstream and downstream companies in the electric smart industry chain have accelerated their rise. At a company that provides intelligent driving system solutions less than 10 kilometers away from the conference venue, we saw a new generation of 4D imaging millimeter-wave radar that will be displayed at the Wuzhen Summit, which can help intelligent driving vehicles identify low roadblocks, static obstacles, high-altitude road signs, and stabilize rain, fog, and dust.
Zhang Lin, the person in charge of an intelligent driving system supply company: The radars we saw in the past were more planar things, but today’s radars see a truly three-dimensional and speedy information. It is not affected by rain, wind, or fog, and can even penetrate certain obstacles.
This company was founded ten years ago in Wuzhen, Tongxiang, relying on the opportunity of the World Internet Conference. Currently, the smart driving solutions provided by the company have reached the leading domestic market share in third-party smart driving.
Zhang Lin: I attended the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen for the first time in 2016, where I connected with global customers, industry chain partners, and many senior talents. Starting in Tongxiang, we have taken root more and more deeply in Wuzhen. We have cumulatively produced and delivered more than 5 million pieces of various smart auto parts, which we are very proud of.
The robot 5G-A works together to ensure that the work has a high AI content.
As an important platform for global digital technology exchanges, the security work of this summit is also very rich in AI content. Traffic police, communications, electric power and other departments have applied new Internet technologies to the entire process of traffic guidance, network operation and maintenance, and power supply, using digital and intelligent means to ensure that the conference is held smoothly and orderly.
Entering Wuzhen, several traffic management robots are maintaining traffic order at the intersection. They can be linked with the signal lights at the intersection, direct the vehicles to pass in an orderly manner according to the changes in the signal lights, and guide non-motorized vehicles and pedestrians to pass the intersection safely.
Song Yang, deputy captain of the Traffic Management Brigade of Tongxiang Public Security Bureau, Zhejiang Province: Unmanned vehicles and robots cooperate with intersection lights. At the same time, it is also a mechanism for collaboration between these unmanned devices. With this unmanned police force, scientific decision-making and police deployment can be carried out. Such two-way interaction can significantly improve management efficiency and service quality.
In the power distribution room of the Internet Light Expo, staff in the power supply department used AI glasses to compress thousands of lines into a digital inspection menu. The staff only need to follow the guidelines to inspect item by item and can easily deal with it. In addition, inspection robot dogs and humanoid robots also play an important role in places with high voltage.
Liu Junnan, a power maintenance staff member at the Wuzhen Summit of the State Grid Tongxiang Power Supply Company: Robot dogs and robots are used to replace manual labor in completing some high-intensity, repetitive tasks that previously had to be performed on-site. They are mainly responsible for inspections and infrared temperature measurement of power maintenance equipment in substations, making it more efficient and better ensuring reliable power supply for the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference.
During the conference, in addition to transportation, power and other support being prepared, network communication support was also carried out in an orderly manner. At present, the entire Wuzhen area has deployed a 5G-A super uplink communication network, which can simultaneously meet the network needs of the media for 4K live broadcast, AI tours of scenic spots, and large-bandwidth data transmission of embodied intelligent robots.
Dai Shiyu, a staff member of the Network Department of Zhejiang Mobile Jiaxing Branch: After deploying 5G-A network capabilities, the concurrent wireless terminal capacity of the venue has increased by about 2.5 times compared with before. In particular, the Light of the Internet Pavilion can support about 10,000 people using mobile phones and other wireless terminals for communication and transmission at the same time.
