Open Source, Co-construction and Sharing—A Summary of the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit

Jiangnan water town, drizzle in autumn, beautiful scenery.

Wuzhen, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, this thousand-year-old ancient town once again welcomed guests and friends from all over the world to discuss the booming wave of the digital age. From November 2 to 5, the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit was held as scheduled.

Over four days, approximately 1,800 guests from 138 countries and regions attended the conference. Focusing on the theme of "Open Source, Openness, Co-construction and Sharing - Working Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace," they focused on the development of artificial intelligence, discussed the future trends of digital technology, and worked together to use digital cooperation to promote the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace to a new stage.

Exchange and mutual learning, build consensus, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future in cyberspace to a new stage

"Technological openness, international cooperation and the sharing of innovation results are crucial to building a more inclusive and equitable digital future." At the summit, Nasima Diaz, Director of Nicaragua's National Telecommunications and Post Bureau, said that the World Internet Conference has become an important platform for dialogue, promotion of international cooperation, and consensus building around the digital future of mankind.

"Working together to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace" is the permanent theme of the Wuzhen Summit of the World Internet Conference.

At the main forum of this year’s summit, the World Internet Conference’s “Plan for Co-Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace” was released. Liang Hao, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, introduced the background, support direction, application entities and review mechanism of the joint construction plan. The co-construction plan focuses on supporting three categories of projects: cutting-edge research, conference activities, and publishing and communication.

On November 2, the 2026 "Work Together to Build a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace" high-quality case release and display event was held. "The excellent cases demonstrate the positive response of countries around the world to the concept of building a community with a shared future in cyberspace from multiple perspectives." A guest said after watching the launch event.

Strengthening online cultural exchanges and promoting tolerance and symbiosis of different civilizations are important aspects of promoting joint efforts to build a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

During this year’s summit, the Three New Cultures·CPOPwave Chinese Trendy IP Global Dialogue was held. The "CPOPwave China Trendy IP Overseas Research Report" was released at the event, and the "Top Ten Excellent Overseas Cases" such as "Nezha: The Devil Boy Makes a Difference in the Sea", "Sixteen Voices of Yanyun", "The Legend of the Hidden Sea", as well as "Changhong IP" and "Genshin Impact" were sorted out. Yu Yunquan, deputy director of China International Publishing Group, said that in recent years, the "three new types" of culture have accelerated their overseas expansion, and Chinese original IP is becoming an important window for the world to perceive Chinese culture.

Focus on open source, deepen cooperation, and promote artificial intelligence to better benefit the world

How to deepen international exchanges and cooperation in the digital field and promote digital technologies represented by artificial intelligence to better benefit the people has always been an important topic at the World Internet Conference.

This year's summit focused particularly on the exchange and display of new technologies and new achievements: the "Light of the Internet" expo, with the theme of "Intelligent Internet, Wisdom for the Future", attracted 671 Chinese and foreign enterprises and institutions to participate online and offline; the 2026 World Internet Conference Leading Technology Award received more than 430 entries, involving cutting-edge directions such as brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, quantum computing, spatial information transmission, and high-performance chips.

"Open source, co-construction and sharing" are key words in the theme of this summit. At the summit, “open source” became a hot topic of discussion.

In the "Artificial Intelligence Wuzhen Dialogue" of the main forum, DeepSeek research engineer Gao Xi said that open source can bring together global wisdom and promote technological breakthroughs at a race against time by sharing the latest research results and training methods.

Open source does not mean borderless. Wang Jian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Zhejiang Laboratory, said that how to find a balance between sharing collaboration and risk prevention and control is a common question faced by the global open source community.

How to make artificial intelligence better empower thousands of industries has always been a concern from all walks of life.

"'Artificial Intelligence+' should not just 'add' artificial intelligence to traffic, but should add it to 'engineering innovation and scientific research discovery.' High-end chips, quantum technology, biopharmaceuticals, brain-computer interfaces, and embodied intelligence are the battlefields for artificial intelligence. When these scenarios are implemented, a large number of innovation opportunities will be born." said Zhou Yuan, founder, chairman and CEO of Zhihu at the Digital Economy Forum.

"When agents can independently complete the entire chain of demand understanding, process scheduling, resource matching, and result delivery across systems and subjects, it will fundamentally improve the overall resilience and operational efficiency of the industrial chain and supply chain." Wang Peng, director of China Internet Network Information Center and secretary of the Party Committee, said that China Internet Network Information Center will continue to play the role of the national team of Internet basic resources, strengthen key technology research, build an intelligent Internet support platform, promote the development of relevant standards, and promote industrial implementation and transformation.

At the summit, how to better promote the inclusive development of artificial intelligence and benefit the public was widely mentioned.

"Technology companies should continue to inject artificial intelligence into social networking, payment, employment, public services and other scenarios closely related to people's livelihood, focusing on people's real needs and improving people's experience." said Xi Dan, senior vice president of Tencent Group.

At the Digital Intelligence Health Forum, You Peijun, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s Personal Envoy for China Affairs and Director of the East Asia Regional Representative Office, introduced examples of the International Committee of the Red Cross’s support in developing digital solutions to help patients in war-torn areas recover. He said that the International Committee of the Red Cross is willing to cooperate with Chinese companies and institutions to create inclusive, adaptive and responsible digital solutions to respond to real medical needs.

Improve rules, respond to challenges, and improve cyberspace governance efficiency

Improving cyberspace legal rules, improving the digital governance system, and improving the efficiency of artificial intelligence governance are important contents of this Wuzhen Summit.

"The rule of law is the fundamental guarantee for the steady and long-term development of artificial intelligence." At the online rule of law forum, Wu Tao, deputy director of the Third Civil Trial Division of the Supreme People's Court, said that the development of artificial intelligence technology has posed realistic and profound challenges to the trial concepts, trial capabilities and trial mechanism construction of the people's courts. In this regard, he proposed to increase the supply of rules and stabilize behavioral expectations; persist in case exploration and constantly respond to new demands for technological development; strengthen digital empowerment and continuously improve trial capabilities; and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence justice.

During the summit, the report "Frontier Artificial Intelligence Security and Governance 2026: Risk Perception and Collaborative Governance" was released. According to Zeng Yi, publisher of the report and chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Professional Committee of the World Internet Conference, the report systematically sorts out the risk landscape of cutting-edge artificial intelligence, summarizes governance practices, identifies key governance gaps and weaknesses, and makes recommendations on further strengthening governance coordination among all parties around the world.

"As the wave of artificial intelligence surges, corporate self-discipline, government supervision and evaluation, and social supervision are required to work together in governance to not only maintain the vitality of open innovation, but also consolidate the security foundation." said Yun Xiaochun, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief scientist of Zhongguancun Laboratory.

Although this year’s summit has concluded, more actions are underway to jointly build a community with a shared future in cyberspace.

Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, said that in the future, the World Internet Conference will continue to deepen exchanges and mutual learning, build consensus, gather strength, and build consensus on global digital field and artificial intelligence development governance. It will promote the idea of ​​building a community with a shared future in cyberspace to become more and more popular, help the global digital society and artificial intelligence develop steadily and long-term, and contribute to the fairness, justice, openness and sharing of global cyberspace.

Reporter Jin Xin

(Our reporters Liu Junguo, Shen Shaotie, Dou Hao and Wu Yue participated in the reporting)