John Hoffman, CEO of GSMA Ltd, and Zhao Houlin, former secretary-general of International Telecommunication Union, also attended and addressed the forum.

Mohamed Ben Amor, director general of Arab ICT Organization; Ke Ruiwen, chairman of China Telecom Corporation Ltd; Li Zixue, chairman of ZTE Corporation; Sanjay Mehrotra, president and CEO of Micron Technology; Liu Jun, executive vice-president of Lenovo; Sunil Patil, vice-president of Product Management of Qualcomm Technologies Inc, and high-level representatives from other tech corporations and organizations including the Intel and Ericsson, spoke at the forum, with nearly 200 guests from around the world in attendance.

They expressed their hope that the WIC will play a greater role in such areas as computing power network, providing a platform for all parties to jointly promote the building and implementation of computing power network, accelerating digital transformation, and enabling digital technology to better benefit humanity.

The WIC said that it will continue to leverage its role as a global platform for exchange and cooperation in cyberspace, build consensus on governance and development in the digital field, and promote the building of a community with a shared future in cyberspace.