Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the grand celebration of 40 years of reform and opening-up to reflect on all that China has accomplished and to implement all that the nation still needs to accomplish Ten foreigners received the China Reform Friendship Medal, recognizing those who have helped China during this historic four-decade transformation My receiving this medal is not so much personal but rather represents how seriously China now takes international communications

The world is facing a severe digital divide — with over 90 percent Internet penetration in highly developed countries and less than 10 percent in the least developed countries — exacerbating global imbalances How is China using the Internet to reduce its own socio-economic imbalances? How can China’s experience be leveraged internationally to help “Bridge the Digital Divide?” These issues were addressed at the fifth World Internet Conference held in Wuzhen, east China’s Zhejiang Province