Global digital summit to be held in Kunming in May

The Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, also the 2019 Yunnan International Smart Tourism Conference, will be held in Kunming, Yunnan Province from May 21 to 23, according to a news release in Beijing on March 29.

The news release in Beijing on March 29

The Tencent digital summit aims to link consumer-oriented networks to industrial web portals and find out the latest developments in digital economy, so as to create an inclusive digital ecosystem for businesses, partners, developers and the general public. 

The summit will consist of the opening meeting, the sub-forums, and an exhibition on digital ecology. Starting in Kunming, the summit will be thereafter held in turn in other Chinese cities to boost digital economy. 

Meanwhile, the 2019 Yunnan International Smart Tourism Conference will be jointly hosted by Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Kunming Municipal Government, and Tencent, a Chinese internet giant.

With theme of "Intelligence Makes Life Better", the smart tourism conference will be undertaken by Yunnan Tourism Planning Institute, Kunming Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and Yunnan Tengyun Information Company Ltd..

At the conference, Yunnan will tell its efforts in digitalization and share its stories of success in developing smart tourism. New advancements in smart tourism worldwide will be released.

Also, a 30,000-square-meter exhibiting area will be designated at the conference to showcase cultural tourist destinations, tourism technologies, international exchanges, intangible heritages, and creative cultural products.

Reporting by Wang Huan (Yunnan Daily); trans-editing by Wang Shixue