Zhou Shuchun, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, delivers a speech at a ministerial forum themed "Bridging the Digital Divide" in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province on Nov 8, which serves as a sub-forum of the fifth World Internet Conference. [Photo by Xu Jingxing /chinadaily.com.cn]

Zhou Shuchun, publisher and editor-in-chief of China Daily, said in his speech that in accordance with President Xi’s proposal of "taking common progress as the driving force and taking win-win as the goal", the "digital divide" should be eliminated in promoting building "a community with a shared future for mankind" to change the "new variable" of the unbalanced development of the internet into a "new increment" in eliminating the gap between rich and poor.

Zhou said the "digital divide" should be bridged in the process of maintaining and deepening economic globalization and the formation of a global digital market should be promoted to give the digital economy a new momentum in the new stage of economic globalization.

In addition, the "digital divide" should be bridged in promoting the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative to let the "Digital Silk Road" become a road to benefit the people of all countries, Zhou added.