The Award Ceremony of World Internet Conference Awards for Pionnering Science and Technology is held in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province on Nov 8. [Photo/IC]

The World Internet Conference (WIC) Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology were presented at a ceremony held in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province, on Nov 8.

The event was attended by prominent figures, including Zhuang Rongwen, minister of the Cyberspace Administration of China and chair of the WIC, Francis Gurry, vice-chair of the WIC, Wang Song and Wang Jingtao, vice-ministers of the Cyberspace Administration of China, Ren Xianliang, secretary-general of the WIC, Ke Jixin, vice-governor of Zhejiang, and Zhang Xuewei, vice-chairman of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, among others.

In line with the theme of the WIC Wuzhen Summit this year - "Creating an Inclusive and Resilient Digital World Beneficial to All -- Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace" - the award ceremony served as an international platform for showcasing, exchanging, and promoting the world's pioneering internet scientific and technological achievements. Fifteen projects of international representation won the award.

In addition, the WIC continued to present commemorative certificates of Excellence in Organization to the units that demonstrated outstanding performance in the organization of candidate projects submission, including the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mobile Communications Group Co Ltd, China Telecom Corporation Limited, China United Network Communications Group Corporation Limited, and Tsinghua University.

The release of world leading internet scientific and technological achievements has been held for seven consecutive years and has played a significant role in encouraging scientific and technological innovation and advocating technological exchanges and cooperation.

This year, the event has been comprehensively upgraded into the WIC Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology and featured a grand ceremony to honor the remarkable contributions made by internet players in advancing internet scientific and technological achievements throughout the year, in a bid to build an innovative display platform of higher standard.

Winners of WIC Awards for Pioneering Science and Technology 

Key Technology

1. The World's First 5G Advanced-Ready Modem-RF System

-- Qualcomm Wireless Communication Technologies

2. The Key Technologies of Knowledge-enhanced Large Language Model

-- BAIDU

3. Technological Innovation and Industrial Applications of 4G-5G Co-construction and Sharing

-- China Telecom Corporation Limited and China United Network Communications Group Corporation Limited

4. All-Optical Infrastructure Innovation and Application of China Unicom

-- China Unicom and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

5. Research and Application of Key Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) Technologies

-- China Information and Communication Technology Group Co., Ltd. (CICT), the National Engineering Research Center of Mobile Communications and Vehicular Networks, CICT Connected and Intelligent Technologies Co., Ltd., Morningcore Holding Co., Ltd. and DT LinkTester Technology Co., Ltd.

6. IBM watsonx: The Generative AI for Business

-- International Business Machines Corporation

7. GaussDB: Distributed Database

-- Tsinghua University, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd.

8. IIoT WIA-PA Technology and System of Intelligent Oilfield

-- The Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Daqing Oilfield of the CNPC, Liaohe Oilfield of the CNPC and Chinese Academy of Sciences-ALLWIN Technology Co., LTD.

9. Research and Development and Industrialization of Efficient, Reliable Distributed Content and Proactive Defense Technologies for Large-scale Cloud-network Convergence Systems

-- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wangsu Science and Technology Co., Ltd., Qi'anxin Group Co., Ltd., Kelai Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Pengyuejinghong Information Technology Development Co., Ltd.

Basic Research

1. Multi-Level Multi-Type Knowledge Fused Deep Learning Fundamental Methods for Natural Languages

-- Tsinghua University and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

2. Hierarchical Content Perception of Visual Media

-- Beijing Jiaotong University and Nankai University

3. Research on High-Efficiency Mechanisms in 5G Mobile Communication System

-- Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design

Engineering Research and Development

1. ARGO: Autonomous Inspection of Rolling Stocks

-- Next Generation Robotics Company

2. Tencent AIMIS Medical Imaging Platform of Digital Intelligence

-- Tencent Healthcare (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

3. Kaspersky Automotive Secure Gateway

-- Kaspersky