The 2019 Zhongshan Internet Application Innovation Conference, with the theme of "Embrace 5G, Connect Smart Future", was held in West District on the morning of November 14. The two-day conference was attended by employees of internet organizations, well-known internet enterprises from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, as well as internet companies from Zhongshan.

Experts from Tencent, Huawei, Baidu and other internet giants were invited to deliver speeches. Specially, the conference also invited Sun Yu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an authoritative expert in the development and system design of communication equipment, to give a speech.

The 2019 Zhongshan Internet Development Report edited by the Zhongshan Internet Application Innovation Association was released at the conference.

The report reveals that Zhongshan ranked 30th nationwide in Digital Industry, Digital Culture, Digital Life and Digital Government Affairs, with a total development index of 4.1329.

The development indexes of Zhongshan in these four sectors were 10.9800, 0.5153, 3.1309 and 3.1234, ranking 31st, 49th, 45th and 17th nationwide respectively.

Moreover, the report shows that from 2017 to 2018, Zhongshan net users spent an average of more than 15 hours a day online. Shenwan Town, Henglan Town, South District, West District and Minzhong Town ranked among the top 5 by the average time online, whose netizens spent more than 16 hours a day surfing the internet.

Based on the reasons for internet usage, Zhongshan netizens like doing the following things in turn: Shopping, watching teleplays, searching for information, food, mobile games, stock trading, and love and marriage.

The proportions of netizens aged over 45 and 35 to 45 in Zhongshan are 28% and 29%, and the proportions of netizens aged 25 to 35 and under 25 are 33% and 10% respectively.

In terms of online shopping and shopping information search, the hot search words are classified in order of house prices, decoration, cars and mobile phones.