Li Yan, deputy director of the Institute of Information Security and Social Development at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, gave a speech in Beijing on July 12, 2017. [Photo by Song Jingli/chinadaily.com.cn]

"Never belittle the power of technologies and cognition. In ten years, nobody can see what changes the internet could bring and no one can predict what new norms technologies would offer.

"It is unpredictable whether there will be revolutionary changes in the structure of internet governance."

Li Yan, deputy director of Institute of Information Security and Social Development at China Institute of Contemporary International Relations