All the venues of the second Digital China Summit shall be fully covered by a 5G network and WIFI signals. [Photo/Xinhua]

The second edition of Digital China Summit is slated to be held in Fuzhou, capital city of East China's Fujian province from May 6 to 8. The conference will have the following highlights, according to a press briefing on April 25.

The summit is set to be elevated to a platform for collecting global strengths in building a digital China, with Larger scale and wider attendance.

According to the organizing committee, the number of attending guests will expand from 800 to 1,500 this year while the exhibition area will grow to 60,000 square meters from the original 40,000 square meters.

All the provinces and municipalities in China have signed for the exhibition to be held on the sidelines of the conference. The provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu and Guizhou, where the digital economy sustains rapid growth, have also designated guests of honor.

150-plus businesses plan to release their new products or techs during the meeting, such as Chinese phone maker ZTE who will debut its flagship 5G cellphone in China.

Meanwhile, a collective signing ceremony of 40 projects on digital economy is set to be held amid the conference.

All the major venues will be covered by a 5G network and wifi signals, according to Huang Shijing, deputy general manager of the Digital China Conference and Exhibition Center.

The scale of Fujian's digital economy record 1.42 trillion yuan in 2018, ranking it the seventh place nationwide, as per a white paper on China digital economic development and employment recently released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.

The figure also indicates year-on-year growth of 22.39 percent, second fastest across the country, just following Guizhou province.