Experts: China has a key role in helping bridge internet divide

China's unique experience in dealing with the digital divide is important to the world, as the country has been successful in promoting the internet in less-developed areas and can bring that insight to other countries and economies, a veteran industry expert said.

"China is unique in the sense that it has several hundred million people in the cities where they master digital technologies, in many cases, pioneering in the world. But there are also several in rural, less developed areas, more than you can think of, who are embracing the most up-to-date technologies to better their lives," said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, in an interview with China Daily during the Fifth World Internet Conference on Wednesday.

"China can play a special role because when you deal with concepts like digital divide, where you have areas that have enormous penetration and enormous sophistication and other areas that do not, like the situation on a global scale and with some countries, you can learn from China's past experiences because the country was that way," Kuhn said.