Pictures show how internet growth helped the little guy

While the recent Fifth World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang province, showed off the world's most cutting-edge online technologies, a photo exhibition, which ran concurrently with the event offered a glimpse into how such developments have benefited the users.

There were 100 photos in total, through the display of which, ordinary people got to step into the spotlight and see how their lives have been changed by technology.

As the name of the exhibition - Warmth - suggested, the pictures, together with the stories behind them warmed the hearts of those hurrying past in the bitter wind and rain of Wuzhen.