[Zhang Xiangchen, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization: future trade will be digital]-- Zhang Xiangchen, deputy director-general of the World Trade Organization, said on the 2023 Tsinghua Wudaokou Global Financial Forum on 20 May that the future trade will be digital. He believes that digitization has become a major technical factor affecting international trade. In the past, technological reform was mechanical and electronic, but now it is digital technology. Digital technology is having a significant impact on the economy and society as a whole. Digitization has been changing the traditional way of trade in goods and services, creating a lot of new products and new ways of trading.