New Ideas Leading a New Journey: Promoting Digital Infrastructure Construction and Accelerating Digital Economy Development General Secretary | Infrastructure | Digital
Since the beginning of this year, China has vigorously promoted the systematic development and large-scale deployment of digital infrastructure, injecting strong impetus into high-quality economic development.
Since the beginning of this year, nearly 70 new data centers have been built in 8 national computing hubs of China's "East Calculation and West Calculation" project. Among them, the construction scale of new data centers in the western region has doubled compared to the same period last year. As a result, the national computing network architecture has taken shape, and new breakthroughs have been continuously made in digital infrastructure construction.
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Since the beginning of this year, measures have been taken from the central to local levels to systematically promote the construction of digital infrastructure in order to build a solid foundation for the development of the information age. This is the world's first commercial underwater data center successfully launched and operated by China in Hainan not long ago. Compared with traditional land-based data centers, underwater data centers not only consume less energy and save land, but also have a computing power density 5-7 times that of traditional land-based data centers.
Not only data centers, but also 5G, industrial Internet, and data element markets are becoming key construction projects promoted by various regions. Qingdao, Shandong, proposed to focus on cultivating ten major platform economic ecosystems, including industrial Internet, and released more than 1000 new industrial empowerment scenarios this year; Shanghai has launched the construction of an international data exchange board, exploring new mechanisms for cross-border and two-way data flow; Anhui proposes to accelerate the construction of data center clusters in Wuhu; Fujian is deepening the reform of the data element market and accelerating the construction of an integrated public data system throughout the province.
Driven by a series of policies, China's network infrastructure has achieved rapid development since the beginning of this year. As of the end of May, the total number of 5G base stations in China reached 2.844 million; The rapid development of the mobile Internet of Things has led the world's major economies to achieve more "things" connections than "people" connections; The total number of IPv6 address resources in the sixth version of Internet Protocol ranks first in the world; The total scale of national data centers exceeds 6.5 million standard racks; The computing infrastructure has reached a world leading level.
Digital infrastructure is accelerating the empowerment of thousands of industries. There are more than 240 industrial Internet platforms with certain regional and industrial influence in China, and more than 81 million key platforms connect equipment; The digitalization and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional infrastructure such as transportation, energy, and water conservancy are constantly accelerating; New applications, scenarios, and formats continue to emerge, accelerating the transformation of people's lives.
