Intelligence, Green, Innovation... Let's Go See the "Smart Brain" of Xiong'an, the "City of the Future" ->New Area | Xiong'an | Intelligence
Xiong'an New Area is a "city of the future" and also a testing ground for technological innovation. In the process of constructing Xiong'an New Area with high standards and quality, innovation has always been a top priority. We are striving to create a new era of innovation highlands and entrepreneurial hotspots here. The Xiong'an City Computing Center is known as the "urban brain", which provides data support for the high-level management of Xiong'an New Area.
Entering the Xiong'an City Computing Center, staff are optimizing and debugging the newly installed server. These servers are connected to every sensor in Xiong'an New Area, providing a continuous stream of computing power for this "future city".
Yuan Xiaodong, Chief Technical Officer of China Xiongan Group Xiongan Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd.: We have a production capacity of 3600 information technology racks. Currently, we have built more than 530 racks in the first phase. Taking Rongdong area as an example, we have deployed 19 racks per square kilometer 80000 IoT sensors, like human nerve endings, their perception system can clearly record every minute and second of the city's growth process in the form of data.
The Xiong'an Urban Computing Center is an important infrastructure for the digital construction and development of the new area. It is the "eye" of the digital city, the "brain" of the intelligent city, and the "core" of the ecological city. From smart transportation to smart services, the high-level management of Xiong'an New Area relies on the powerful data support of the computing center.
Yuan Xiaodong, Chief Technical Officer of China Xiongan Group Xiongan Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd.: We can clearly depict the pipeline below a certain road section on a flat surface, so that we will not affect other pipelines during the construction process. We can accurately locate pipelines, including the burial of new pipelines in the future. Through this system, we can conduct some rehearsals and collision tests, which improves the efficiency of pipeline management, construction, and operation throughout the city.
In addition, the urban computing center has also integrated many information management systems, involving multiple aspects such as the construction of the Xiong'an New Area project, energy supply, and intelligent management of the Internet of Things. At the same time, its edge computing, supercomputing and cloud computing facilities will provide network, computing and storage services for the big data, blockchain, Internet of Things, etc. of the entire digital twin city, and provide important support for building a digital city and creating "Xiong'an on the cloud".
Ma Qinghui, Deputy General Manager of China Xiongan Group Digital City Technology Co., Ltd.: We have a total of 136 business systems in Xiongan, of which 54 have already been adapted and migrated. The remaining systems will be fully applied and migrated in the third quarter of this year, and all of these business systems will be running on Xiongan Cloud or supercomputing centers.
Stimulating new application scenarios and accelerating the clustering of innovative industries
Gathering innovative elements, building innovation platforms, and optimizing the innovation ecosystem. The construction of Xiong'an New Area provides a wide range of application scenarios for technological innovation. At the same time, a sound policy support system has also accelerated the gathering of innovative enterprises in Xiong'an New Area.
In the conference room of China Xiongan Group, a corporate project roadshow is underway. From photovoltaic materials, energy storage equipment, to commercial services for meteorological data... Many of the technologies and projects introduced in the roadshow are currently the most cutting-edge technological applications.
Zhang Da, the person in charge of the enterprise participating in the project roadshow: Xiong'an, as a "benchmark city", has its own positioning in green construction and sponge city. The business model behind the products we promote is also in line with the development positioning of Xiong'an city. So I think we should have a lot of cooperation with the local community in the next step.
Wang Min, the person in charge of the enterprise participating in the project roadshow: Firstly, Xiong'an New Area has very favorable policy support for the development of our enterprise. Secondly, Xiong'an can provide us with key talents for enterprise development. So this is also a basic guarantee for enterprises to settle in Xiong'an.
In addition to representatives from enterprises, representatives from venture capital institutions also participated in discussions and exchanges during the roadshow, discovering more new technology application scenarios and helping enterprises invest and land in Xiong'an New Area. At present, multiple projects that have completed roadshows have begun to implement protocol docking work.
Wang Wei, Deputy General Manager of China Xiongan Group: We need to identify new growth points, especially the integration of our technology and market. We need these innovative entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs who are looking for opportunities to create application scenarios to put their current technology and capabilities in Xiongan. By further optimizing and developing the Xiong'an scenario, we aim to spread it to all of China and the world.
In order to make innovative enterprises willing to come, stay and develop well, Xiong'an New Area also launched an industrial Internet platform to build a bridge between the government, enterprises and financial institutions; Establish a "Xiong'an Technology Innovation Special Award" to support innovation entities to carry out technological breakthroughs, introduce high-end talents, and build innovation and entrepreneurship platforms based on Xiong'an.
The 2022 Big Data Research Report of Xiong'an New Area shows that technology innovation enterprises are accelerating their agglomeration in Xiong'an New Area. As of the end of 2022, the number of science and technology innovation enterprises in Xiong'an New Area has increased by 21% year-on-year, and the number of enterprise patent applications has increased by 47.2% year-on-year.
Shang Bin, Deputy Director of the Reform and Development Bureau of Xiong'an New Area: The industrial development of Xiong'an New Area focuses on collaborative innovation, focuses on promoting deep integration of the industrial chain and innovation chain, and has laid out a number of key laboratories. Currently, 219 high-tech enterprises have landed in Xiong'an.
Connecting the Channel for Technology Achievement Transformation from Innovation Chain to Industry Chain
Currently, the focus of work in Xiong'an New Area has shifted towards high-quality construction, high-level management, and high-quality development. How to enable the birth and transformation of more cutting-edge technological innovation achievements here, ultimately driving industrial development?
Entering the Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huang Wuling is leading the team to conduct digital traffic experiments. Simulated vehicles in motion can automatically recognize various traffic signs such as signal lights and pedestrian crossings. This is a result of autonomous driving technology developed by researchers based on the road traffic in Xiong'an New Area.
Huang Wuling, researcher of Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Xiong'an New Area has some support from our smart city, digital transportation, including digital roads, and good infrastructure. Then the government can establish some digital transportation laboratories, "Xiong'an Special Project", and some project support that can effectively focus on the algorithm needs of application scenarios. We can quickly connect and implement with downstream application scenarios, such as enterprises. This can quickly drive the entire R&D to industry and application chain, and effectively serve the development of Xiong'an's smart transportation.
At present, the Huang Wuling team is coordinating with relevant enterprises to try to apply autonomous driving technology to logistics transportation. Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, co founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Hebei Province, is committed to promoting the implementation and transformation of key core technologies in Xiong'an New Area, and building an incubator leading the development of high-tech industries in Xiong'an New Area. At present, Xiongan Innovation Institute has established multiple research platforms such as the Communication Photon Integrated Chip Laboratory, attracting more than 100 talents of various types.
Fu Mengbo, senior engineer of Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: The project we are doing now is a national key research and development plan led by Xiong'an Innovation Research Institute. The chip we are currently making has a speed increase of more than four to five times compared to the 4G aspect that is currently being applied in 5G or future 5.5G or 6G applications.
From basic research to product commercialization, Xiong'an New Area focuses on promoting deep integration of the innovation chain and industrial chain, deploying innovation chains around the industrial chain, increasing the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and promoting the development of high-tech industries.
Xu Menghua, Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Service Center in Xiong'an New Area: With the "Xiong'an Special Project" as the starting point, we have implemented over 130 million yuan in national funding for the first batch of 27 scientific research tasks organized in 2022, focusing on the direction of new generation information technology. At the same time, the number of enterprises enjoying the additional deduction of research and development expenses reached 313, a year-on-year increase of over 79%. The transaction volume of technology contracts reached 9.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of over 34%.
According to the plan, in August this year, a number of State Key Laboratory will settle in Xiong'an New Area. Widely utilizing advanced science and technology, focusing on strengthening the construction of scientific and technological innovation capabilities, and increasing the transformation of scientific and technological achievements... Intelligence, green, and innovation have become the beautiful business card of Xiong'an New Area.