[Yangtze River Delta Daily] There is new news about Nantong New Airport, “Shanghai’s Third Airport”!
1. Nantong New Airport is currently under construction
According to the official WeChat information pushed by Shanghai Airport Group on the evening of June 26, Shanghai Airport Group officially confirmed that it had signed a cooperation agreement with Nantong Municipal Government to build Nantong New Airport, planning and building Nantong New Airport, which will become an important part of Shanghai International Aviation Hub. This means that the positioning of Nantong New Airport as "Shanghai's Third Airport" is clearer.
As early as February last year, public information from the Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Administration showed that Shanghai Airport Group and Nantong Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd. would establish a new joint venture to engage in the investment, construction and operation of civil airports.
2. The Yangtze River Delta Computing Power Dispatching Center was launched in Suzhou
On June 26, the "East Data West Computing" Yangtze River Delta Computing Power Dispatch Center was officially put into use, and the first batch of racks in the intelligent computing center were officially lit up.
The "East Data West Computing" Yangtze River Delta Computing Power Dispatch Center is located in the Yangtze River Delta Internet Innovation Demonstration Base in Wujiang District. It is one of the eight hub nodes of the "East Data West Computing" national integrated computing power network.
After it is officially put into use, it will be built into a distributed computing infrastructure that integrates cloud and intelligence, training and push, and collaborates with cloud, network, and edge. It will realize the intensive supply and unified scheduling of computing resources, and provide intelligent computing support for digital industries such as artificial intelligence, intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine, digital finance, smart medical care, low-altitude economy, etc. in Suzhou, the Yangtze River Delta and even the whole country, and promote the formation and development of new quality productivity.
At present, the "East Data West Computing" Yangtze River Delta computing power dispatching center has been connected to the national integrated computing power network to create a one-millisecond low-latency urban computing power network.
3. Ding Xuexiang from Nantong has been appointed as the director of the Central Science and Technology Committee
According to reports, the second plenary session of the National Science and Technology Conference and the two academies' conference was held in Beijing on the morning of June 25. Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Central Science and Technology Commission, attended the meeting and delivered a summary speech.
This is the first time that Ding Xuexiang has appeared in public as the "Director of the Central Science and Technology Commission."