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new infrastructure has entered a new stage of scientific layout
Our reporter Huang Xin
The new infrastructure has ushered in a new policy.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Office of Cyberspace Affairs and other eight departments have jointly issued the "Three-year Action Plan for the Construction of New Internet of Things Infrastructure (2021-2023)", which proposed that by the end of 2023, a new Internet of Things infrastructure will be initially established in major cities in China, and the society will be modernized. , The foundation for the digital transformation of industries and the upgrading of people's livelihood consumption is more stable.
The executive meeting of the State Council held in September proposed that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, scientific layout and promotion of the construction of new infrastructure based on information networks and driven by technological innovation.
This is not the first time the central government has emphasized new infrastructure.
How is this time different from the past?
Why emphasize on information network as the foundation and technological innovation as the driving force?
How to make a scientific layout?
A reporter from the Economic Daily interviewed relevant experts.
Highlight the digital economy
Pu Songtao, deputy director of the China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute, believes that the concept of "new infrastructure" is not the first time that the concept of "new infrastructure" has been proposed. It can be traced back to the 2018 Central Economic Conference.
The executive meeting of the State Council clarified that the focus of new infrastructure construction is to face the field of digital economy, and information infrastructure and converged infrastructure are the infrastructure required for the development of digital economy.
In addition, the qualifier "based on information networks and driven by technological innovation" is proposed this time, which further clarifies the key field of the development of new infrastructure for the development of the digital economy.
"The new infrastructure proposed this time is mainly oriented to information networks and is focused. At the same time, the coordinated development of core networks and mobile communication networks is emphasized in the promotion, because only by improving the overall transmission efficiency of information networks can more applications be realized. "Said Pan Helin, Executive Dean of the Institute of Digital Economy, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.
“In the post-epidemic era, the connotation of new infrastructure is gradually becoming clear. China must build a new economic engine through new infrastructure.” Yang Fan, President of Zhongcheng Think Tank, analyzed that information and communication is a key force in advancing informatization, digitization, and intelligence, and can assist in building A multi-level industrial Internet platform that promotes integration and innovation can be combined with the promotion of new urbanization, and promote the intelligent transformation of transportation, logistics, energy, municipal infrastructure and other infrastructures. It can also promote the improvement of the level of agricultural digitalization and the construction of telemedicine, online education and other livelihood infrastructures .
The new type of infrastructure based on information network and driven by technological innovation is not only a new investment field, but also a strong driving force, reflecting the future development direction.
Yang Fan believes that China’s economy is currently in the transition period from high-speed growth to high-quality development. The new infrastructure planned this time focuses on comprehensive benefits and reflects the requirements for high-quality development. In the future, it will focus on promoting artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, The development of the Internet of Things and other fields promotes the technological transformation and equipment update of the manufacturing industry, supports the new service industry and the digital economy, and ensures that the future development path is green, low-carbon, circular and sustainable.
"On the whole, new infrastructure is an important foundation for China's economic development, especially the development of the digital economy. The deployment of new infrastructure is of great value for adjusting the industrial structure, cultivating new drivers of economic development, and promoting industrial transformation and upgrading." Pu Songtao said.
Play a leading role
The executive meeting of the State Council emphasized the need to strengthen the construction of information infrastructure.
Specifically, it will promote the coordinated expansion of the national backbone network and the metropolitan area network, and carry out the speed-up transformation of the gigabit optical network.
Promote the commercialization and large-scale application of a new generation of mobile communication networks.
Improve spatial information infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation, and remote sensing.
Develop a ubiquitous and collaborative Internet of Things.
Why emphasize strengthening the construction of information infrastructure?
Yang Fan believes that the new generation of mobile communication networks is accelerating the integration of industries, agriculture, cultural tourism and other industries, and it has the effect of strengthening, superimposing and multiplying the development of thousands of industries.
At present, converged applications are becoming increasingly active, and the industrial ecosystem has grown steadily. Systematic advantages have been formed. The importance of promoting the commercialization of large-scale applications of the new generation of mobile communication networks is self-evident.
In the future, it is necessary to strengthen the supply capacity of the new generation of mobile communication networks, continue to expand the scale of industry applications, optimize the industry's typical application ecosystem, and do a good job in preventing network security risks.
The new generation of information technology has an obvious driving effect on economic growth.
The report released by Inspur Information and IDC shows that computing power is closely related to economic growth. For every point increase in computing power index, the digital economy and GDP will increase by 3.3‰ and 1.8‰ respectively.
The computing power index is expected to become a key indicator to measure the vitality of economic development in the digital age.
The Nanjing Intelligent Computing Center, which was put into operation in July this year, has a computing capacity of 8 billion billion times per second, which means that it can complete 10 billion image recognition, 3 million hours of voice translation, or 10,000 kilometers of autonomous driving artificial intelligence data processing tasks in one hour. .
Pu Songtao said that in the past, the construction and application of the Internet played a major role in promoting China's economic development and fostered a large number of Internet companies with global influence.
Further deployment and promotion of information infrastructure construction will help to enhance the leading role of the Internet and information technology in China's economic development.
Pu Songtao pointed out that, different from the previous Internet construction, in the new infrastructure construction task, more emphasis was placed on "enhancement and expansion". Improvement is to improve the service capabilities of the Internet and mobile Internet and further support the development of Internet and mobile Internet services; expansion is It is to expand and deploy spatial information infrastructure and the Internet of Things on the basis of the previous network infrastructure construction, so as to cultivate new business forms, new models, and new industries in these fields.
Emphasis on integration and empowerment
The State Council executive meeting held in September also emphasized the need to steadily develop integrated infrastructure, including the creation of a multi-level industrial Internet platform, to promote integration and innovation.
Combined with the promotion of new urbanization, the intelligent transformation of infrastructure such as transportation, logistics, energy, and municipal administration will be promoted.
Improve the level of digital agriculture.
Build infrastructure for people's livelihoods such as telemedicine and online education.
In this regard, experts said that building the industrial Internet, enhancing the digitalization of agriculture, and promoting smart cities are to strengthen the integration of information networks and physical industries from multiple dimensions, and to empower the real economy through integration and achieve transformation and upgrading.
"As a product of the in-depth integration of a new generation of information and communication technology and the industrial economy, the Industrial Internet integrates key infrastructure, a new industrial ecology, and a new application model. It embodies the transformative power of the Internet from the consumer sector to the industrial sector and promotes industrial transformation. An important focus for upgrading and developing the digital economy." Yang Fan said.
The empowering effect of the new generation of information and communication technology on the manufacturing industry has become increasingly prominent.
Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent and CEO of the cloud and smart industry business group, said that Tencent continues to promote the integration of digital technology and industrial manufacturing, and uses data elements to promote the high-quality development of manufacturing.
For example, in Shanghai Fuchi Hi-Tech, Tencent Industrial Cloud combines luminosity stereo, migration learning and other algorithms and cloud computing power to form an artificial intelligence quality inspection solution, which reduces the quality inspection that takes 1 minute to a few seconds to improve the efficiency of quality inspection. 10 times, it can save customers tens of millions of dollars in cost every year.
Pu Songtao believes that the overall architecture of the converged infrastructure can be understood as "information network as the entrance, digital platform as the support, data integration as the core, intelligent application as the key, and lightweight service as the characteristic", focusing on digital economy, digital government, digital The core path of social development needs lies in the integration and application of information technology, and the core purpose is to comprehensively support the transformation of development mode, structural optimization and growth momentum transformation in various fields, emphasizing integration and empowerment.
How to integrate empowerment?
Industry experts suggest that incentive mechanisms such as government procurement can be used to stimulate the transformation of traditional industries to digital and intelligent industries.
Pu Songtao said that first, we must focus on the integration and innovation of industry knowledge or application requirements and information technology, and second, we must focus on the construction of infrastructure standards to enable the effective interconnection of various platforms.
Our reporter Huang Xin