What is the significance of launching this heavy project of 8 computing power hubs and 10 large data center clusters across the country?

　　With the approval of all the 8 national hub nodes of the computing power network, the overall layout design of the national integrated big data center system has been completed, and the "East Digital Western Computing" project has been officially launched.

　　Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice agreeing to conduct business operations in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, and Ningxia. The construction of national computing power hub nodes (hereinafter referred to as "hubs") has been launched in 8 other places, and 10 national data center clusters have been planned.

　　The relevant person in charge of the high-tech department of the National Development and Reform Commission answered a reporter's question on the 17th on the implementation of the "East Number and West Calculation" project, saying that most of my country's data centers are located in the eastern region. Due to the increasing shortage of land, energy and other resources, large-scale development of data centers in the east Unsustainable.

The western region of my country is rich in resources, especially renewable energy, and has the potential to develop data centers and meet the computing power needs of the eastern region.

To this end, it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of my country's system and mechanism, integrate the layout from a national perspective, optimize the allocation of resources, and improve the efficiency of resource use.

What is the meaning of "counting the east and counting the west"

　　The "14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development" issued by the State Council previously proposed that by 2025, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy will account for 10% of GDP.

　　As the foundation for the healthy development of the digital economy, computing power facilities play a huge role in promoting the healthy development of the digital economy.

　　The above-mentioned person in charge said that computing power, as the core productivity of the digital economy, has become the new focus of global strategic competition.

Up to now, the scale of data centers in my country has reached 5 million standard racks, and the computing power has reached 130EFLOPS (1300 billion floating point operations per second).

Accelerating the construction of computing power will effectively stimulate the innovation vitality of data elements, accelerate the process of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, give birth to new technologies, new industries, new business forms, and new models, and support high-quality economic development.

　　The implementation of the "East Data and Western Calculation" project to promote the rational layout of data centers, optimize supply and demand, green intensification and interconnection is conducive to improving the country's overall computing power level, promoting green development, expanding effective investment, and promoting coordinated regional development.

　　"The data center industry chain is long, the scale of investment is large, and the driving effect is strong. Through the construction of computing power hubs and data center clusters, the upstream and downstream investment in the industry will be effectively driven. The layout of computing power facilities from east to west will drive the effective transfer of related industries. Promote the flow of data and value transfer between the east and the west, expand the development space in the east, and promote the development of the west to form a new pattern." said the above-mentioned person in charge.

　　He Renlong, chief expert of the Shanghai Emerging Information and Communication Technology Application Research Institute, told Yicai that the launch of this major project marks that the digital economy has embarked on the fast lane of integrated development.

"If transportation is the connection hub for the development of the real economy, the 'new infrastructure' computing power network led by the national integrated big data center system is the 'highway' of the digital economy."

　　In his view, taking the expansion of the data element application system as an example, in the future, the computing power network of the data center can feed back key industrial chains.

By carrying out pilot demonstrations of applications in key industries, we will support enterprises in key industries to explore unique data application models, improve the efficiency of digital transformation of the entire industry, and finally form a digital China blood circulation system with a data center as a hematopoietic hub.

　　Liu Xielin, director of the China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management Research Center at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that regional innovation capabilities are affected by a variety of factors, and the rise of the digital economy provides new technical support for the flow of factors, coordinated development, and industrial upgrading in regional innovation.

"In the era of digitalization, more and more digitalization-related industries will gather in developed provinces, leading to a widening gap in innovation capabilities between regions. At the same time, digitalization has accelerated the process of growth and agglomeration of emerging industries, providing catch-up for some backward provinces. opportunity," he told reporters.

How to build 8 hubs and 10 clusters

　　The "National Integrated Big Data Center Collaborative Innovation System Computing Power Hub Implementation Plan" released in May last year clarified the positioning of eight hub nodes.

For nodes with large user scale and strong application demand, such as

-Chongqing, etc., focus on coordinating the layout of data centers within the city and surrounding areas to achieve large-scale computing power deployment and land, The coordination of energy, water, electricity and other resources is sustainable, the data center supply structure is optimized, the space for computing power growth is expanded, and the implementation needs of major regional development strategies are met.

For nodes in Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia

, etc. with abundant renewable energy, suitable climate, and great potential for green development of data centers, focus on improving the service quality and utilization efficiency of computing power, give full play to resource advantages, consolidate basic guarantees such as networks, and actively undertake Background processing, offline analysis, storage backup and other non-real-time computing power needs are required nationwide, and a non-real-time computing power guarantee base for the whole country is built.

　　According to the latest four notification documents released by the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, regarding the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub, the Zhangjiakou data center cluster is planned to be established.

The starting areas of Zhangjiakou data center cluster are Huailai County, Zhangbei County and Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou City.

Focusing on the data center cluster, we will promptly optimize the computing power layout, actively meet the real-time computing power needs of Beijing and other places, guide the warm and cold business to migrate to the west, and build a real-time computing power center that radiates to North China, Northeast China and even the whole country.

　　The Yangtze River Delta Hub plans to establish a data center cluster in the Yangtze River Delta ecological and green integrated development demonstration area and a Wuhu data center cluster.

Among them, the starting areas of the data center cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Eco-Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone are Qingpu District, Shanghai, Wujiang District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province.

The starting areas of the Wuhu data center cluster are Jiujiang District, Yijiang District and Wuwei City in Wuhu City.

Focusing on the two data center clusters, we will promptly optimize the computing power layout, actively meet the real-time computing power needs of central cities in the Yangtze River Delta, guide the migration of warm and cold businesses to the west, and build a development pattern of "integrated coordination and radiating the whole area" of computing power resources in the Yangtze River Delta region. .

　　Chengdu-Chongqing hub, plans to set up Tianfu data center cluster and Chongqing data center cluster.

Among them, the starting area of ​​Tianfu data center cluster is Chengdu Shuangliu District, Pidu District, and Jianyang City.

The starting area of ​​Chongqing data center cluster is Shuitu New Town, Liangjiang New District, Bishan Area of ​​Western (Chongqing) Science City, and Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone.

Focusing on the two data center clusters, we will optimize the layout of computing power, balance the deployment of computing power resources in the city and around the city, and do a good job of connecting with the "East and West".

　　The hub of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is planned to establish a Shaoguan data center cluster, and the boundary of the starting area is the Shaoguan High-tech Zone.

Focusing on the Shaoguan data center cluster, we will promptly optimize the computing power layout, actively meet the real-time computing power needs of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, guide the warm and cold business to migrate to the west, and build a real-time computing power center that radiates to South China and even the whole country.

　　The above-mentioned relevant person in charge of the High-tech Department of the National Development and Reform Commission explained that the implementation of the "East and West" project is to promote the moderate aggregation and intensive development of data centers across the country, promote the layout and overall development of data centers from east to west, and realize "East and West". "Calculate" step-by-step, rapid iteration.

"In order to resolutely avoid the blind development of data centers, in the current initial stage, 10 data center clusters have been planned and established in 8 computing power hubs, the physical boundaries have been delineated, and development goals such as green energy saving and listing rate have been clarified. For example,

, and the utilization rate of renewable energy must be significantly improved.”

　　In the next step, we will further increase overall planning, give full play to the superposition effect of policies, promote the optimization of computing power layout and the reform and innovation of system and mechanism in an integrated manner, accelerate the enhancement of the influence and agglomeration power of the 8 major computing power hubs, and drive the integration and coordination of computing power across the country. developing.

Including strengthening the connectivity of network facilities, strengthening the linkage of energy layout, supporting technological innovation and integration, and promoting industrial growth and ecology.

　　For example, speed up the opening of direct data connection channels between the east and the west, and create a batch of demonstration lines of "calculating the east and the west".

Optimize the communication network structure, improve the network node level of the national data center cluster, and improve the quality of network transmission.

Strengthen the integrated design of data centers and power grids, and promote renewable energy power generation companies to supply power to data centers.

Support data center clusters supporting renewable energy power stations.

Priority will be given to supporting energy consumption indicators for data center projects that have achieved outstanding results in the implementation of "East Number and West Calculation".