China News Service, Chengdu, February 27 (Shan Peng) A few days ago, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Network Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly approved the Chengdu-Chongqing region to start the construction of a national hub node for a national integrated computing power network (hereinafter referred to as Chengdu-Chongqing). hub).

Also approved are the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other regions.

At present, the layout of all 8 computing power network hub nodes at the national level has been completed, marking the full and official launch of the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project.

　　According to the "Reply Letter from the National Development and Reform Commission and Other Departments on Approving the Construction of National Hub Nodes of National Integrated Computing Network in Chengdu-Chongqing Region", the Chengdu-Chongqing hub plans to establish Tianfu data center cluster and Chongqing data center cluster, around the two data center clusters , pay close attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, balance the deployment of computing power resources in the city and its surrounding areas, and do a good job in connecting with the "East and West".

What are the foundations for the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub in the "East and West" project?

How will it empower the digital economy in the Chengdu-Chongqing region?

　　"The Chengdu-Chongqing area has abundant resources such as land, energy, and communications, which can effectively reduce the cost of computing power; the relatively complete digital industry in the Chengdu-Chongqing area will provide necessary support for the construction of data centers; the population in the Chengdu-Chongqing area is relatively concentrated, which can better Improve the reuse rate of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub." said Pan Helin, member of the Information and Communication Economy Expert Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and executive director of the Digital Economy Research Institute of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law.

　　It is understood that data centers are large consumers of electricity, and the western region is rich in renewable energy, which has the potential to develop data centers and meet computing power needs in the east.

Sichuan is a province of clean energy. At present, major hydropower projects such as Wudongde and Baihetan have been completed to generate electricity. The installed capacity and power generation of clean energy account for 85.3% and 86.6% respectively, and the total installed hydropower capacity is 89.47 million kilowatts.

In the future, Sichuan will also speed up the development of water, wind, gas, hydrogen and multi-energy complementary integration, and promote the construction of the "Three Rivers" hydropower base, the Liangshan prefecture wind power generation base, and the "three states and one city" photovoltaic power generation base.

This will provide sufficient clean energy guarantee and low-cost electricity price support for the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub.

　　In terms of the foundation of the digital economy, the digital economy in Sichuan has grown rapidly in recent years. In 2021, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy in Sichuan will reach 401.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of about 18%; in terms of digital infrastructure, Sichuan has built more than 6.6 5G base stations. 10,000; Chengdu, Mianyang, Luzhou, and Meishan were selected as the first batch of "gigabit cities" in the country; the number of active IPv6 users exceeds 70 million, accounting for about one-eighth of the country; The total investment in the data center exceeds 100 billion yuan.

　　In terms of Chongqing, by the end of 2021, a total of 49,000 5G base stations have been built and opened in Chongqing, the added value of the digital industry has reached 182.4 billion yuan, more than 7,000 big data intelligent enterprises have been gathered, 2,780 intelligent transformation projects have been implemented, and 67 intelligent factories have been built. , 359 digital workshops, more than 71,000 "cloud" enterprises, and the digital economy has been applied in many fields such as urban construction, government affairs, education, and medical care.

　　In November last year, the Sichuan and Chongqing communication administrations jointly announced the key points of the information and communication industry in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle in 2022, and proposed to build a "gigabit city cluster" with Chengdu and Chongqing as the core, and achieve more than Sichuan and Chongqing cities. Full coverage of gigabit broadband; promote the optimization of data center network direct connection and inter-regional network links, and strengthen the support of "East Data and West Calculation".

　　In the future, relying on the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub, the digital economy in the Chengdu-Chongqing region will be further revitalized.

Cao Baolin, assistant dean and researcher of iNED of the New Economic Development Research Institute, believes that the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub is conducive to the further improvement of new infrastructure such as 5G base stations, gigabit fiber "dual-gigabit" networks, and green and low-carbon data centers in the region; digital economy Upstream, midstream and downstream enterprises in the industry chain will speed up their deployment, involving IDC service providers, precision temperature control, cloud computing, data processing, storage backup, etc., as well as advantageous and characteristic application fields such as smart medical care, smart air traffic control, and inclusive finance; in addition, The digital transformation of industries such as electronic information, biomedicine, automobile manufacturing, and high-end equipment manufacturing will also be accelerated, and the digital economy and the real economy will be deeply integrated.

　　"Chengdu-Chongqing is an important hub area for 'East and West Calculation' in the future, and will become an important computing power node in the west." Pan Helin believes that the Chengdu-Chongqing area starts the construction of hub nodes, and it is necessary to strengthen land, energy, communication, energy storage, etc. Resource scheduling and coordination; make up for the shortcomings of the industry, develop industries such as chips, server systems, IDC operation and maintenance, and application software solutions, and build the foundation for IDC construction; give full play to the role of market players to better activate the development of the digital economy.

　　Cao Baolin suggested that the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing hub should strengthen the coordinated development within and outside the region; promote the market-oriented reform of data elements, break down barriers to data circulation in Sichuan and Chongqing, strengthen data sharing and utilization, and promote the integration of cross-regional government data, public data, and social data; coordinated development Innovative applications in the fields of smart transportation, smart medical care, smart cultural tourism, smart people's livelihood services, and smart technology services.

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