China News Service, Zhongwei, October 20th, title: Visiting China's first "dual center" city: the digital economy is gaining momentum
China News Service reporter Yu Jing Jixiang
"When people tap their mobile phones to place an order at Meituan without leaving home, the nearby matching meal delivery boy will deliver the meal to you on time. This is a scene that often happens around us, but what is unexpected is that, The calculation and processing of the order information is carried out in the distant Zhongwei..." As relevant reports were published on the Internet, people began to pay attention to this small western city.
The picture shows the fresh air system of the National (Zhongwei) New Internet Exchange Center.
Photo by Yu Jing
On October 20th, a reporter from Chinanews.com visited Zhongwei in Ningxia to experience the evolution of this small desert city rising from the "cloud". After 8 years of development, it has evolved through cloud computing and big data.
On the same day, a reporter from Chinanews.com saw in the Zhongwei Industrial Park that Amazon Phase II, China Mobile Phase II and other super-large data centers are about to be completed. (Zhongwei) The new Internet exchange center was approved, and Zhongwei, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Shanghai became the country's 4 Internet municipalities; in 2021, it was approved as a national hub node for a national integrated big data center.
Zhongwei thus became China's first "dual center" city.
As the country's first "dual center" city, the digital economy of Zhongwei City is gaining momentum.
Up to now, more than 200 cloud manufacturing and cloud service companies have successively settled in Zhongwei, with an associated output value of 250 billion yuan and more than 4,700 service companies.
It is worth mentioning that the annual average temperature of Zhongwei is 8.8 degrees Celsius, which is suitable for the development of all natural air cooling.
At the same time, clean energy accounts for more than 90%, water and natural gas prices are relatively low, and land resources are abundant, making it the best choice for optical fiber network construction.
Today, good natural conditions have attracted 6 super-large and large-scale data centers for Zhongwei to be completed and put into operation.
According to statistics, the Western Cloud Base currently covers an area of 5,000 mu, with a cumulative investment of over 8 billion yuan, a built-up area of about 250,000 square meters of computer rooms, and an installed capacity of 600,000 servers.
In recent years, Zhongwei City has taken the cloud computing and big data industry as the “No. 1 Project” to implement new development concepts, integrate into the new development pattern, and build the Yellow River Basin ecological protection and high-quality development pilot city. Lead, vigorously promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, introduce the world's leading cloud computing companies and China's cloud computing backbone companies, and take the lead in building a new generation of green data centers with all-natural air cooling technology, modular customization, and ultra-large-scale deployment in China.
National (Zhongwei) new Internet exchange center cpu computer room.
Photo by Yu Jing
The relevant person in charge of Zhongwei City said that Zhongwei has used cloud computing to revitalize big data and turn the desert into a cornucopia. It boldly created a high level of transformation from a geographic transportation hub to a data hub, energy storage to information storage, and energy output to information output. On the road to quality development, in the first three quarters of this year, the added value of the information transmission, software and information technology service industries in Zhongwei City has increased by 26.4%, and its contribution to GDP has reached 33%.
For the small city of Zhongwei, the industrial transformation and productivity improvement brought about by data are exciting. It not only opens up a new path for high-quality development with a little bit of sand into gold and a strong digital map, but also provides it with a digital blue ocean of trending. , Opportunities comparable to first-tier cities have opened the door to reshaping the industrial structure and wrestling with the digital economy.
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