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Data shows that China's total computing power is currently the second largest in the world, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 30% in the past five years. Behind the rapid development of the industry is the continuous improvement of infrastructure, the accelerated emergence of integrated applications, and the continuous expansion of the industrial chain. As the development momentum continues to increase, China's computing industry is moving towards high-quality development.
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At present, new technologies, new business types and new models emerge in endlessly, and the digital economy develops at an unprecedented speed, has a wide range of radiation and has an unprecedented degree of influence. With the full opening of the digital economy era, computing power, like power in the industrial era, has become a new key productivity.
At the recently held 2023 China Computing Power Conference, the white paper "China's Comprehensive Computing Power Index (2023)" issued by the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Research shows that China's computing power ranks second in the world in terms of total scale, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 30% in the past five years. The industrial chain has been continuously expanded, and the development momentum has been continuously enhanced. China's computing industry is moving towards high-quality development.
Accelerate the construction of computing network infrastructure
In Ningxia, the Pearl River, coal, wind energy, solar energy and other energy are enriched and complementary, power supply is sufficient and stable, and the price of data center to households is not higher than 0.36 yuan/kWh. This is the first comprehensive demonstration area of new energy in China, the only new national Internet exchange center in the west and the "double node" province of the national hub of the national integrated computing network. It has built the first ten thousand card intelligent computing center and the first computing trading service platform in China.
"We are speeding up the upgrading of high-end intelligent computing scenarios, and constantly improving the level of support for major projects such as' data from the east to the west '." He Biao, vice general manager of China Unicom, said that through the intelligent scheduling of computing power at more than 200 cloud computing power optimal nodes, the overall service delay was reduced by 90%, and the public network bandwidth cost was saved by 50%.
In February 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments jointly issued documents agreeing to start the construction of national computing hub nodes in Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, Ningxia and other places, and to plan 10 national data center clusters. The "East Data Center and West Data Center" project was officially launched.
For more than a year, each hub node has actively issued policies, strengthened investment attraction, promoted intra regional and inter regional exchanges and cooperation in computing industry, and guided the construction of computing network infrastructure. In the east, Beijing Mentougou Intelligent Computing Center was inaugurated in May this year. Wuhu data center cluster has attracted 11 key projects with a total investment of more than 220 billion yuan; In the western region, the Ulanqab Intelligent Computing Center project has a computing power scale of 60 billion times per second (PFLOPS), and Ningxia Mobile has built a market oriented 1000 calorie AI training cluster.
The direct connection network between hub nodes is the bottom channel for the efficient cross regional flow of "East Data and West Data" data. "In recent years, we have accelerated the upgrading of computing network infrastructure, and the layout of the data center covers all the hub nodes of the" East Data and West Computing ". Yang Jie, chairman of China Mobile, said that next, we will continue to tackle key technologies to build a secure, reliable and low-carbon computing network.
In June this year, the national integrated computing power network scheduling platform was released, which is the first national platform to achieve multi heterogeneous computing power scheduling in China. It can further strengthen the nationwide computing network demand and computing network resource awareness, and achieve efficient matching of computing network supply and demand through intelligent scheduling mechanism. "From the early conception to the pilot project, the coordinated scheduling capability of China's diversified heterogeneous computing power is gradually forming." The relevant person in charge of the China Academy of Information and Communications said that the next step should be more efficient and accurate guidance of industrial services, constantly improve the computing power evaluation system, and enhance the innovation vitality of China's computing power application.
Convergent applications are accelerating and the industrial chain is expanding
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It is estimated that in terms of computing power, every 1 yuan invested will drive the GDP growth of 3 to 4 yuan. Accelerating the construction of computing power can effectively stimulate the innovation vitality of data elements and realize the amplification, superposition and multiplication of economic development efficiency.
In recent years, focusing on accelerating the construction and application of computing infrastructure, a series of important policies and measures have been introduced from the central to local governments, and a large number of major engineering projects have been implemented to promote the rapid development of China's computing industry.
Infrastructure construction has been steadily promoted, and the development base has been constantly consolidated. Since 2018, the annual compound growth rate of the number of data center racks in China has exceeded 30%. As of the end of June this year, the number of standard racks in use has exceeded 7.6 million, the total computing power has reached 197 billion cycles per second (EFLOPS), and the total storage capacity has exceeded 1080 exabytes (EB).
The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries enabled by computing power accelerated the emergence of integrated applications. At present, China's computing industry has begun to take shape. The upstream, midstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain cooperate with each other to form a positive interaction. With the acceleration of the penetration of computing power into government affairs, industry, transportation, medical care and other industries, the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy are deeply integrated, and new applications and new business types burst into vitality. "The empowerment of computing power has pushed forward in depth, becoming an important fulcrum for the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. The masses of people also experience the real changes brought about by computing power in their daily lives," said the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
The industrial chain is increasingly improved, and the computing power ecology is continuously optimized. The upstream industry consists of facilities, equipment and software suppliers, the midstream industry consists of basic telecommunications, data centers and cloud service providers, and the downstream industry consists of industrial, financial and Internet industry users.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that at present, China's supply capacity of complete machines remains in the lead, the performance of general servers and edge servers continues to improve, the competitiveness of domestic brand servers continues to increase, and the output of servers, computers, smartphones and other computing products has reached the first place in the world.
Make the industry stronger, better and bigger
In Jiaozuo, Henan Province, the intelligent excavator on the mining transportation line boomed, and the ore was accurately put onto the tramcar through the crushing station and conveyor belt. With the 5G network and computing support of China Mobile, Jiaomei Qianye Cement 5G Green Unmanned Mine can control the positioning accuracy within 20cm and reduce the transmission delay of remote control to less than 30ms during operation.
"A good computing network needs high speed and large capacity, and will face two technical challenges: connection delay and ultra wideband." Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that at present, the minimum physical delay that China can provide is 200 km/ms, and is tackling 300 km/ms; In terms of bandwidth, Pengcheng National Laboratory is making efforts to provide 100-1000 terabits per second (Tbps) technology.
With the basis of transportation computing power, we should also strengthen overall planning. Can computing power be dispatched? To what extent can it be dispatched? Can you fill the position accurately when needed? These are the key problems that China's computing network construction will face in the next step.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that, next, we will continue to focus on China's economic and social development needs, promote infrastructure construction, industrial technology innovation and in-depth integration and application, and strengthen, optimize and expand the computing industry.
Strengthen top-level design and optimize infrastructure layout. We will deepen the implementation of the 14th Five Year Plan for the development of the information and communication industry, accelerate the construction of a national hub of the national integrated computing network, focus on building data center clusters, and promote the efficient complementarity and synergy of computing power between the East and the West. Further improve the top-level design of high-quality development of computing facilities, strengthen the overall planning of computing resources, increase the supply of high-performance intelligent computing, increase the reliability of computing network, and improve the level of efficient and intensive utilization.
Strengthen technological innovation and cultivate a good ecology. Technological breakthrough is the root of the development of computing power. On the one hand, we should focus on the needs of computing power development, enhance our independent innovation ability, promote the innovation of computing architecture, computing methods and algorithms, and strengthen the research and development of key products; On the other hand, promote the deep integration of industry, university, research and application, focus on the construction of software and hardware ecosystem related to computing power, strengthen the coordination of hardware, basic software, application software and other adaptation, and improve the level of industrial infrastructure.
Build an optimal computing power network to stimulate the potential of integrated applications. Accelerate the deployment of network facilities and computing facilities, further optimize and upgrade the network architecture, strengthen computing network monitoring, and create a system that meets the needs of various computing applications. Strengthen the overall scheduling of computing power resources, and constantly improve the efficiency of computing power utilization. Taking typical industries such as industry, transportation and medical care as the main scene, we will create a batch of mature solutions, continue to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and accelerate the implementation of computing applications with novel models and distinctive features.
"We will find the right starting point, plan the strategic layout of China's future computing power development, and provide strong support for building a manufacturing power, a network power, and a digital China," said the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
People's Daily (September 6, 2023, edition 10)
