Computing-Power Network Takes Shape at an Accelerated Pace, Supporting the Development of Digital China

CCTV.com News (Xinwen Lianbo): A computing-power network is a foundational support for the development of artificial intelligence. As a major project in the 15th Five-Year Plan, the network is being upgraded at an accelerated pace in this opening year, while localities advance the development of Digital China in line with local conditions.

With the layout of eight national computing-power hubs spanning east, west, north and south, “Eastern Data, Western Computing” has built a nationwide integrated computing-power network. Today, the eight hubs are each making the most of their strengths, and the network continues to take shape at an accelerated pace.

In the East China Sea, the Shanghai Lingang undersea data center directly connected to wind power recently began full commercial operation. Domestic operators and leading AI large-model companies have connected to undersea computing-power resources to conduct commercial applications such as inference with domestically developed large models and scientific computing.

At the Eastern Data, Western Computing Industrial Park in Qingyang, Gansu, a new data center is under accelerated construction. More than 12,000 standard cabinets are about to enter full operation for large-model training and inference. The added computing power will shorten the iteration cycle for intelligent-driving large models from “waiting by the month” to “counting by the hour.”

In Zhongwei, Ningxia, to meet this year’s sharp increase in orders, the Western Cloud Base Computing Center, which is under construction, has begun winter construction operations to accelerate progress.

The expanding nationwide integrated computing-power network is linking demand in the east with resources in the west, serving the real economy and benefiting people’s lives.

The 26 computing centers in the Helinger New Area of Inner Mongolia have entered a large-scale construction phase, and a range of intelligent applications for distinctive industries are being rolled out at an accelerated pace. A vertical large model for forage makes bulk forage trading as convenient as online shopping, while an AI cattle-face recognition system precisely identifies dairy cows. Computing power is activating new-quality productive forces in traditional agriculture and animal husbandry and empowering the development of smart pastures.

In the Gui’an New Area of Guizhou, another data center is under accelerated construction, where it will support more public-service scenarios, including intelligent driving, smart transportation, and intelligent elder care. An AI assistant developed through “AI + government services” has created an integrated intelligent agent for government services, advancing their intelligent transformation and continually improving the convenience of handling affairs for the public and the efficiency of application approvals.

In Karamay, Xinjiang, vast quantities of oilfield production data are collected in real time, dynamically analyzed, and intelligently assessed across the entire oil and gas production chain. The former Gobi oil city is accelerating its transformation into a computing-power city.