The national development and Reform Commission recently held a special press conference to introduce the situation of actively expanding effective investment. Sun Wei, deputy director of the high technology department of the national development and Reform Commission and first-class inspector, revealed at the press conference that since this year, the country's 10 national data center clusters have driven investment in all aspects of more than 190 billion yuan.
Not long ago, the national development and Reform Commission and the four departments approved to start the construction of National Computing hub nodes in 8 places, including Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Great Bay area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Chengdu and Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, and planned to set up 10 national data center clusters. The project of "counting from the east to the west" was officially launched.
According to Sun Wei, according to the requirements of the overall layout, relevant market subjects actively participated in the construction of big data center, and the investment driving effect initially appeared. According to statistics, since the beginning of this year, 25 new projects have been started among the 10 national data center clusters in China. The scale of the data center has reached 540000 standard racks, with a computing power of more than 135 billion floating-point operations per second, about 27 million personal computers, driving investment in all aspects of more than 190 billion yuan. Among them, the investment in the western region increased six times over the same period last year, and the investment generally showed a good trend of transfer from east to west.
"As the base of the operation of the digital economy, the big data center can not only effectively drive the investment in upstream and downstream industries such as information technology R & D and manufacturing, communication network and energy, but also promote the comprehensive digital transformation and upgrading of economy and society, regional coordinated development, further smooth the circulation and application of data elements, and play an important basic role in continuously strengthening, optimizing and expanding China's digital economy." Sun Wei said.
Sun Wei also revealed that it is expected that during the "14th five year plan" period, the investment in big data center will increase by more than 20% every year, and the cumulative investment in all aspects will exceed 3 trillion yuan.
