New infrastructure construction has entered a fast track

First, the scale of information and communication network construction is leading the world. With the deepening implementation of the "Broadband China" strategy, China has built the world's largest optical fiber and mobile broadband network. By the end of 2022, the total length of optical cable lines had reached 59.58 million kilometers, a net increase of 4.77 million kilometers over the end of the previous year, and the network capacity continued to increase. The number of 10G PON ports with gigabit network service capability reached 15.23 million, a net increase of 7.371 million over the end of the previous year, and a total of 110 cities across the country reached the gigabit city construction standard. The application of next-generation Internet technologies is accelerating, the scale and application level of the network is leading the world, and the network infrastructure is fully evolving and upgrading to IPv6, and the number of active IPv6 users currently reaches 697 million.

Second, the accelerated development of computing infrastructure. The implementation of the "East Count and West count" project has been accelerated, the overall layout of the national integrated big data center system has been completed, the construction of eight national computing hub nodes has started, and nearly 70 new data center projects will be started in 2022, with a new data center scale of about 1.5 million standard racks. By the end of 2022, the number of data center racks provided by basic telecommunications enterprises to the public reached 818,000, a net increase of 84,000 over the end of the previous year, of which the number of racks in the central and western regions accounted for 21.9%, and the situation of excessive concentration of data centers in the east has been improved. The number of racks of self-used data centers of basic telecommunications enterprises increased by 160,000 net compared with the end of the previous year, and the capabilities of network, connectivity, computing power, data, security and other integrated services were enhanced, laying the foundation for providing high-quality new digital services. The national civil space infrastructure system has been basically completed, the Beidou-3 global navigation satellite system has been put into operation, and the satellite remote sensing system has formed a global observation capability.

Third, the capacity of information and communication services has been greatly improved. China's mobile communication has realized the leap from "3G breakthrough" to "4G synchronization" and then to "5G leadership", and the vision demand research, key technology research and development, and international exchange and cooperation in the 6G field have accelerated. The Internet penetration rate increased from 42.1% in 2012 to 74.4% in June 2022, and the number of Internet users reached 1.051 billion. In 2022, the total number of telephone users in China will reach 1.863 billion, including 1.683 billion mobile phone users, with a penetration rate of 119.2 units per 100 people, and 561 million 5G mobile phone users. For small and medium-sized enterprises, broadband and dedicated lines have been reduced for four consecutive years, yielding profits of more than 700 billion yuan. Compared to 2012, the average download rate of broadband networks has increased by nearly 40 times, and the average tariff per unit of traffic of mobile networks has decreased by more than 95%. The information and communication service capabilities of small and medium-sized cities in the central and western regions have been further improved.

China's information infrastructure construction has made great progress, but compared with the high-quality development needs of the digital economy and the international advanced level, there is still a big gap: the current systematic and international industrial Internet platform vacancy, cloud computing infrastructure and application scenarios are still in the incubation period, and application scenarios are relatively insufficient; The new generation of information technology is in the process of constantly updating and optimizing and adjusting. The construction, operation, management and maintenance cost of information infrastructure is high, and the participation of social capital is not high. There are shortcomings in key core technologies, the potential high value-added of the industry is difficult to stimulate, and the superposition effect and multiplier effect of the integration of advanced manufacturing and the digital economy are greatly reduced.

In the future, the forward-looking layout of information infrastructure construction, we must accelerate the construction of high-speed ubiquitous, heaven and earth, cloud network integration, intelligent and agile, green and low-carbon, safe and controllable intelligent comprehensive digital infrastructure, comprehensively improve the digitization level of infrastructure, expand the information high-tech industry, strategic emerging industries and future industries investment, continue to open up new areas of development and new tracks.