The overall level of infrastructure has improved by leaps and bounds

"The '14th Five-Year Plan' and even the future for a long period of time, China's new infrastructure construction investment prospects continue to improve." Zhang Zhihua said that since the beginning of this year, The State Council has issued relevant policies to support major infrastructure construction, including new infrastructure into the focus of support. With the implementation of these policies, a number of new infrastructure construction projects will be launched at a faster pace, playing a positive role in stabilizing investment and expanding domestic demand.

The "counting in the East and counting in the west" project has achieved initial results

In February this year, the project of "counting in the East and Counting in the West" was launched, and the construction of national computing hubs was launched in eight places, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, and 10 national data center clusters were set up, officially opening the door to the construction of a national integrated big data center system. "For more than half a year, we have accelerated progress in accordance with the established deployment, and the project of 'counting the east and counting the west' has achieved initial results." Zhang Zhihua said.

At present, the construction plans of eight national computing hub nodes have entered the deepening implementation stage, with more than 60 new data center projects in the starting area, the scale of new data centers exceeding 1.1 million standard racks, the total investment of the project exceeding 400 billion yuan, and the concentration effect of computing power initially appearing. In particular, the proportion of data centers in the western region has steadily increased, and the national computing power structure has gradually optimized.

According to reports, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with relevant parties, make full use of central budget investment, policy development financial instruments, local government special debt, etc., to support the construction of national computing hub and data center cluster. At the same time, encourage and support the introduction of local power, network, water, energy and other aspects of supporting policies, especially in the use of green energy bold exploration, innovative ways to ensure the smooth construction of national computing hub.

Zhang Zhihua said that in the next step, the construction of data centers will be further strengthened with the simultaneous implementation of supporting policies such as network, land, energy and water use, and the early completion and application of major engineering projects will be promoted. We will make full use of policy means such as investment within the central budget, various financial instruments, and individual energy consumption to support the early functioning of the national computing hub and national data center cluster.