The new infrastructure has entered a new stage of scientific layout

New infrastructure, new policies. Eight departments such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Network Information Office recently jointly issued the Three-year Action Plan for the construction of New Internet of Things Infrastructure (2021-2023), proposing that by the end of 2023, new Internet of Things infrastructure will be initially built in major cities in China, and the foundation of social modernization governance, industrial digital transformation and livelihood consumption upgrading will be more stable.

The executive meeting of The State Council held in September proposed the scientific layout and promotion of the construction of new infrastructure based on information networks and driven by technological innovation during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. This is not the first time Beijing has emphasized new infrastructure. How is this time different from the past? Why the emphasis on information network as the basis, driven by technological innovation? How to scientific layout? The reporter interviewed the experts concerned.

Highlight the digital economy

Pu Songtao, deputy director of the China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute, believes that the concept of "new infrastructure" is not the first time, and can be traced back to the Central Economic Conference in 2018. The executive meeting of The State Council made it clear that the construction of new infrastructure is focused on the field of digital economy, and information infrastructure and integration infrastructure are the infrastructure required for the development of digital economy. In addition, the qualifier "based on information networks and driven by technological innovation" is proposed, which further clarifies the key area of new infrastructure construction for the development of the digital economy.

"The proposed new infrastructure is mainly for the information network, is focused, while in the promotion of more emphasis on the coordinated development of the core network, mobile communication network, because only to achieve the improvement of the overall transmission efficiency of information network, in order to achieve more applications." Zhongnan University of Economics and Law digital economy Research Institute executive dean Pan and Lin said.

"In the post-epidemic era, the connotation of new infrastructure is gradually clear, and China needs to build a new economic engine through new infrastructure." Yang Fan, president of Zhongcheng Think Tank, analyzed that information and communication is a key force to promote informatization, digitalization and intelligence, which can help build a multi-level industrial Internet platform, promote integrated innovation, combine to promote new urbanization, promote the intelligent transformation of transportation, logistics, energy, municipal and other infrastructure, and promote the digitalization level of agriculture. We will build infrastructure for people's livelihood such as telemedicine and online education. The new type of infrastructure based on information networks and driven by technological innovation is not only a new area of investment, but also has a strong driving force and reflects the future development direction.

Yang Fan believes that China's economy is currently in a transition period from high-speed growth to high-quality development, the planning of the new infrastructure focused on considering the comprehensive benefits, reflecting the requirements of high-quality development, the future will focus on promoting the development of artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, Internet of things and other fields, promote manufacturing technology transformation and equipment update, support new services and digital economy, Ensure that the future development path is green, low-carbon, circular and sustainable.

"Taken together, new infrastructure is an important foundation for China's economic development, especially the development of the digital economy, and the deployment and construction of new infrastructure is of great value for adjusting industrial structure, cultivating new momentum for economic development, and promoting industrial transformation and upgrading." Pu Songtao said.

Play a leading role

The executive meeting of The State Council stressed the need to strengthen the construction of information infrastructure. Specifically, promoting the coordinated expansion of the national backbone network and the metropolitan area network, and carrying out the upgrading of gigabit optical network speed. We will promote the commercialization and large-scale application of next-generation mobile communication networks. We will improve space information infrastructure such as satellite communications, navigation and remote sensing. Develop a ubiquitous and collaborative Internet of Things.

Why the emphasis on strengthening information infrastructure? Yang Fan believes that the new generation of mobile communication network is accelerating the integration of industry, agriculture, cultural tourism and other industries, and has a strong, overlapping and doubling effect on the development of thousands of industries. At present, convergence applications are becoming increasingly active, the industrial ecology is steadily growing, and has formed a systematic advantage, and the importance of promoting the commercial large-scale application of a new generation of mobile communication networks is self-evident. In the future, it is necessary to strengthen the supply capacity of a new generation of mobile communication networks, continue to expand the application scale of the industry, improve the typical application ecology of the industry, and prevent network security risks.