We will promote coordinated development of converged infrastructure and information infrastructure

First, integrated infrastructure is an inevitable trend in the development of information infrastructure

(1) Cross-border integration of information technology promotes the development of integrated infrastructure. At present, human society is entering the fourth Industrial Revolution with digitalization as its main feature. Digital development is accelerating from the field of consumption to the fields of production, manufacturing, social services, and government governance. New generation information technologies such as 5G, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence are widely applied to the full life cycle of traditional infrastructure. The traditional single-function infrastructure information system is evolving into an intelligent and integrated infrastructure that integrates information perception, transmission, storage, calculation, processing and other functions. Through the enhancement of the whole-process data capability, the types and ways of traditional infrastructure to provide external services have changed, forming a new form of converged infrastructure.

2. High-quality development requires infrastructure to provide digital support capabilities. As the economy and society fully enter the digital era, infrastructure, as an important support for the development of various undertakings in the national economy, must be able to provide advanced digital support capabilities, must evolve toward digitalization, networking, and intelligence, and must accelerate the evolution and upgrading, and moderately advance construction, in order to play a strategic leading role. We will enhance our ability to ensure the development of the digital economy, digital society and digital government.

(3) Sustainable development requires digital infrastructure empowerment. Green low-carbon sustainable development is the global trend, "carbon peak carbon neutrality" has become one of the important tasks of China's future development. Using the new generation of information technology to promote the evolution of traditional infrastructure to integrated infrastructure, on the one hand, it can achieve green development itself, optimize the operation process of facilities through data analysis and mining, improve the efficiency of facility operation and service, and save unit energy consumption; on the other hand, intelligent infrastructure can empower various economic and social fields through digitalization. Drive other sectors to achieve green and sustainable development. For example, in the process of digitization of traditional infrastructure, fully digital new infrastructure corresponding to the functions of traditional infrastructure has been developed and formed, such as third-party online payment platform, Internet hospital, online classroom, etc. These new infrastructure forms break the time and space restrictions and provide convenient service methods of "one point access, the whole network service". It greatly saves the resource consumption of the whole society.

Second, convergence infrastructure and information infrastructure are mutually reinforcing

(1) Information infrastructure enabling integrated infrastructure development. Through open capabilities, information infrastructure can provide services for the construction of converged infrastructure, help the converged infrastructure build data collection, transmission, calculation, processing and other functions, and reduce the application cost and use threshold of information technology. At present, the use of information infrastructure to enable converged infrastructure development has been very popular, 5G networks are widely integrated with vertical industries, providing efficient connection services for smart factories, telemedicine, intelligent transportation, etc. The Internet of Things development platform, artificial intelligence algorithm framework and open platform provide convenient tools for industry application development, and cloud computing and intelligent computing can provide computing power support for various converged infrastructure.

(2) Integrating infrastructure to promote innovation in information infrastructure. The integrated infrastructure supports the normal operation of manufacturing, social services and urban management, and puts forward strict requirements on network performance, network connectivity, safety and reliability, such as smart factories, remote surgery, automatic driving and other applications require ultra-low latency of millisecond level and ultra-high reliability of 99.9999%. Iot applications such as smart factories and smart cities need to support hyperscale connectivity at the same time. These new requirements are driving continuous innovation in information infrastructure, resulting in a series of new technologies and facilities such as 5G, gigabit optical networks, deterministic networks, edge computing, intelligent computing, and ultra-high-speed transmission. Looking to the future, users have begun to imagine immersive cloud XR, holographic communication, perceptual interaction, digital twin and other applications, better experience, higher requirements will stimulate information infrastructure innovation and development.