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.

(3) Joint construction and sharing of integrated infrastructure and information infrastructure. Converged infrastructure can facilitate the deployment of information infrastructure such as mobile base stations, transmission cables, and edge computing. In the construction of urban roads, expressways, railways, etc., optical cable lines, mobile base stations and other facilities should be considered, and communication pipelines, base station sites and power connection conditions should be reserved, and installation positions such as optical handover boxes and edge computing cabinets should be reserved at roadside and other locations. In the construction of smart city management facilities, street light poles, signal poles, power poles, etc. are important carriers of sensing equipment, which should be deployed in accordance with the multi-functional pole and tower mode, and conditions should be reserved for mobile base station antennas, cameras, and road side units (Rsus) of the Internet of vehicles as needed. In the planning of power facilities, it is necessary to pay attention to the impact of changes in computing location and computing density, do a good job in the medium and long term power supply guarantee of large ultra-large computing facilities, and provide convenience for power upgrade for edge computing deployment.

Third, promote the coordinated development of integrated infrastructure and information infrastructure

The "14th Five-Year Plan" is a period of great development of the new generation of information infrastructure and integrated infrastructure. Intensive co-construction, open sharing, can give full play to professional advantages, effectively reduce the construction and operation costs of new infrastructure, and improve the efficiency of resource utilization. The government, enterprises and research institutions should actively explore the road of coordinated development, strengthen the summary of experience, and transform good experience into a common construction path.

1. Strengthening coordination and joint efforts. The overall construction of integrated infrastructure and information infrastructure belongs to cross-industry and cross-field cooperation, and currently faces problems such as diverse construction and operation subjects, and difficult coordination of interest distribution. In particular, some integrated infrastructure construction is fragmented, and it is difficult to coordinate between the central and local governments, and no development model has been formed. Therefore, it is necessary to start from the top-level design, improve the coordination mechanism involving the macro-management departments and various infrastructure departments, promote the unified planning and overall construction of new infrastructure, explore the coordination mechanism of innovative information infrastructure and integrated infrastructure planning and construction, and deal with the cost and responsibility problems faced by the collaborative construction of integrated infrastructure and information infrastructure.

(2) Strengthening application traction. At present, many new types of infrastructure, especially integrated infrastructure, are still in the development stage, and local governments are actively exploring how to develop these infrastructure. It is necessary to steadily promote the construction of new infrastructure, especially integrated infrastructure, based on the needs and problems of local development stages, and the appropriately advanced construction of integrated infrastructure and application innovation are mutually conditional. On the one hand, it is necessary to encourage the active participation of users, put forward the demand for converged infrastructure, strengthen the collaborative innovation of information infrastructure and converged infrastructure in response to demand, and constantly enhance the capacity of infrastructure. On the other hand, it is also necessary to introduce policies to encourage users to adopt the services provided by converged infrastructure, and constantly promote the iterative upgrade of converged infrastructure and new infrastructure in use.

3. Encouraging capacity evolution. At this stage, the traditional infrastructure intelligent development or traditional information development mode, different regions, different enterprises independent development and construction, different systems or platforms exist connectivity, resource sharing, collaborative work difficulties and other problems, the Internet of vehicles, digital government, smart medical facilities are facing similar problems. It is necessary to unify development ideas, strengthen intensive co-construction and open sharing of computing, data and support capabilities, and develop some basic functions or capabilities into new infrastructure forms to provide services to more users. For example, the development of provincial or city level Internet hospitals, artificial intelligence assisted diagnosis and treatment platforms, government blockchain service networks, unified construction and operation of vehicle networking roadside facilities network and so on.