“Frontier technologies and future industries represented by new materials, biopharmaceuticals, genetic technology, deep sea, aviation, and space exploration are creating unprecedented demand for computing power infrastructure.
“An integrated computing system will optimize resources, reduce costs, and help the country achieve breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies such as quantum information.”
To this end, the company established NDA last October as a promoter of the digital economy and regulator of the burgeoning data management sector.
Officials have also indicated they will be more tolerant of failures in science and technology to give young researchers more space to overcome a culture of risk aversion and find ways to realize national goals. .
China ranks second after the United States in total computing power and aims to halve that capacity by 2025.
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The motivation for doing so is clear. In a report released last August, Tsinghua University, International Data Corporation, and Chinese big data provider Inspar found that for every percentage point increase in the computing power index of the three companies, the country's digital economy said that its total growth rate increased by 0.36%. Domestic products are 0.17%.
The index is compiled to track the overall computing power, computing efficiency, applications, and infrastructure development of a sample of 15 countries.
It is designed to unite computing centers across the country to create a pool of general-purpose, intelligent, supercomputing power and is expected to be operational by next year.
The project was launched in 2022 and aims to address the regional imbalance in digital resources between China's richer eastern regions and the energy-rich west.
Liu said the project will also reduce economic disparities between regions and attract more professionals to the interior.
Local governments have started pouring money into this area.
Construction work on a computing center in Shenzhen began in January, with the first phase estimated to cost 466 million yuan.
Once completed, the center will be able to process 1.6 billion images and 1.9 million hours of speech translation in an hour, making it the most advanced and most expensive operation of its kind in the Pearl River Delta region.
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To improve network efficiency, local governments should “avoid unplanned construction,” Liu warned.
Computing clusters across the country must be consolidated to accelerate economies of scale, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.
He also said that while concentrating computing power would make better use of resources, it would also create security challenges.
“There is an urgent need to strengthen the coordination of security systems across countries. We also need to prevent risks from regional network failures, power outages and extreme conditions,” he said.
Additionally, industry and academia should work together to advance electronics, communications and computer science, he said.