Perspective on the East and West| Explain the "Mission and Obligation" of the Eight Nodes

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments recently jointly issued a document agreeing to start the construction of national computing power hub nodes in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, yangtze river delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu and Ningxia, and planning 10 national data center clusters. At this point, the national integrated big data center system has completed the overall layout design, and the "East Number West Calculation" project has been officially launched. How will "Counting East and Counting West" open a new chapter in the computing power network? The communication world focuses on this topic, invites industry experts to express their views, and we look at the "East Counting West" together.

At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is reshaping the global economic structure. As the core productive force of the digital economy, computing power has become a new focus of global strategic competition. Up to now, the scale of continental data centers has reached 5 million standard racks, and the computing power has reached 130 billion billion floating-point operations per second. With the comprehensive and continuous penetration of digital technology into all fields of economy and society, the demand for computing power in the whole society is still very urgent, and it is expected to continue to grow rapidly at a rate of more than 20% per year.

In February, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Central Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the National Energy Administration jointly issued a notice agreeing to start the construction of national computing power hub nodes in 8 places, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Chengdu-Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, and Ningxia, and planned 10 national data center clusters. At this point, the national integrated big data center system has completed the overall layout design, and the "East Number West Calculation" project has been officially launched. Recently, Wang Qing, deputy chief engineer of the Institute of Industry and Planning of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, introduced in detail the layout and planning of the development strategy of "East Numbers and West Counting" to the all-media reporters of the communication world.

East node

Serve the implementation needs of major regional development strategies

In July 2021, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the Three-Year Action Plan for the Development of New Data Centers (2021-2023). The main goal of the Action Plan is to basically form a new data center development pattern with reasonable layout, advanced technology, green and low carbon, and the scale of computing power in three years that is compatible with the growth of digital economy. The overall layout continues to be optimized, and the national integrated computing power network national hub nodes, provincial data centers, and edge data centers are laid out in echelons. Among them, it will focus on promoting the construction of new data center clusters such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Chengdu-Chongqing to achieve large-scale computing capacity deployment and meet the needs of major regional development strategies.

At present, the eight nodes bear different roles and responsibilities in the "East Number West Calculation" according to the different user scale, industrial development, and resource guarantee. Wang Qing introduced. It is reported that the main role of the four major nodes in the east is to serve the implementation needs of major regional development strategies, positioned to further coordinate the layout of data centers within and around the city, to achieve large-scale computing power deployment and land, energy, water, electricity and other resources coordinated and sustainable, optimize the data center supply structure, and expand the computing power growth space. The specific positioning and scope are:

Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei hub - set up Zhangjiakou data center cluster. The starting area of Zhangjiakou data center cluster is Huailai County, Zhangbei County and Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou City. Focusing on data center clusters, we should pay close attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, actively undertake the real-time computing power demand in Beijing and other places, guide the migration of warm and cold business to the west, and build a real-time computing power center that radiates north China, northeast China and even the whole country.

Yangtze River Delta Hub - Set up a data center cluster and a Wuhu data center cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone. Among them, the starting area of the data center cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone is Qingpu District of Shanghai, Wujiang District of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and Jiashan County of Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province. The starting area of Wuhu data center cluster is Jiujiang District, Gejiang District and Wuwei City of Wuhu City. Around the two data center clusters, we will pay close attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, actively undertake the real-time computing power demand of the central cities in the Yangtze River Delta, guide the migration of warm and cold business to the west, and build a development pattern of "integrated coordination and radiation of computing resources in the Yangtze River Delta region".

Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Hub - Set up a Shaoguan data center cluster, and the boundary of the starting area is Shaoguan High-tech Zone. Focusing on the Shaoguan data center cluster, we should pay close attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, actively undertake the real-time computing power demand in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places, guide the migration of temperature and cooling business to the west, and build a real-time computing power center that radiates south China and even the whole country.

Chengdu-Chongqing Hub - Set up Tianfu data center cluster and Chongqing data center cluster. Among them, the starting area of Tianfu data center cluster is Shuangliu District, Pidu District and Jianyang City of Chengdu. The starting area of Chongqing data center cluster is Chongqing Liangjiang New Area Water and Soil New City, Western (Chongqing) Science City Bishan Area, and Chongqing Economic and Technological Development Zone. Around the two data center clusters, we should pay close attention to optimizing the layout of computing power, balance the deployment of computing power resources around the city and the city, and do a good job of connecting with the "east number and west calculation".

West node

Build a non-real-time computing power support base for the whole country

With the determination and further advancement of the eastern computing power node, in February this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and the four departments announced that they agreed to start the construction of a national integrated computing power network national hub node in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Chengdu-Chongqing region, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The western node includes four hub nodes in Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Ningxia. "The main role of the four major nodes in the west is to build a non-real-time computing power guarantee base for the whole country, positioning itself to give full play to the advantages of resources, consolidate the basic guarantee such as the network, improve the quality and utilization efficiency of computing power services, and actively undertake non-real-time computing power needs such as background processing, offline analysis, storage and backup nationwide." Wang Qing told reporters. thereinto:

Guizhou hub - set up Gui'an data center cluster, the boundary of the starting area is Gui'an Electronic Information Industrial Park in Gui'an New District. Focusing on the Gui'an data center cluster, we will pay close attention to optimizing the stock, improving the efficiency of resource utilization, mainly supporting the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and actively undertaking the computing power demand in the eastern region.

Inner Mongolia hub - set up Helinger data center cluster, the boundary of the starting area is Helinger New Area and Jining Big Data Industrial Park. Give full play to the location advantages of the cluster adjacent to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, provide support for the high-real-time computing power demand of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and provide non-real-time computing power guarantee for the Yangtze River Delta and other regions.

Gansu hub - set up Qingyang data center cluster, the boundary of the starting area is Qingyang Xifeng data information industry cluster. It is necessary to respect the law of the market, pay attention to the quality of development, build a data center cluster featuring green, intensive and safe, and focus on serving the computing power needs of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, yangtze river delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other regions.

Ningxia Hub - Set up a Zhongwei data center cluster, and the boundary of the starting area is the western cloud base of Zhongwei Industrial Park. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of regional renewable energy enrichment, actively undertake the demand for computing power in the east, and guide data centers to take an efficient, clean, intensive and circular green development path。

Computing power has become an important infrastructure for the development of the national economy. Accelerating the construction of computing power will effectively stimulate the innovation vitality of data elements, accelerate the process of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, give birth to new technologies, new industries, new formats and new models, and support high-quality economic development. At the same time, the implementation of the "East Counting West" project can also promote the rational layout of data centers, optimize supply and demand, green intensification and interconnection, etc., which is of great significance to the economic development of the mainland. The National Development and Reform Commission clearly proposed that it is necessary to further increase the overall planning efforts, give play to the policy superposition effect, integrate to promote the optimization of the layout of computing power and the reform and innovation of institutional mechanisms, accelerate the improvement of the influence and agglomeration of the eight major computing power hubs, and drive the coordinated development of the integration of national computing power. In the future, the mainland will also accelerate the full-speed advancement of the "East Counting West" strategy in four aspects: strengthening the connection of network facilities, strengthening the linkage of energy layout, supporting the integration of technological innovation and promoting the expansion of the industry and ecology.

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Author: Wang Yurong

Editor-in-Charge/Layout: Fan Fan

Review: Shen Qing

Producer: Liu Qicheng

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