(China Daily) Guian New Area, a national-level new urban area in Southwest China's Guizhou province, plans to build itself into one of the largest big data clusters globally over the next few years as part of its broad push to develop new infrastructure to stoke a fresh growth engine for the region, a local official said.
Chen Yan, a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, told China
Daily during the ongoing two sessions meeting that the new area plans
to "hub 12 mega data centers and 4 million servers with a fixed-asset
investment of over 40 billion yuan ($5.6 billion) by 2025".
"We are scrambling to build the new area into the country's largest
data center that is secure, green and intensive. We also plan to build
it into the biggest data cluster nationwide and even worldwide," said
Chen, who is also the mayor of Guiyang and director of the Working
Committee of Guian New Area.
"This year, a string of data centers, including that of Apple's
iCloud and tech giant Huawei Technologies' Co, will be completed in the
new area," he said.
The move is part of Guiyang's bigger plan to speed up the development
of new infrastructure, so as to spur a new wave of growth in the face
of the global novel coronavirus outbreak.
"Data centers, as the basic infrastructure of cloud computing, are an
indispensable part of the big data industry chain. It is also a new
infrastructure that is supported by the country currently," Chen added.
China has called for accelerated efforts to develop new
infrastructure. Differing from traditional infrastructure like railways,
highways and airports, the new type of infrastructure projects include
infrastructure for digital transformation, intelligent upgrades and
innovative development.
To embrace new industrial opportunities, Chen pointed out the area
will leverage new infrastructure to promote deeper digital
transformation and high-quality economic development.
"A string of new infrastructure projects will speed up construction
in Guiyang and the new area and a total of 23 billion yuan of investment
on new infrastructure is expected to embark within the year," Chen
added.
"The new area will also accelerate its steps in gathering companies
from emerging sectors including cloud computing, big data, the internet
of things and artificial intelligence. This will support new consumption
formats such as telecommuting, intelligent medical care, online
education, and fresh food e-commerce," he said.
Nestled in a mountainous region, Guiyang and the Guian New Area
provide a major engine of growth for the region. It has been transformed
in the past few years into an innovation hub as major global companies
such as Apple, Huawei and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd flocked to the area.
"Guizhou has already become an important part of the big data
industry in China and even the world. The company will strengthen
cooperation with Guizhou in a string of areas including cloud computing
and digital governance," Huawei Vice-President Lu Yong said.
Last year, over 100 big data projects valued at a total of 21.6
billion yuan were introduced in Guiyang. The city's software and
information technology revenue exceeded 16 billion yuan, having
increased by 14.3 percent year-on-year.
Source: By Cheng Yu in Beijing and Yang Jun in Guiyang |
China Daily |
Updated: 2020-05-28 07:40
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