On September 4, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other 11 departments jointly issued the Notice on Matters Relating to the Promotion of the Coordinated Development of New Information Infrastructure, deploying the optimization of the overall layout of the new information infrastructure, and enhancing the level of development of the new information infrastructure system and service capacity, in order to better cultivate and develop the new quality of productive forces to provide basic support.
New information infrastructure is the information artery of economic and social development. In terms of composition, new information infrastructure mainly refers to the infrastructure generated based on the evolution of new-generation information and communication technologies, such as network infrastructure represented by 5G, mobile Internet of Things, satellite Internet, etc., arithmetic infrastructure represented by data centers, intelligent computing centers, etc., and new technological infrastructure represented by artificial intelligence and blockchain. The new generation of information and communication technology is the most active and frequent innovation field at present, and its iterative upgrading also leads to the continuous updating and enrichment of the form of new information infrastructure.
New information infrastructure is the foundation for the digital transformation of the economy and society.The Central Economic Work Conference held in December 2018 proposed new infrastructure construction for the first time. The industry believes that the “new infrastructure” including 5G base stations, ultra-high voltage, intercity high-speed railroads and other seven major areas, involving many industrial chains, will build the basic network to support the new momentum of China's economy. Information infrastructure is a major part of the “new infrastructure”. Practice has proved that the new information infrastructure plays an important supporting role for high-quality development, and the innovation-driven and intelligent upgrading features it implies are the key elements for cultivating new quality productivity.
China has formed a pattern of comprehensive development of network, computing power and new technology infrastructure. Moderately advanced construction is a common feature of new infrastructure. Being ahead of the curve is to stimulate and drive industrial development and innovation, to promote application by construction, and to win the first opportunity in the new round of change; moderately, it is to consider the uncertainty of the development path and business model of new-generation information technology, and not to overdo the rapid development. Guided by this purpose, China has built the world's largest and technologically leading 5G network, fiber-optic broadband network and mobile Internet of Things network, the scale and level of arithmetic infrastructure among the world's forefront, and the flourishing rise of new technology facilities.
Continuing to accelerate the construction of new information infrastructure focuses on synergy. The integration of new information infrastructure with traditional infrastructure has always been a difficult problem, and new information infrastructure itself also has the problem of difficult cross-regional, cross-network and cross-industry synergy. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee adopted the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reforms and Promoting Chinese Modernization”, which proposes to build a new infrastructure planning and standard system, improve the integration and utilization mechanism of new infrastructure, promote the digital transformation of traditional infrastructure, broaden the diversified investment and financing channels, and improve the coordination mechanism for the construction of major infrastructures. It is also synergy that is emphasized.
Inter-regional synergy is for the sake of balanced inclusion. The current level of new information infrastructure regional differentiation is obvious, to narrow the development gap, but also in the central, western and northeastern regions to carry out a number of major projects tailored to local conditions, to enhance the overall level of development. Over the years, universal telecommunications services have effectively narrowed the digital divide between urban and rural areas, and should continue to be deepened to enhance the level of broadband network coverage in rural and remote areas and promote synergistic development between urban and rural areas.
Inter-network synergy is to enhance effectiveness. It is necessary to solve the problem of synergistic construction between different specialized facilities, such as promoting the synergistic development of a variety of heterogeneous networks such as 5G and gigabit optical networks, satellite networks and terrestrial networks, and low, medium and high-speed mobile Internet of Things, encouraging the synergistic development of networks and arithmetic facilities, and promoting arithmetic interconnection and interoperability.
Inter-industry synergy is to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Network co-construction and sharing significantly reduces input costs and improves network utilization, and the same applies to the co-construction and sharing of new information infrastructure and traditional infrastructure. On the one hand, to promote 5G, artificial intelligence and other facilities to better serve the intelligent development of traditional infrastructure, accelerate the construction of vehicle networking and other convergence facilities; on the other hand, to strengthen the new information infrastructure and other infrastructure cross-industry construction and sharing, to enhance the level of intensive and efficient development. In short, many measures, in order to strongly open the information artery, promote the formation of new quality productivity. (news agency)