Localities ramp up digital infrastructure construction, transformation in China

A 5G intelligent robot helps maintenance personnel inspect the power supply equipment for the high-speed railway in Chuzhou City, East China’s Anhui Province on January 17, 2022. Smart technology has played an important role in China’s high-speed railway. Photo: cnsphoto Chinese local authorities have been stepping up rolling out detailed plans to boost digital construction and transformation after the central government reiterated the emphasis on the nation’s digital development in recent months. In the latest move, Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region unveiled a "1244+N" action plan on Tuesday to promote the construction of digital infrastructure upgrading projects in western China. This includes building 2,000 new local 5G base stations, bringing the total to 12,000. The plan also vowed to accelerate the development of data center clusters, to build five super-large data centers, and bring the output value of the digital information industry to 85 billion yuan ($12.36 billion) within this year. Authorities in East China’s Anhui Province, will promote the digital transformation of 5,000 manufacturing enterprises above designated size in key industries and 30,000 digital applications of manufacturing enterprises below designated size this year, according to a report from chinanews.com on Monday. To help major manufacturers to boost […]

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