The picture shows workers of China Telecom Lu ‘an Branch installing and debugging 5G base station equipment. Xinhua news agency
Recently, new infrastructure has attracted much attention from all walks of life. What is the specific connotation of new infrastructure and where is new? How to build and make good use of new infrastructure? This edition has published two reports on "Innovative Passwords of New Infrastructure", so please pay attention.
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At present, the central government has made important arrangements to speed up the construction of new infrastructure, and many investment and construction plans have been launched, and the technology industry, especially digital technology companies, have participated in new infrastructure.
Why is the new infrastructure receiving so much attention? Why did you choose to press the "fast forward key" at this time? The reporter interviewed a number of relevant experts.
Where is the new infrastructure?
The new infrastructure mainly refers to the new infrastructure represented by 5G, data center, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and Internet of Things, which is essentially the infrastructure of information digitization.
Not long ago, the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) Conference emphasized "speeding up the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks and data centers". Previously, the National Development and Reform Commission made clear the scope of new infrastructure for the first time, and will jointly study and issue relevant guiding opinions to promote the development of new infrastructure, and press the "fast forward button" for the construction of new infrastructure.
What is new infrastructure? What are the differences between it and traditional infrastructure?
Infrastructure is the foundation of economic and social activities, which has the basic characteristics of foundation, forerunner and publicity, and is very important to the development of national economy.
"Traditional infrastructure construction mainly refers to ‘ Tiegongji ’ , including railways, highways, airports, ports, water conservancy facilities and other construction projects, plays an important fundamental role in the process of China’s economic development. The new infrastructure mainly refers to the new infrastructure represented by 5G, data center, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and Internet of Things, which is essentially the infrastructure of information digitization. " Pan Jiaofeng, dean of the Science and Technology Strategy Consulting Institute of China Academy of Sciences, said.
Traditional infrastructure has solved the connection between things and people, and the construction of roads and airports has brought prosperous business to the region. The new digital infrastructure solves the connection, interaction and processing of data. New technologies such as 5G, cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as the infrastructure of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, will bring more space for industrial upgrading and promote the formation of new products and services, new production systems and new business models.
Railways and expressways are the infrastructure in the industrial age, and in the information age, more infrastructure capabilities such as computing power and algorithms with data as the key element are reflected. Su Meng, Chairman and CEO of Beijing Percentage Information Technology Co., Ltd. described that, in terms of factors, if the data element is "oil" and the new infrastructure is "oil wells and oil pipelines", then data intelligence is "refining technology and equipment"; Data intelligence processes resources into usable and high-value products and services.
Gao Hongwei, chairman of China Aerospace Science and Industry Group Co., Ltd., said that China’s infrastructure construction has gone through three stages: the first stage aims at establishing the production system and production capacity of energy and industrial products, and the second stage aims at improving "circulation capacity building" and "urbanization construction". At present, in the third stage, the main goal is to provide the infrastructure system of industrial governance, information governance, ecological governance and security governance services, including the information governance infrastructure.
Liu Song, vice president of Alibaba, believes that the new infrastructure is an innovation in infrastructure, which can promote the creation of new services and new formats. It can change the basic mode of scientific research, R&D design and supply chain collaboration. For example, establishing a new value network based on data creation in the production process can transmit consumer demand to the production side in real time. This digital infrastructure can greatly improve the economic efficiency of all factors.
Liu Song said that the next 10 years will be the "installation period" of new infrastructure. At present, based on the new generation of digital technologies such as 5G, data center, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and Internet of Things, various digital platforms including shopping, travel, entertainment, government affairs, and intelligent manufacturing have been formed. These platforms are also the infrastructure for digital industrialization and industrial digitalization. In addition, the traditional infrastructure, such as "TieGong Ji", has been digitally transformed to form a converged infrastructure. With the addition of technologies such as 3D printing, intelligent robots, AR glasses and autonomous driving, the new infrastructure will be a brand-new technical prospect.
What’s the use of new infrastructure
Advanced intelligent technology is deeply integrated with industry, and new infrastructure will accelerate the intelligent transformation of traditional industries such as finance, manufacturing and energy.
Use big data technology to build an epidemic spread model, and quickly evaluate and predict the source of infection, spread speed, spread path and spread risk of the virus; Artificial intelligence remote consultation, auxiliary diagnosis and image analysis can effectively reduce the risk of close contact infection of medical staff and greatly improve the diagnostic efficiency; Many enterprises open their computing power free of charge, support viral gene sequencing, new drug research and development, and help scientific research institutions shorten the research and development cycle … …
In the prevention and control of epidemic situation and the resumption of production in COVID-19, behind the new things and formats such as health code, online courses and smart retail, the new generation of information technologies such as 5G, big data, artificial intelligence and supercomputing are put into use, which shows the powerful supporting role of new infrastructure.
The new infrastructure will deeply integrate advanced intelligent technology with industry, which will accelerate the intelligent transformation of traditional industries such as finance, manufacturing and energy.
In the energy industry, the wind field of wind power generation is mostly distributed in remote areas, and the team of engineers is resident in R&D centers in different places, so it is difficult to carry out on-site operation and maintenance of wind turbine equipment. Due to the complex internal structure of large-scale wind power equipment, local managers of wind farms often can’t predict faults and maintenance well, resulting in high equipment maintenance costs and difficult to reduce operating costs. "Industrial Internet combined with cloud computing and Internet of Things technology can help solve such problems and reduce operation and maintenance costs." Qiao Jian, vice president of Lenovo Group, said.
In the aerospace field, the industrial Internet also plays an important role in boosting digital transformation. China Aerospace Science and Industry Group Co., Ltd., an aerospace electrical company located in Guizhou, has realized the whole process, automation and intelligence from marketing signing to development and production scheduling, from supply chain and manufacturing to settlement and after-sales, and solved the problem of agile response to market diversity. "At present, the company has hundreds of thousands of orders a year, and can handle up to 2,000 orders a day, which can meet the needs of single-piece and small-batch production of various personalized products and achieve simultaneous improvement in efficiency, quality and efficiency." Gao Hongwei said.
The new infrastructure can also promote the upgrading and development of basic industries, especially the information technology industry, which not only drives the industry itself to expand its scale, but also promotes the development and growth of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
Taking 5G as an example, the construction of 5G network not only involves a large number of infrastructure investments such as factories, base stations and power supply, but also drives the transformation and upgrading of various industries such as factory renovation, construction and operation, system upgrade and technical training. According to the forecast of China Xintong Institute, by 2025, the accumulated investment in 5G network construction will reach 1.2 trillion yuan, which will drive the related investment to exceed 3.5 trillion yuan.
Some experts pointed out that the new infrastructure will also promote the deepening of basic research, promote more achievements in the fields of cloud computing, artificial intelligence algorithms and chips, and help to fill the shortcomings in the field of science and technology.
Why did you press the "fast forward key" at this time?
It is not only an objective need to cope with the downward pressure on the economy, but also a strategic choice made on the basis of profound insight and grasp of the general trend of world science and technology and industrial changes.
In recent years, China has been striving to seize the opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution, vigorously develop the digital economy, and promote industrial optimization and upgrading. The planning and layout of the new infrastructure has already begun. Why do you choose to press the "fast forward button" at this time?
Experts said that this decision is not only an objective need to cope with the downward pressure on the economy, but also a strategic choice made on the basis of profound insight and grasp of the general trend of world science and technology and industrial changes.
Mars, a first-class inspector of the Information Technology Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, believes that in the face of the challenges of increasing downward pressure on the economy, declining marginal benefits of traditional infrastructure investment and declining industrial penetration, promoting the construction of new digital infrastructure is an effective way to hedge the impact of the epidemic, optimize the investment structure and stimulate economic growth in China.
Creating new kinetic energy for economic development is inseparable from the strong support of informationization, digitalization and intelligence. Ma Yuan, founder and CEO of Pengsi Technology, believes that the concentrated outbreak of online demand during the epidemic shows the potential of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing to drive the overall social and economic development, and objectively opens the window of new infrastructure.
Pan Jiaofeng analyzed that as China’s economy shifts from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development, the maladjustment of the original infrastructure system becomes more prominent, and based on the new era and new mission, the infrastructure system must be strategically adjusted.
Accelerating the promotion of new infrastructure, the value is not only immediate. 5G, data center, industrial Internet and other fields are advanced. Investing in new infrastructure is actually investing in the future and providing long-term services. Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, believes that the new infrastructure is a wave of infrastructure construction around the new hard core of economy, science and technology, which injects powerful "digital power" into China’s economic transformation and upgrading, and stores energy for high-quality development.
"In the long run, the new infrastructure is a strategic, pilot and overall project with a strong foundation and long-term benefits. We must focus on the long-term and not be divorced from the national conditions, and we must do what we can." Wan Jinbo, a researcher at the Science and Technology Strategy Consulting Institute of China Academy of Sciences, said.
Gao Hongwei said that the enterprises participating in the new infrastructure should also have the ability, determination and patience, do things with professional counterparts, take a long-term view, and ensure the speed and quality of the new infrastructure. (Reporter Wu Yuehui Gu Yekai Yu Jianbin)
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