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The project, approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and three other departments, marks the completion of the overall layout for the national integrated big-data center system.
The eight national computing hubs will be built in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, southwest China's Guizhou Province, northwest China's Gansu Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The eight hubs will develop data-center clusters, carry out collaborative construction within data centers, cloud computing and big data, and bridge the gap between eastern and western regions in computing resources, to better empower digital development.
Like the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and the west-east power transmission program, this project, which optimizes the nationwide resource allocation and improve resource utilization efficiency, will raise the country's overall computing capacity, promote green development, expand effective investment and coordinate development among regions, NDRC official Sun Wei said.