An action plan to double China’s computing power intended to propel China’s digital economy and compete on the global stage was released on October 8.
Six government agencies, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), issued a proposal to develop a computing power of 300 exaflops (EFLOPS) by 2035. An exaflop is a unit of computing power, and one EFLOPS computing system can complete 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second. It is equivalent to the computing power of two million laptops.
The MIIT said in August that China’s computing power had reached 197 EFLOPS, ranking second globally.
Computing power integrates information calculation, network load and data storage. It is an important infrastructure for supporting the digital economy by being intelligent, swift, safe, reliable and green. The increased power is needed to support applications across industries like education and finance, and the increased power and network connectivity through new hubs is expected to develop new industries, create jobs and improve efficiency.
The country’s data storage capacity is expected to exceed 1,800 exabytes by 2025, according to the plan, with disaster recovery systems covering all of the core databases in key fields, including industry, finance, medical care, transportation, education and energy. One exabyte equals a billion gigabytes.
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