25 Data Flow Nodes Established Nationwide, Expected to Expand to 50 by Year-End
[Daheng Financial Cube News] August 14, the National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference to introduce the achievements of digital China construction during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Ms. Xia Bing, Vice Director of the National Data Bureau, introduced that as of now, a total of 25 data flow nodes cities have been established nationwide, covering 16 provincial-level administrative regions and fully completing interconnection in July. It is expected to expand to around 50 cities by year-end, covering over 80% of provincial-level administrative regions, laying the foundation for large-scale data cross-border transmission.
Ms. Xia Bing emphasized that the data infrastructure construction work started last year and is a phased arrangement, with two key focuses: one is to standardize and reach consensus in the data field, achieving "carrying the same load and speaking the same language"; the other is to carry out pilot projects and focus on practical applications, ensuring that the facility construction is effective and well-operated. The specific progress can be briefly summarized from three dimensions:
Firstly, striving for goals. To achieve the goal of releasing data value, large-scale transmission is crucial. One important prerequisite for achieving this goal is to establish consensus among different industries and regions, forming a unified standard and technical architecture. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the National Data Bureau issued the "Guidelines for Building the National Data Infrastructure" and established a reference architecture for data infrastructure, clarified the requirements for interconnection, and proposed nine key technology specifications, including anonymization processing.
Secondly, focusing on issues. The data field has some common difficulties or pain points, including "difficult to find and use numbers", "difficult to scale transmission", and "difficult to cross-border processing". In response to these difficulties, the National Data Bureau organized six technical routes for innovation exploration, such as number spaces and trusted data spaces, through accelerating key technology breakthroughs related to data infrastructure, adaptive scenario applications, and unified standard validation work. The facility's functional aspects have achieved data "one-point release, all-region visibility" and application "one-point deployment, cross-regional usability". For example, in March of this year, seven domestic scientific data centers collaborated to build a standardized data infrastructure, aggregating scattered data from various units and providing a foundation for 20+ models and massive data joint scheduling and cross-border interaction. This has achieved a 6.5-fold increase in data processing efficiency and greatly promoted multi-disciplinary collaborative innovation work.
Finally, focusing on industries. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, data infrastructure construction attracted over 2000 entities, including data exchanges, data developers, and users. In terms of facility standard-setting, more than 1200 units from production, academia, and research participated actively, widely gathering consensus; in terms of facility applications, supporting government governance, financial risk control, and hundreds of scenarios, nearly 10,000 data products were launched, forming a good industry development trend with data infrastructure construction operation, security support as the focal point.
It can be said that data infrastructure construction is still in its initial stage. Looking to the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the National Data Bureau will further focus on building high-quality standards, large-scale facility deployment, and market-oriented ecological operation, continuously constructing a convenient, efficient, self-contained, and world-leading national-level data infrastructure to effectively support digital economic development, technological innovation, and the construction of a unified national market.
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