At the main forum of the "2022 World Telecommunications and Information Society Day Conference" held on May 17, 2022, Yu Xiaohui, President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that the development of the digital economy requires the support of new infrastructure construction, which will be held on the 14th Create a market space of 10 trillion yuan during the five-year period. Among them, the importance of computing infrastructure will continue to increase, and the next five years will usher in a huge development of computing infrastructure in China.

Yu Xiaohui said that in the context of the spread of the global epidemic, the digital economy has played a very important role in economic recovery. At the same time, the epidemic has further accelerated the global digitalization process, and the global digitalization process of products and services has been advanced by seven years. It is expected that from 2022 to 2024, the average growth rate of global digital spending will reach 17%, which is 6 percentage points higher than the previous three years.

According to data from the Academy of Information and Communications Technology, in 2020, the scale of China's digital economy will be 39.2 trillion yuan, accounting for 38.6% of GDP, of which the scale of digital industrialization will be 7.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 7.3% of GDP. Industrialization and digitalization reached 31.7 trillion yuan, accounting for 31.2% of GDP.

"Industrial digitization and digital industrialization are the main battlefields of the fourth industrial revolution." Yu Xiaohui pointed out that in the past ten years, industrial digitization has accounted for a larger proportion of GDP than digital industrialization, indicating that the positive externalities of information and communication technology are increasing. growing. By 2025, the digital economy will enter a period of comprehensive expansion, and the added value of the core industries of the digital economy will account for 10% of GDP. It is estimated that the scale of the digital economy will exceed 60 trillion yuan, of which digital industrialization will exceed 10 trillion and industrial digitization will exceed 50 trillion.

The development of digital economy needs the support of new infrastructure construction

The new infrastructure will create a scale of 10 trillion during the 14th Five-Year Plan. Among them, the importance of computing power infrastructure will continue to increase, and every 1 yuan of computing power invested will drive 3-4 yuan of economic output.

According to data from the Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China's total computing power will reach 135EFlops in 2020, accounting for about 31% of the global total, maintaining a rapid growth of 55%. In terms of the development of data centers and cloud computing, as of 2021, the total number of data center racks in use in China will be 5.2 million, with an average annual growth rate of more than 30% in the past five years; IDC market revenue will reach 150 billion yuan in 2021. The three-year average annual growth rate was 30.7. The size of China's cloud computing market will be 303 billion yuan in 2021, with a growth rate of 45%, much higher than the global average growth rate of 29.5%.

"Cloud usage has become an indicator of the vitality of the development of the digital economy. The top 10 provinces in terms of cloud usage are basically the same as the provinces with better development of the digital economy." Yu Xiaohui said that the current cloud adoption rate of Chinese enterprises is about 30%, and cloud service expenditures It accounts for 0.04% of GDP, while the cloud service expenditure in the United States accounts for 0.54% of GDP, which is probably more than 10 times that of China. Therefore, there is still a lot of room for development in China's cloud and computing power.

Yu Xiaohui predicts that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the average annual growth rate of data center racks is about 20%, the revenue growth rate is about 25%-30%, and the average annual growth rate of cloud computing revenue exceeds 30%. The next five years will usher in China's computing power facilities. huge development.

In terms of 5G progress, by the end of 2021, China has built more than 1.425 million 5G base stations, accounting for more than 60% of the world's total.

"At present, we have achieved a breakthrough of 'from 0 to 1' and reached the stage of replication from '1 to 10', but there is still a certain distance from the stage of large-scale replication of 'from 10 to 100, to 1000'. The process of exploration and trial and error." Yu Xiaohui said frankly that the in-depth integration of 5G technology and industry is something that 4G has never tried before, and it is necessary to solve the standardization problems of each industry and the threshold and demand problems of the industry. There are many successful 5G commercial technologies in major industries, and 5G application innovation is moving from "edge exploration" to "incremental innovation". Editor / Xu Shengpeng