Liu Liehong

China highlights data and ‘digital silk road’ in new plan to drive innovation as US tech rivalry intensifies

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China highlights data and ‘digital silk road’ in new plan to drive innovation as US tech rivalry intensifies

The plan was released by the National Development Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Data Administration (NDA), and excerpts were made public on the NDA’s WeChat account on Monday. China’s new data agency plans fast track to powerful national computing network The NDA is supervised by the NDRC, China’s top economic planner, and was inaugurated … Read more

China is spending billions on a national computing network. Its data chief says why

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China is spending billions on a national computing network. Its data chief says why

“Frontier technologies and future industries represented by new materials, biopharmaceuticals, gene technology, and deep sea, air and space exploration, have created an unprecedented demand for computing power infrastructure. “A unified computing system would optimise resources, lower costs and help the country to achieve breakthroughs in cutting-edge tech such as quantum information.” 01:36 AI chip maker … Read more