{"id":67235,"date":"2025-08-14T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67235\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:01:09","slug":"china-leads-in-digital-infrastructure-ranks-second-worldwide-in-computing-power-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67235\/","title":{"rendered":"China leads in digital infrastructure, ranks second worldwide in computing power: official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ECNS) &#8212; China&#8217;s digital infrastructure has expanded rapidly since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, as the country now leads globally in scale and technological advancement while ranking second worldwide in total computing power, an official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on the progress of building a &#8220;digital China,&#8221; the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated that the &#8220;East data, west computing&#8221; project has boosted efficiency by channeling data demand from eastern regions to computing hubs in the west.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the nation&#8217;s eight hubs are located in western regions, where clean energy resources can be tapped to lower costs and reduce emissions, according to the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative also helps narrow regional gaps in development while supporting China&#8217;s push toward new digital industries.<\/p>\n<p>(By Zhang Dongfang)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/echinanews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/U435P886T30D169F196DT20150723092203.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Echinanews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/U435P886T30D169F203DT20150723092203.jpg\"\/><\/a>\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(ECNS) &#8212; China&#8217;s digital infrastructure has expanded rapidly since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[64,63,257,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-67235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-computing","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}