{"id":65943,"date":"2025-08-14T08:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65943\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:11:09","slug":"china-leads-in-digital-infrastructure-ranks-second-worldwide-in-computing-power-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65943\/","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\/uk\/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\/uk\/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":54049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4323,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-65943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-computing","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}