The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, along with 10 other government bodies, have issued a notice to promote the coordinated development of new information infrastructure on September 4.

New information infrastructure is the information "artery" of socioeconomic development, which mainly includes network infrastructure such as 5G network, computing infrastructure, represented by data centers, AI infrastructure and other new technology facilities.

Combined with the growing technological trend of new information infrastructure and the needs of socioeconomic development, the notice clearly strengthens development in seven aspects, including national overall layout, cross-regional coordination, and cross-network coordination.

Telecommunications enterprises are encouraged to strengthen the overall layout of the national optical cable network, formulate long-term plans for international communications facilities, and cooperate with transportation, energy and other related enterprises to build cross-border infrastructure such as international railways, and international oil and gas pipelines, said the notice.

Differentiated measures should be implemented to optimize the layout of computing infrastructure. In addition, enterprises are encouraged to develop computing cloud services and explore the construction of national or regional service platforms.

To strengthen cross-regional balanced and inclusive development, the notice emphasized that all localities should deepen cross-provincial planning and construction cooperation, and that the central city and surrounding areas will coordinate the layout of computing facilities.

To deepen balanced and coordinated development among regions, the east regions are expected to explore new application models such as 5G-A, the western regions are encouraged to explore the construction of ultra-large AI training computing power facilities in areas with obvious comprehensive cost advantages, and the border provinces will make use of foreign cooperation mechanisms to build international information hubs with regional advantages.

The construction of 5G and optical fiber networks in rural areas will be promoted, and the quality of network coverage in rural governance will also be improved.

In addition, all localities should carry out the "signal upgrade" special action, improve basic platforms such as urban information models, and promote the integration of platform functions.

According to the notice, to deepen the cross-industry co-construction and sharing of infrastructure, the local communication administration will work with the relevant industry authorities to establish a cross-industry co-construction and sharing demand list, promoting the opening up of towers, optical cables and other resources in the fields of communications, transportation, and municipal administration.