On October 16, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and went to the Chahar High-tech Development Zone to learn about the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region's promotion of the construction of hub nodes for the "Eastern Digital and Western Calculation" project and the development of the green computing industry.
In the Chahar High-tech Development Zone in autumn, the cool breeze blows against our faces. Computing power centers are rising from the ground, where massive amounts of data are aggregated and processed, and millisecond-level data interactions are performed through optical cables leading directly to Beijing.
As an important part of the national computing power hub of "Eastern Digital and Western Computing", Ulanqab City has achieved positive results in the development of green computing power industry based on its advantages such as green power, climate, and location: 109 computing power center projects have been signed. As of August 2026, the computing power scale has reached 190,000P, of which intelligent computing accounts for more than 90%.
The transformation of a resource-based city into a computing center is a useful exploration of “promoting high-quality development in accordance with local conditions.”
General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized adapting measures to local conditions to develop new productive forces and promote high-quality development.
Inner Mongolia “has scenery above its head, coal under its feet, and power grid in its hands.” General Secretary Xi Jinping is very concerned about how to give full play to its unique endowment advantages and improve the quality and level of economic development, and has given guidance many times.
In January 2014, when General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Inner Mongolia for investigation, he proposed that "when planning careers and seeking development, we must go beyond the local area, beyond the limitations of natural conditions, and beyond Inner Mongolia, with a broad world vision and a sense of the overall situation."
During the National Two Sessions in 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the deliberation of the Inner Mongolia delegation and emphasized the need to find Inner Mongolia's position in the country's construction of a new development pattern, conduct an in-depth analysis of its own areas of advantage and shortcomings, and "develop strategic emerging industries and advanced manufacturing in accordance with local conditions."
During an inspection of the Zhonghuan Industrial Park in Hohhot City in June 2023, the General Secretary emphasized that "promoting the transformation and upgrading of the traditional energy industry, vigorously developing green energy, and making the country's important energy base bigger and stronger are the top priorities for the development of Inner Mongolia."
During this inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping further pointed out that it is necessary to actively extend the industrial chain and "continuously transform computing power advantages into development advantages" and encouraged everyone to "make more contributions to promoting the construction of Digital China and promoting the development of new quality productive forces."
From energy to computing power, from the transformation of traditional industries to laying the foundation for new productive forces, it is progressive and deepened step by step. The sincere instructions are full of expectations for the new advancement and guidance based on local conditions.
To adapt to local conditions, we must not only know how to promote our own strengths and give full play to our unique advantages; we must also look at the overall situation and meet the needs of overall development.
As an important engine for the development of new productivity, artificial intelligence has risen rapidly, driving the computing power industry to flourish. In the first year of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, “computing and computing collaboration” was written into the government work report for the first time. In April this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping chaired a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to make arrangements to strengthen the planning and construction of the "six networks" including computing power networks and new power grids.
"The computing power industry is in a stage of accelerated development and has broad prospects." General Secretary Xi Jinping made a major judgment.
Facing the upsurge of development, various regions represented by Inner Mongolia should make scientific plans based on their comparative advantages, proactively integrate into the national integrated computing network, and adhere to staggered development and complementary advantages. This is also an inherent requirement to keep the overall situation in mind and serve the national strategy.
During this inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that implementing the "Eastern Counting and Western Counting" project and building a national integrated computing power network is an important deployment of the Party Central Committee. Regarding the development of the computing power industry, it is clear that it is necessary to "conscientiously implement the requirements of efficiency, greenness, and safety, and focus on 'computing power synergy' and 'computing water synergy'".
Efficiency means intensive scheduling and improving computing power efficiency; green means relying on green power supply to promote low-carbon computing power; security means building a solid line of defense and ensuring the reliability of computing power. The overall planning and linkage between computing and electricity, computing and water demonstrates the direction of comprehensive policy implementation and is a vivid embodiment of the system concept.
my country has a vast territory, with obvious differences in resource endowments between the east, west, south, and north. At present, various phased deployments of Chinese-style modernization are being pushed forward, which puts forward more urgent requirements for local governments to plan and promote the next step of work.
Just as General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized to “keep up with the trend of the times, seize development opportunities, base on one’s own conditions and give full play to comparative advantages”, all localities will follow the strategic decisions and planning arrangements of the Party Central Committee, explore transformation paths according to local conditions, cultivate distinctive advantages, and activate development vitality, and will surely jointly advance the cause of Chinese-style modernization steadily.
