China News Service, Beijing, September 16 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The 2026 Computing Power Network Development Conference was held in Beijing from September 15 to 16. Focusing on the computing power network, one of the country's "six networks", academicians and experts, representatives from scientific research institutes, industry leaders, investment institutions and other representatives gathered together to explore the path to the construction of a national integrated computing network system, technological innovation and ecological collaboration, aiming to build a foundation for integrated, intelligent and green computing power to accelerate the construction of a network power, digital China and smart society.
Experts offer advice
Mei Jianping, chairman of the Computing Power Network Special Committee of the China Information Association, pointed out that the conference, with the theme of "Foundation Building, Integration, Collaboration, and Empowerment," covers core industry topics such as new computing infrastructure construction, computing network integration, computing and power collaboration, green intelligent computing, and AI agents, and builds an industry-university-research collaborative innovation platform to promote the high-quality development of China's computing infrastructure.
Release joint initiative. Photo provided by the organizer
Li Meng, chairman of the China Sustainable Development Research Society, said that the construction of computing power systems and computing power networks is a systematic project. To promote the collaboration of multiple computing power, we must not only improve the construction of computing power scheduling platform, but also continue to research core technologies such as computing power ecological adaptation, and build an integrated computing power support system that is safe, efficient, inclusive and usable.
According to Wang Jinping, president of the China Information Association, in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan", the computing power network was included in the national "six networks" infrastructure system, and the computing power industry entered a stage of high-quality development. The systematic construction of the computing power network requires not only the scientific guidance of the national strategy, but also the innovative practice of market entities, and the collaborative progress of all parties. He called on the industry to work together to promote the construction of a national integrated computing power network.
Gao Wen, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and director of Pengcheng Laboratory, believes that open source and openness are the core key elements for the success of China's artificial intelligence. He proposed that the development path of integrated circuits is evolving from cutting-edge process design and production that purely pursues physical size processing to 3D hybrid design and packaging, which opens up space for the design and production of core chips for the construction of China's computing power network.
Qian Depei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Beihang University, proposed that super-intelligence integration is a historical necessity and will effectively promote the construction and application of national computing infrastructure. At the same time, the industry must explore new models and mechanisms for computing power operations and improve the application and service levels of computing power infrastructure.
Lu Weifeng, vice president of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposed that intelligent software supports efficient collaboration of computing power, network, and data, and promotes a leap in the efficiency of intelligent application development. He predicts five major innovation and development directions: the next generation computing power center intelligent operating system, the wide-area computing network integrated scheduling platform, the heterogeneous fusion basic software stack, the computing and power collaborative scheduling platform for green and low-carbon scenarios, and the new human-computer integration software environment.
Yuan Jun, deputy director of the National Data Development Institute, proposed the "five hard and three soft" as the overall implementation framework, including consolidating the five major hardware bases of the national integrated computing power monitoring and dispatching platform, multi-level computing power supply facilities, computing power coordination facilities, computing network transmission channels, and security protection facilities, and improving the three major soft supports of the computing power network standard system, market-oriented operation mechanism, and collaborative governance operation system, and coordinating and promoting the high-quality construction and efficient operation of the national integrated computing power network.
Guo Mingjun, director of the Computing Power Economics Division of the Big Data Development Department of the National Information Center, believes that computing power monitoring and dispatching is an important part of the construction of a computing power network and is of great significance for realizing the inclusive application of computing power. It is necessary to coordinate high-quality resources from all parties, gather collaborative development efforts, build a national integrated monitoring and dispatching platform, and promote the development of national computing power to form a "one game of chess" pattern.
Hot industry discussion frontier
In the industry theme sharing session, Huawei brought together representatives from many leading enterprises and institutions in the industry, including Ascend Computing, Dawning Computing, Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and National Supercomputing Tianjin Center, to conduct exchanges and discussions on cutting-edge hot topics such as open source ecological co-construction, supercomputing Internet innovation, computing power and token (Token) empowered scientific research, computing power collaborative ecology, cross-domain heterogeneous computing power integration, AI computing power infrastructure value reconstruction, and token economy implementation.
Among the two roundtable forums, the first one took the urban computing power network as the core theme and focused on in-depth discussions on key issues such as the top-level planning and implementation of the urban computing power network, cross-hub computing power collaboration, localized hardware ecological construction, scenario computing power consumption, market-oriented operation innovation, regional computing power coordination and optimization, etc., and gathered consensus on the standardization, scale, and market-oriented construction of the city-level computing power network.
The second session focused on the vertical track of AI agents and word-element economy, and discussed the four major dimensions of AI agent computing power adaptation, computing power word-economy innovation, operator computing power ecological integration, and industry compliance supervision, helping to build a new ecosystem for the computing power industry.
In view of the fact that the computing power network, as a new infrastructure with outstanding market-oriented attributes, has the distinctive characteristics of large investment scale, long construction period, and rapid technology iteration, the computing power network special committee jointly launched and released the "Financial Empowerment Computing Power Network Industry Innovation and Development Joint Initiative" in conjunction with 17 financial institutions and industrial funds to promote the high-quality, innovative, and green development of the national integrated computing power network.
An award ceremony is held. Photo provided by the organizer
During the conference, the 2026 China Information Association Data Element Application Innovation Competition announced the awards; computing power drives the high-quality development of technology-enabled culture, AI industry ecology sub-forums, and a series of sub-forums focusing on computing infrastructure for the physical AI era, infrastructure and computing power, word ecology, liquid cooling industry, high-quality development of computing and computing collaboration, and the integration of diverse and heterogeneous computing power.
The 4th AI Computing Power Industry Expo was held at the same time, bringing together more than 150 leading upstream and downstream computing power companies to participate in the exhibition.
It is reported that the country’s “six networks” include water networks, new power grids, computing power networks, new generation communication networks, urban underground pipe networks, and logistics networks.
The 2026 Computing Network Development Conference is co-sponsored by the China Information Association and Pengcheng Laboratory, and is co-organized by the Computing Network Professional Committee of the China Information Association, the World Computing Network Alliance, the Zhongguancun Audiovisual Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, and China Communications Consulting and Design Institute Co., Ltd. (over)
