China News Service, Ulanqab, November 14 (Reporter Zhang Linhu) On the 14th, the 2026 On-chain Ulanqab Conference with the theme of "Efficiency, Green, and Security" was held in Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Through project promotion, industrial research, round-table dialogue and other forms, the conference focused on demonstrating the development results of local computing power, new energy, new materials and other industries, and promoting the connection of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain.
"The Ulanqab chain is not just an industrial chain, but also a chain of trust and cooperation." At the meeting, Ulanqab Mayor Liu Haiquan promoted the city with the "three best choices".
The three options Liu Haiquan mentioned point to policy opportunities, location and transportation, and resource endowments.
In terms of policy opportunities, Ulanqab is one of the eight computing power hubs and the top ten data center clusters of the country's "East-to-West Computing". It is also the only hub city in the country that is not a provincial capital city for China-Europe trains. It has ushered in a golden opportunity period for the overlay of national strategies.
In terms of location and transportation, you can take the high-speed train from Ulanqab to Beijing in 90 minutes. It is an important transportation hub connecting Northeast, North and Northwest China, and is also a node of the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network. There is an airport, 2 high-speed trains, 6 railways, 7 expressways, and 8 national highways crisscrossing Ulanqab.
In terms of resource endowment, Ulanqab is rich in wind and solar resources. Its technological exploitability, wind power equivalent annual utilization hours, and photovoltaic equivalent annual utilization hours are among the best in the country. It has obvious advantages in electricity prices. In terms of mineral resources, molybdenum ore reserves rank first in the country, graphite flake quality ranks first in the country, tourmaline and high-quality basalt reserves rank first in Inner Mongolia, and proven and preserved fluorite resource reserves rank first in Inner Mongolia.
Computing power is Ulanqab’s primary industry. At present, the local computing power operation scale has exceeded 200,000P and reached 220,000P, with intelligent computing accounting for more than 90%; 109 computing power center projects have been signed, with a total investment of more than 700 billion yuan, and a cumulative investment of 55 billion yuan has been completed; the scale of contracted racks exceeds 7 million, 770,000 racks have been built, and 510,000 racks have been put into operation; the contracted IT load exceeds 25GW, and 1.3GW of IT load has been put into operation.
From January to September this year, the computing power industry in Ulanqab City achieved revenue of 6.971 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34%; realized tax revenue of 273 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 81.63%; electricity consumption was 5.521 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 84.1%; and completed investment of 13.91 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 63.5%. It is expected that the computing power operation scale will exceed 260,000P within the year, and the revenue will exceed 9 billion yuan. From "Prairie Cloud Valley" to "Intelligent Computing City" to "Token Capital", Ulanqab City's computing power industry is achieving a three-level leap.
"As a strategic industry, new energy is building a green energy production and application cluster; new materials are a pillar industry, and a new materials industry cluster is being built; agriculture and animal husbandry are a featured industry, with the output value of the entire industry chain of 'Wheat, Potato, Beef and Goat Milk' reaching 29 billion yuan, and the total value of the 'Original Ulanqab' regional public brand exceeding 80 billion yuan; and cultural tourism, as an industry that enriches the people, is promoting the high-quality development of all-season tourism in the region," Liu Haiquan said.
