Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, east China - May 17, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Event marking World Telecommunication and Information Society Day in progress
2. Screen reading (Chinese) "official launch of computing power Internet pilot network"
3. Event in progress, attendees

Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, east China - May 16, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Various of screen showing information on demonstration platform of computing power Internet

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5. Various of devices

Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, east China - May 17, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wang Zhiqin, deputy head, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) (ending with shots 7-10):
"Just like measuring the electricity usage with kilowatt-hours, users can purchase and use computing power resources flexibly by 'card hours' from the platform according to their demand. This will give everyone easy access to computing power services whenever and wherever they have a need."

Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, east China - May 16, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of screen showing information on demonstration platform of computing power Internet
8. Webpage showing computing power sources

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9. Sign on wall reading (Chinese) "computing power server room"
10. Various of devices

Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, east China - May 17, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
11. Various of launch ceremony of "Millisecond Intercity Computing" campaign, guests on stage

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12. Various of information on screen, employees working

Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, east China - May 17, 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
13. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Haiyi, director, Institute of Technology and Standard, CAICT (ending with shot 14):
"The overall carrying capacity of China's computing power network is relatively good. The comprehensive network carrying capacity of Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province rank among the top ten in the country. In terms of latency, each hub has basically formed a 5-millisecond latency circle covering the surrounding provincial level regions, as well as a 20-millisecond latency circle covering most provincial level regions across the country."

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14. Various of devices

China officially initiated the construction of a pilot network for computing power Internet on Saturday at an event marking the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day in Nanchang City, east China's Jiangxi Province.

In collaboration with China's major telecom operators, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) has started the project, which is expected to accelerate the establishment of a unified national computing power network.

The computing power Internet is a new type of facility that has been formed by upgrading and transforming the existing Internet. It can achieve the interconnection and intercommunication of computing power resources just like the Internet connects information and devices, allowing people to use computing power more conveniently and flexibly.

Experts said that in order to gather the scattered computing power resources, it is necessary to identify each computing power resource on the network, such as by issuing an ID card. This way, the most suitable computing power resources and transmission paths can be quickly found according to the computing power identification.

"Just like measuring the electricity usage with kilowatt-hours, users can purchase and use computing power resources flexibly by 'card hours' from the platform according to their demand. This will give everyone easy access to computing power services whenever and wherever they have a need," said Wang Zhiqin, deputy head of CAICT.

So far, the identification of 499 computing power resource pools from 131 enterprises has been completed, gathering 111.3 EFLOPS of intelligent computing power, according to Wang.

EFLOPS is a measurement unit used to determine a computer's speed. A 1 EFLOPS computing system can complete 1 quintillion floating-point operations per second.

The CAICT, in collaboration with telecom operators, equipment manufacturers, Internet companies and other industrial partners, also launched at the event the "Millisecond Intercity Computing" campaign, which will promote the construction of high-speed, large-capacity, low-latency and wide-coverage intercity network infrastructure to shorten the access time of computing power centers and computing power resources to within one millisecond, and the application service time of computing power to the 10-millisecond level.

"The overall carrying capacity of China's computing power network is relatively good. The comprehensive network carrying capacity of Guangdong Province, Jiangsu Province and Shandong Province rank among the top ten in the country. In terms of latency, each hub has basically formed a 5-millisecond latency circle covering the surrounding provincial level regions, as well as a 20-millisecond latency circle covering most provincial level regions across the country," said Zhang Haiyi, director of the Institute of Technology and Standard at CAICT.

Zhang said the campaign will empower the innovative applications of computing power in new industrialization, such as AI-enhanced quality inspection and industrial simulation design. Efforts will also be made to explore the use of computing power for AI video monitoring, AI-assisted teaching, and other application scenarios in the finance, transportation, education, and healthcare sectors.