Chongqing to invest an additional 50 billion yuan in cloud computing

Following the initiation of a cloud computing program in Chongqing's Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing's Jiangjin District began construction of a cloud computing industrial base on April 21 with investments totaling 50 billion yuan.

Guang Haixiang, Party secretary of Jiangjin District, said that given the rapid development of the notebook industry in Chongqing, Jiangjin District will build a cloud computing industrial base that covers a full industrial chain including manufacturing, services and terminals, based on the Godson chips independently developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and with cloud computing servers being its pillar sector.

The industrial base will cover a planned area of 150,000 square kilometers and require a total investment of 50 billion yuan.

The four projects initiated on April 21 are the cloud computing server plants with an annual output of 100,000 units, the Godson cloud computing research institute, the chip manufacturing and packaging project with an annual chip output of 200 million, and the Renneng software park.

The DB150-200 plastic optical fiber project developed by Beijing-based Bright East Water Arts will begin production in June 2011. Jiangjin District has also signed cooperation agreements with the Institute of Computing Technology and the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry under the CAS, as well as Sino Softech.

Hu Weiwu, chief designer of the Godson chips and head of the Institute of Computing Technology under the CAS, said that the Godson cloud computing industrial park to be built in the cloud computing industrial base will develop and manufacture Godson CPU chips and provide downstream enterprises with Godson CPU solutions. The Godson technology will play particular roles in the security application sector, offering core components to the research and development of information security equipment and independently-developed manufacturing equipment as well as providing new technological platforms and controllable systems for servers and cloud terminals.

Over recent years, Chongqing has introduced notebook brands such as HP, Acer and ASUS as well as notebook OEM enterprises such as Foxconn, Inventec, Quanta and Pegatron, gradually forming a complete manufacturing chain involving brand, OEM and component manufacturing enterprises. Chongqing's Liangjiang New Area initiated a cloud computing program in early April 2011 with investments totaling 40 billion yuan.

By People's Daily Online

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