deltrittennovels Chapter 239 Digital China
Chapter 239 Digital China
After six months of operation of eight smart city pilot projects, the Development Research Center of the State Council released a special report.
The report is titled "Strategic Choices for New Digital Infrastructure".
The 47-page document mentions many companies and technologies, but its core conclusion is only one sentence: private enterprises, represented by 402 Technology, have become the core force in the construction of Digital China.
In the first week after the report was released, Zuo Cheng was invited to attend a symposium held by the State Council.
The meeting was held in a small conference room at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. It was a small event with a round table seating a dozen or so people. Attendees included leaders from seven ministries: the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the National Health Commission, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Energy Administration, along with three academic advisors in the field of digital economy. Zuo Cheng was the only business representative present.
The theme of the conference was the role of private enterprises in the construction of digital infrastructure during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Zuo Cheng spoke for fifteen minutes at the meeting. He didn't talk about the technology of 402, but about the methodology.
"Digital infrastructure isn't something the government builds alone or that enterprises enjoy exclusively; rather, the state provides the platform, enterprises perform, and the people benefit," he said. "The government sets the standards and direction, enterprises provide the technology and operational capabilities, and ultimately, every ordinary person who uses this infrastructure benefits. 402's role in this process isn't that of a supplier, but rather a conduit. Data and computing power flow through this conduit to every road, every hospital, every farmland, and every factory."
A deputy prime minister spoke with him privately for twenty minutes after the meeting.
We weren't talking about technology, we were talking about vision.
What does your vision of a digital China look like?
Zuo Cheng thought for a moment and then described three scenarios.
"First, in any city, from the moment a person leaves home to the moment they reach their destination, they don't need to wait at traffic lights, find a parking space, or ask for directions. The transportation system arranges everything for them."
"Secondly, if an elderly person suddenly collapses at their home in the countryside, an ambulance will arrive within eight minutes, all the traffic lights will be green, and by the time they arrive at the hospital, the doctors will have already reviewed their brain signal data, and the operating room will be ready."
"Third, a farmer doesn't need to go to the fields or watch the weather; his phone will tell him which plot needs watering, which needs fertilizing, and when to harvest. All he needs to do is press the confirm button."
The Vice Premier listened without commenting, but nodded. The next day, Zuo Cheng's speech was compiled into an internal briefing and circulated within the State Council system.
The data from the six arteries were comprehensively reviewed after that symposium.
Smart Cities: All eight cities met the operational data standards, and the average efficiency of the cities improved by more than 40%.
Smart transportation: The traffic brains of twelve cities are connected, dispatching more than 20 million vehicles daily, and reducing the accident rate by 30%.
Smart Healthcare: Over 500 top-tier hospitals have connected to Interstellar Neural Network, with over 30,000 surgeries performed to date. The 8-minute emergency assessment system is operational in the emergency departments of over 200 hospitals.
Smart manufacturing: Forty core manufacturing enterprises have connected to the quantum optimization engine, resulting in an average yield improvement of more than twelve percentage points.
Smart agriculture: 30 million mu covering seven provinces, and a 1 billion mu promotion plan incorporated into the high-standard farmland construction standards.
Smart Energy: Six space-based photovoltaic receiving stations generate electricity, with the cost per kilowatt-hour lower than that of coal-fired power for the first time.
Six lines converge into one number: 402's digital infrastructure serves more than 400 million people every day.
This figure was calculated at Yu Ying's suggestion. She cross-referenced and deduplicated the user coverage data of the six arteries, and the result was that more than 400 million individual users interact with the 402 infrastructure at least once a day. This includes commuters who use smart transportation every day, patients who use smart healthcare services, farmers who use smart agriculture systems, workers who use smart manufacturing optimization platforms, and residents who use smart energy microgrids.
Four hundred million people. When the people in the conference room heard this number, no one spoke.
Yu Ying didn't stop at the surface of the numbers. She did a deeper analysis.
She cross-referenced the data from the six arteries and discovered a pattern. More than 37 percent of the data flowing through the 402 digital infrastructure every day is cross-industry.
Traffic data is optimizing emergency medical routes. The real-time traffic model accumulated by the Quantum Traffic Brain, when called upon by the emergency system, has further reduced ambulance arrival times by 8%.
Remote sensing data from agriculture is being used to train AI image recognition models. High-resolution images of farmland taken by the Tianqiong satellite provide a massive amount of labeled samples for AI visual models, improving the accuracy of defect detection in the manufacturing field by three percentage points.
Energy load data is used to adjust manufacturing schedules. The real-time power generation curve of space photovoltaics is integrated into the factory's production scheduling system, allowing energy-intensive processes to be concentrated during periods of abundant power, reducing electricity costs and alleviating peak-valley pressure on the power grid.
Yu Ying gave this cross-industry data chemistry a name: the digital symbiosis effect.
"This wasn't something we designed," she told Zuo Cheng. "It arose naturally from the six arteries. Each artery is valuable on its own, but once they start feeding each other data, the effect is greater than the simple sum of all the arteries."
Zuo Cheng wrote a line in his notebook: Digital China is not the Digital China of 402, but the Digital China of everyone who is connected to the 402 ecosystem.
Three days after the content of the symposium was circulated within the State Council system in the form of an internal briefing, overseas media reacted before domestic media.
Bloomberg published an editorial titled: "When a company becomes the infrastructure of a nation."
Wall Street analysts have revised 402's valuation from $22 billion to $35 billion, an increase of nearly 60%.
Zuo Cheng didn't read that news article. He was reading another email.
From: World Bank.
Theme: Digital Infrastructure Cooperation Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The email body was short, but its core message was just one sentence: The World Bank was willing to provide $10 billion in financing guarantees and invited 402 to participate as a technology partner in the construction of digital infrastructure in five African countries.
Zuo Cheng read the email but didn't reply. He opened the system panel and looked at the civilization perception interface.
All the beams of light on the map of China form a network. Data flows between each beam, and this data is not generated by the system, but by the 400 million people in the real world every day. Traffic data, medical data, agricultural data, energy data, manufacturing data, all are intertwined.
The progress bar for the ninth branch increased slightly, from three percent to seven percent.
7. This number is small, but its growth pattern is different from before. Previously, it was driven by external forces; this time, the growth comes from within the system. The data chemistry between the eight branches has accumulated to a certain extent and is beginning to permeate towards the ninth branch.
Zuo Cheng closed the panel, took out a blank document, and wrote on the first line: Global Layout.