Over the past decade, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has accelerated the construction of its computing infrastructure, which now accounts for over one-third of the national market share and is injecting strong impetus into the high-quality development of the region. 

In recent years, Beijing has rapidly advanced the development of its computing power infrastructure, forming a supply scale of 12,000 petahashes (1 petahash is roughly equivalent to a computing speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second).

As of November 2023, Beijing had seen the debut of 15 general large-scale model products after obtaining approval from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These products represent 80% of the national market share.

Moreover, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has established a coordinated development pattern with Beijing as the core, Tianjin as the support, and Hebei as the receiver. This has provided strong support for the development of data center industry clusters in the three areas, according to a recent conference jointly hosted by the region's telecommunications authorities. 

To meet Beijing's real-time computing power demand, Hebei and Tianjin have capitalized on their abundant green energy resources, continuously advancing the deployment of high-level computing capabilities.

By the end of 2023, a total of 27 data centers in Zhangjiakou in northern Hebei province had been put into operation, boasting a computing power scale of 7,600 petahashes. 

Additionally, the Tianjin Municipal Artificial Intelligence Computing Center plans to further expand its computing power scale. Currently, the center's computing power utilization rate exceeds 90%, with 88% used for business cooperation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

The three regions have also endeavored to accelerate the construction of computing infrastructure while pursuing low-carbon and green development.

For example, China Telecom's Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Big Data Intelligent Computing Center in Tianjin's Wuqing district is building a liquid-cooled computing power pool to further reduce energy consumption.

The information and communication sectors across Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province will further advance the integrated development of the region, and establish a unified computing power resource framework to foster the emergence of new productive forces, according to speakers at the conference.

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