Data center is an important infrastructure for the development of digital economy and a key supporting force for building a digital China and a network power. In recent days, National Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly issued a document, officially launched the project of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions, and successfully completed the overall layout design of the national integrated big data center system. It can be predicted that the project of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions will actively improve the efficiency of Digital China construction.

At present, there is a large imbalance in the layout of data centers in the east and west of China, and the mismatch contradiction with the layout of energy resources and productivity is more prominent. The eastern region, where resources such as land and energy are increasingly scarce, has concentrated the vast majority of data centers in the country, so it is difficult to continue to develop data centers on a large scale. However, the data centers in the western region and economically underdeveloped regions, which are relatively rich in resources such as energy and land, account for a relatively low proportion in the country, and have the potential to develop data centers and undertake the computing needs of the eastern region. This unbalanced data center layout is not only difficult to meet the requirements of achieving the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality, which is not conducive to regional coordinated development, but also causes great waste of energy and resources, which urgently needs the guidance of the national macro-level. Therefore, the implementation of the project of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions, promoting the orderly transfer of computing resources to the west and building a national hub node of the national integrated computing network can give full play to the regional comparative advantages and the advantages of China's system and mechanism, optimize the allocation of resources, enhance the overall computing efficiency of the country, push forward the green development, expand effective investment and promote regional coordinated development, release the multiplier effect of computing resources and the multiplier effect of data elements.

From a macro perspective, the project of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions is another major cross regional resource allocation project in China. It is a major strategic project of the century to comprehensively shoulder the backbone of Digital China in the digital era. The full launch of the project marks that the construction of Digital China and network power has entered the rapid development stage, and it also means that China has taken a new step in regional coordinated development. The implementation of the project will give better play to the strategic, basic and leading role of new digital infrastructure such as data center and cloud computing, and open up "conception vessel" and "governor vessel"of data information for China's economic and social development. It will not only help to promote the reform of market-oriented allocation of data elements, realize the optimal allocation of data and computing resources nationwide and even globally and build the main backbone of the "digital silk road", but also help to seize the opportunities of digital development, comprehensively optimize the layout of China's digital economic productivity, and fully activate the development potential of the digital economy, so as to provide unremitting power and strong support for building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality economic development, building new national competitive advantages and seizing the commanding height of global strategic competition.

It should be emphasized that the project of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions involves multiple regions, provinces, fields and objectives. It has a large scale, complex system and arduous tasks. It is a major project related to the realization of major strategic objectives of Chinese modernization such as regional coordination, common prosperity and the construction of a new development pattern in the new era. We must focus on the goal of building a digital China and a network power, adhere to the system concept, strengthen forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout and overall promotion, give full play to the institutional advantages of the combination of China's effective market and promising government, and solidly promote the high-quality and high-standard construction of the project of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions. We will strengthen the integrated and coordinated layout of energy, communication networks, data centers and other infrastructure, do well in the overall construction and interconnection of stock and incremental network infrastructure, and create the main framework and artery for the allocation of national data and computing resources, accelerate the formation of a new pattern of national integrated big data center system with "complete system, safety and reliability, intensiveness and efficiency, green and intelligence, smooth circulation and strong governance", and cultivate and develop a strong development ecology of digital economy.

In particular, it should be noted that in the process of promoting the construction of channeling more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions, we must follow the economic, natural and social laws, act according to the laws, enhance overall planning and policy guidance, steadily promote the appropriate agglomeration and intensive development of national data centers, form echelon layout and rational division of labor, reasonably divide physical boundaries and strengthen hard constraints such as green energy conservation and shelf availability in a bid to avoid the development in blind.