According to the data released at the 2025 China Computing Power Conference, Hebei Province has ranked first in the country's comprehensive computing power index for two consecutive years. In the ranking of urban computing power sub index, Langfang City and Zhangjiakou City continue to maintain the first and second place in the country. From Langfang to Zhangjiakou, from central and southern Hebei to the Beijing Tianjin region, as an important node in the layout of the national computing power industry, Hebei Province is building a leading computing power industry ecosystem with policies as the guide, infrastructure as the support, integrated development as the goal, and regional coordination as the path. A "computing power corridor" is accelerating its rise. The computing power layout continues to expand on the winter dam, with strong winds howling. In the wilderness of Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, rows of containerized data centers are scorching in the wind. This is the core area of the national "East Calculation West Calculation" project, the Beijing Tianjin Hebei computing hub, with hundreds of billions of calculations per second, transforming "wind" and "light" into surging computing power to drive the development of the digital economy. Liu Shaoyu, General Manager of Zhangjiakou Power Supply Company of State Grid Jibei Electric Power Co., Ltd., introduced that as a national level renewable energy demonstration zone, Zhangjiakou has abundant wind and solar energy resources, which are suitable for large-scale development. This year, the installed capacity of renewable energy has exceeded 43 million kilowatts. In recent years, the green electricity and green computing power in Zhangjiakou have been advancing simultaneously - in the first half of this year, the proportion of Zhangjiakou computing power enterprises using green electricity exceeded 30%. "We seized major strategic opportunities such as' counting from the east to the west ', gave full play to the advantages of adjacency to Beijing and Tianjin, cold climate, rich green resources, and used green electricity to support computing power, attracting a number of leading enterprises such as Alibaba Cloud and ByteDance to land. ”Zhang Huihua, Deputy Director of Zhangjiakou Data and Government Services Bureau, said. From infinite "scenery" to infinite "computing power", green electricity injects strong momentum into the development of Hebei's "computing power corridor". As the geographical center of central southern Hebei, Shijiazhuang leads the province in industries such as equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, and electronic information. The past relied on experience, now on data "is the practical need for the transformation and upgrading of industries worth billions. As an old industrial base, Xingtai City has 44 county-level characteristic industrial clusters, providing huge application prospects for the integration of computing power and the real economy. In February 2024, Xingtai Taihang Intelligent Computing Center "lit up" 2000P computing power, effectively filling the gap in computing power supply in the central and southern regions of Hebei. Previously, enterprises in central and southern Hebei had to use computing power, either 'going north' or 'going out of the province', resulting in high costs and long delays. ”A staff member from the Development and Reform Commission of Xingtai City said, "Xingtai has the geographical advantage of 'east out, west connected, south connected, and north connected', and a solid industrial foundation provides support for the development of the computing power industry. From market driven to strategic leadership, from undertaking spillover to endogenous demand, a 'computing power corridor' from north to south, gathering information computing power, network transportation power, and data storage power, is accelerating its rise in Hebei, and building a solid computing power base for the high-quality development of the digital economy in Hebei and even the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region. The steady improvement of industrial quality and efficiency has entered the data center of Haoyang Langfang No.1 Data Center Park located in Gu'an County, Langfang City. Thousands of cabinets are neatly arranged, and on the background monitoring screen, data such as computing power load, energy consumption indicators, and network latency are updated in milliseconds. The Langfang Big Data Exchange Center Building A project has been put into operation, with a computing power scale of over 6000P and a cumulative investment of 2.4 billion yuan. To meet market demand, it is planned to invest an additional 3.6 billion yuan in the construction of the third phase project. ”Gao Weiwei, the person in charge of Haoyang Langfang No. 1 Data Center, said that relying on the location advantage adjacent to Beijing and Tianjin, they matched many users in the Internet, finance and other industries in Beijing Tianjin Hebei region with low latency networks. Zhao Peng, Director of the Investment Promotion Center in Gu'an County, introduced that as of the end of 2024, Gu'an County has gathered 43 data centers and upstream and downstream enterprises, forming a complete industrial chain from server manufacturing, operation and maintenance services to data applications, and the related output value of the data industry has exceeded 18 billion yuan. In addition to its own output value, the data center also contributes a lot of operating output value to the big data, Internet services and other application industries running on it. If calculated by energy consumption per unit output value, its comprehensive energy efficiency level is more green than that of traditional industries, but it still needs technological innovation to continue to reduce energy consumption. Gao Weiwei said, "The construction of data centers requires a green technology support system that runs through the entire life cycle. In addition to increasing the proportion of green electricity, our innovative intelligent global temperature control system controls the energy efficiency index (PUE) below 1.25 through fine-grained operation and maintenance driven by large models, and continuously approaches the ideal level of '1'. ”As of the end of 2024, the average energy efficiency index (PUE) of standard cabinets put into operation in Langfang City is 1.28, which is 8.6% lower than the national average PUE of data centers (1.4) and better than the average level of core cities in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region (1.35). The reporter learned from the interview that in terms of comprehensive computing power index, Hebei Province has ranked first in the country for two consecutive years, and the foundation of data infrastructure continues to be strengthened. Langfang and Zhangjiakou cities lead the country in the sub index of computing power, and their computing power advantages continue to consolidate. Despite the abundant supply of computing resources in Hebei, there is objectively a state of idle computing power. Some technology startups have a strong demand for computing power, but are more sensitive to prices. How to optimize the allocation of abundant computing resources? This has become a problem that needs to be solved for the development of the industry. With the deepening implementation of the national "East Data West Computing" project, Hebei Province actively undertakes the pilot task of the national integrated computing power network, and is the first in the country to launch the Hebei Province computing power monitoring and scheduling operation platform, promoting the unified management, intelligent scheduling, and market operation of computing power resources. We have established the working philosophy of 'angel investment in computing power', attracting startups to settle in Hebei through methods such as computing power investment, equity participation, discounts, etc. We have collected 2450P of computing power through this platform, which can meet the computing power needs of hundreds of startups at the same time. ”Wang Yongzhe, Director of the Digital Technology and Infrastructure Construction Department of the Hebei Provincial Bureau of Statistics, said, "Currently, more than 20 start-up teams from universities in Beijing have been connected, and free computing power support has been provided for some projects through 'computing power coupons' to help enterprises grow." Through the link of computing power, technology innovation and application scenarios have now achieved two-way deployment in Hebei. In the production workshop of Langfang Hua'an Automotive Equipment Co., Ltd., worker Zhang Jing stood in front of the intelligent production line. After quickly unlocking the equipment through a facial recognition system, he completed the production of two sets of automotive fuel evaporation control systems in 2 minutes through an automated process. We are equipped with 20 networked and digitized automatic production lines, with an annual production capacity of over 8 million sets of automotive fuel evaporation control systems, providing supporting services for more than 30 domestic and foreign vehicle manufacturers. ”Lin Yongqiang, Manager of the Production Planning Department of Langfang Hua'an Automotive Equipment Co., Ltd., introduced that the company's annual sales have exceeded 3 billion yuan. In Tangshan City, the steel industry dares to try new things, with 80% of enterprises deeply utilizing computing power services for development, forming a computing power application system of "basic computing power support+industry vertical application+industry ecological cultivation". Entering the dispatch and command center of Qian'an Iron and Steel Company of Shougang Corporation, the staff can digitally control over more than 60 production processes in the factory area through the main control screen. Zhang Lei, Deputy Director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Department of Shougang Qiangang Company's Manufacturing Department, said, "In the past, the allocation and scheduling of molten iron required manual participation, and the introduction of artificial intelligence models achieved full automation. This alone saved costs of 70 million yuan and reduced carbon dioxide emissions by 40200 tons." Currently, Tangshan is accelerating the promotion of the "digital intelligence empowerment" strategy, with over 15000 servers in the city and a total scale of 200P of built and under construction intelligent computing centers. Stable power supply provides a solid guarantee for urban transformation and development. Yang Zhicai, Director of the Customer Service Center of State Grid Jibei Electric Power Tangshan Power Supply Company, said, "As a major industrial center in the north, Tangshan is already a regional power load center. Faced with the rapid growth of electricity demand in the computing power industry, we have taken multiple measures to ensure that our services' run 'ahead of demand. We not only help enterprises implement energy-saving technologies and design energy efficiency plans, but also cooperate in participating in virtual power plants and green power transactions. Currently, Xingtai has achieved significant results in the integration of traditional industries and computing power - all large-scale industrial enterprises in the city have gone cloud based, and six indicators including the digitalization rate of production equipment and the digitalization penetration rate of management are higher than the national average. Among them, new energy companies such as JA Solar have significantly improved production efficiency through AI technology. By applying technologies such as AI visual inspection, intelligent scheduling, and predictive maintenance, the overall efficiency of enterprise intelligent manufacturing has been improved by 63%. ”The person in charge of the comprehensive department of JA Solar Group introduced that the Xingtai base has achieved manufacturing collaboration through an integrated data center and F5G all-optical network, resulting in a 52% increase in equipment production efficiency. ”The head of the Data and Government Services Bureau of Hebei Province introduced that Hebei will continue to optimize its computing power layout, build an integrated computing power network throughout the province, provide efficient, green, and inclusive computing services for thousands of industries, further promote the high-quality construction, large-scale application, and prosperous operation ecology of data infrastructure, and effectively support and guarantee the market-oriented allocation reform of data elements. (New Society)