Sept. 12 — CAICT chief engineer He Baohong told the 2026 China Compute
Conference that national compute development should shift from pure scale
expansion to quality and efficiency, built around differentiated regional
layouts, integrated hardware-software ecosystems, a low‑carbon compute base and
a nationwide institutional framework. He recommended region-specific strategies:
advantaged regions should prioritise upgrading existing capacity and high‑value
use cases; growth regions should develop regional compute hubs to drive
coordinated upgrades of storage, compute and network; resource regions should
host training and cold-data, non‑real‑time workloads while improving outbound
networks and industrial ecosystems. For supply‑chain resilience, he urged new
intelligent compute centres to provision storage and network alongside compute
and to complete full‑chain support for chips, servers, databases and models. On
decarbonisation and system governance, he recommended scaling liquid cooling,
energy‑efficiency retrofits and compute‑power coordination to boost renewable
consumption, and improving pricing, trading, value‑accounting and compliance
regimes.
