On May 18, the launch ceremony for the Kingsoft Cloud high-performance intelligent computing cluster and the initiation of Phase II of the China Telecom Qingyang Intelligent Computing Industrial Park was held in the Qingyang East-West Computing Resource Transfer Industrial Park.
Tang Ke, Director and Deputy Party Secretary of the China Telecom Group, announced the commencement of construction for Phase II of the China Telecom Qingyang Intelligent Computing Industrial Park. Zou Tao, CEO of Kingsoft Group and Chairman & CEO of Kingsoft Cloud, outlined Kingsoft Cloud's future development plans in Qingyang. Zhou Jijun, Municipal Party Secretary, delivered a speech. Yang Lingcai, Party Secretary and General Manager of China Telecom Gansu Company, detailed China Telecom's investment activities in Qingyang. Hu Zhiyong, Deputy Party Secretary and Acting Mayor, presided over the ceremony. Senior Vice President Liu Tao and Vice Presidents Song Wei and Yu Jun of Kingsoft Cloud, along with municipal leaders Liu Changfa and Li Xiaojun, were in attendance.
During the ceremony, Tang Ke, Zou Tao, and Zhou Jijun jointly activated the Kingsoft Cloud high-performance intelligent computing cluster.
Zou Tao stated that since Kingsoft Cloud established its presence in Qingyang, the municipal party committee and government have provided comprehensive and meticulous guidance and support, offering the most solid foundation for the company's deep-rooted and sustained development in the region. He emphasized that Kingsoft Cloud has consistently invested substantial resources and focused on tangible implementation, avoiding gimmicks and conceptual hype, making it one of the most solidly established and stably operating core enterprises in Qingyang. Qingyang has become a core strategic hub for Kingsoft Cloud's expansion in Northwest China and its deep cultivation of the AI computing industry. The company plans to empower the local economy by deeply implementing mature digital solutions in cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence within Qingyang. This will precisely enhance government efficiency, reduce burdens on grassroots levels, facilitate enterprise transformation, and drive industrial upgrades, ensuring that technology is visible, usable, and effective. The goal is to genuinely apply digital technology to serve urban development and benefit people's livelihoods, supporting Qingyang's high-quality digital economy development and its ambition to build a top-tier "China Computing Valley."
On behalf of the municipal party committee and government, Zhou Jijun congratulated Kingsoft Cloud on the successful launch of its computing cluster and the commencement of Phase II of the China Telecom Qingyang Intelligent Computing Industrial Park. He expressed gratitude to China Telecom, Kingsoft Cloud, and other entrepreneurs for their long-term support of Qingyang's development. He noted that China Telecom Group has actively integrated into and served Qingyang, continuously strengthening the computing infrastructure foundation, and has been a "main force" in the construction of the Qingyang data center cluster under the national "East-West Computing Resource Transfer" project. Kingsoft Cloud Group has consistently regarded Qingyang as a core strategic base for its national computing layout, remaining committed to the city. As a model city in the national "East-West Computing Resource Transfer" project, Qingyang's computing scale is expected to exceed 200,000 P by the end of this year, establishing a green computing hub on the Northwest Loess Plateau. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," both sides have collaborated closely to jointly build the "China Computing Valley" and a "Green Computing Benchmark." Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan," under the leadership of leading enterprises like China Telecom and Kingsoft Cloud, efforts will focus on developing new quality productive forces, advancing new industrialization, and promoting high-level opening-up. Key areas such as computing power, data, applications, and industry will be prioritized to accelerate the construction of a modern digital economy industrial system, expand computing scale, optimize the computing ecosystem, and strengthen computing power exports. The aim is to continuously build a "national strategic asset" and an "AI New City," propelling the "China Computing Valley" towards becoming a "World Computing Valley."
Yang Lingcai stated that China Telecom Gansu Company will continue to uphold an open and cooperative philosophy, collaborating with partners across the industrial chain to build a comprehensive ecosystem encompassing "computing power supply—data circulation—application innovation—industrial empowerment." This will make "Qingyang Computing Power" a robust support and solid foundation for the national computing network. Focusing on cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, biomedicine, and intelligent connected vehicles, the company will partner with leading enterprises to create benchmark application scenarios for vertical industries, jointly build symbiotic industrial clusters, and strive to transition from an infrastructure provider to a joint innovator. Investment will be continuously increased, building upon existing domestic achievements to deploy more advanced domestic ten-thousand-card computing clusters, fully committed to creating a secure, reliable, and independently controllable domestic computing power highland.
It is reported that this batch of high-performance intelligent computing clusters represents a pioneering benchmark-level computing cluster in China. It will comprehensively support the demands of high-end scenarios such as general large models, intelligent driving, video generation, and embodied intelligence, forming a virtuous cycle of "expanding computing power, improving scenario quality, and enhancing industrial efficiency." Phase II of the China Telecom Qingyang Intelligent Computing Industrial Park involves the construction of three data center buildings and one 110kV substation. Upon completion, it will synergize with Phase I to create a scale effect, comprehensively supporting the national "East-West Computing Resource Transfer" project, the needs of Gansu's government affairs, big data industrial enterprises, and key industry big data innovation applications. It is set to become one of the most influential large-scale green data centers in the province.
That afternoon, Zhou Jijun and Hu Zhiyong held discussions with Zou Tao to further deepen cooperation between the local government and enterprises.
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