digital wave is vast. Since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the provincial party committee and government, we have fully implemented the decisions and deployments of the 12th Provincial Party Congress on building a national digital economy and development highland, accelerated the deep integration and empowerment of the new generation of information technology and manufacturing, and continuously strengthened, improved and expanded the provincial digital economy. The national digital economy development highland that Hubei is fully committed to building is rising rapidly.
In 2021, the added value of our province's digital economy reached 2.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20%, ranking eighth in the country and first in the central region; the digital economy accounted for 42% of GDP, driving GDP growth by 7.9 percentage points, and the contribution rate of was 61.25%.
Our province's digital industry will continue to improve both quantity and quality this year. Taking the software industry as an example, as of the end of August, the province's software business revenue was 152.374 billion yuan, an increase of 11.0% over the same period in 2021. The province's software business revenue accounts for about 52% of the sum of the six central provinces, ranking first in the central region, rising from 12th in the country to 10th.
In 2022, 12 projects were selected as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's new information consumption demonstration project, the number was the second in the country for three consecutive years; 13 projects were selected as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's big data industry development pilot demonstration project, the number was the third in the country and the first in the central region.
actively supports Wuhan’s approval to create two “pilot zones”. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology officially replied to support Wuhan in creating a national blockchain development pilot zone (only Wuhan, , Suzhou , Zhengzhou and Kunming in the country were approved), and supported Wuhan in creating a national artificial intelligence innovative application pilot zone (this time Wuhan, Nanjing and Changsha were approved).
Various national pilot work is in full swing. Since the beginning of this year, our province has further emancipated its mind, taken the initiative, and actively strived for it. It has successively become a national pilot province for data security management in the industrial field, a national pilot area for DCMM (data management capability maturity assessment) standards, and a pilot province for industrial Internet security classification and classification. Donghu Hi-tech Zone was selected as a national new industrialization industry demonstration base industrial Internet platform empowering digital transformation improvement pilot.
Major projects are like mushrooms after a rain. The construction of Optics Valley Digital Economy Industrial Base and Dameng China Database Industrial Base have started. Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Computing Center completed the first phase construction and the second phase expansion, and the computing power was increased to 200P; Wuhan Supercomputing Center html started construction in April, with the first phase computing power scale of 50P and put into operation within the year. Two global lighthouse factories have been built in the province.
fusion application continues to deepen. This year, our province organized the Hubei Regional Competition of the Bloom Cup 5G Application Collection Competition, and 839 projects in the province were registered for the competition, and the number of participating projects was 4 times that of last year. There are 108 fully connected 5G factories under construction in the province, and 46,000 industrial enterprises are online at the cloud, with a coverage rate of more than 45%; the CNC rate of key processes of enterprises reaches 58.1%, 2.4 percentage points higher than the national average.
In-depth expansion of industrial Internet applications. The province has built 37 key industrial Internet platforms, and Hubei Gechuang Dongzhi has been rated as a national "double-cross" industrial Internet platform, achieving a zero breakthrough. As of the end of September, the number of registered top node identifications in the national industrial Internet in Wuhan reached 7.928 billion, an increase of more than 2 billion over the same period last year. The number of secondary nodes reached 31 and 4,000 enterprises were connected. The
5G 10,000-station project continues to be promoted. As of the end of August, 70,800 5G macro base stations have been built in the province, ranking eighth in the country, with a cumulative investment of more than 20 billion yuan. All cities and prefectures have basically achieved high-quality outdoor coverage in central urban areas, continuous coverage of key areas in new urban areas, and full coverage of townships and above areas.
Big Data Center accelerates layout. There are 112 data centers in use, 35 data centers under construction, 16 edge data centers, and 113,000 racks in use, ranking first in the middle.
Blockchain infrastructure breakthrough development.Following the country's first "Spark • Chain Network" super node was launched in Han in November last year, , the first "Spark • Chain Network" backbone node ( Hanyang ) in central China was launched in January this year, and the construction of backbone nodes such as Shiyan City and Three Gorges Group has accelerated.
htmlIn August, the General Office of the Provincial Government issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Hubei Digital Economy Strong Province (2022-2024)", proposing the eight-character strategy of "improving breakthroughs and doubling leaps", implementing six major actions, including multiplication of core industries, acceleration of integrated applications, data value, improvement of data governance capabilities, strengthening the network, and building a digital ecological vitality, and striving to build a strong province in the digital economy.
Improve the provincial digital economy joint meeting system and coordinate the implementation of various tasks. Establish a monthly scheduling mechanism for the software industry and 5G macro base stations, and prepare and release provincial digital economy trends on a quarterly basis. Deeply plan major projects in the digital economy and new infrastructure fields.
implemented the "13 Digital Economy Regulations" reward and subsidy policy, and provided financial support of 86.8 million yuan to 154 enterprises in the province that meet the 5G base station construction, and 2 industrialization integration standards, and various pilot demonstrations. This year's reward and subsidy funds are being implemented and are expected to exceed the total amount last year.
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