Big Data Panic

Big data is no longer a topic for scientists, and many local governments in China have taken it as an important means of economic transformation, and have even used the large data industry as a strategic pillar industry to build data centers as urban development targets.

According to the "International financial news" incomplete statistics, Hebei Qinhuangdao, Guizhou's new district, Chongqing, the Two rivers, Lanzhou new area, Hangzhou, Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, and so on, all proposed to gather resources, building large data industry clusters, including the new zone, Chongqing Liang Jiang New zone, Lanzhou new zone, but also the large data industry as the pillar industry of the city , in the new town planning specifically to focus on this. The agglomeration of resources is a key point that is emphasized by almost all cities that develop large data industries.

"Everywhere said I want to gather resources, but China has so much resources to let local government to gather?" "When reporters expressed concern about the ambitious" gathering of resources "by local governments, Chinese Academy of Engineering Hequan smiled and nodded to reporters," Your question has come to the point. " The National nine new area contracted Green Alliance, the new area are emphasizing cooperation, but I think we should pay attention to how to coordinate mutual competition. How to form complementary, mutual support, avoid duplication of construction, vicious competition. ”

But at the same time, you should also note that the value of data resources is not dead, invariably, when all parties are gathered in a mutually beneficial way to enhance the value of the data from different angles, the same data may be realized many times, so this is where we can promote each other when we compete with each other. Hequan reminded reporters.

Overtaking in the corners: the helpless choice in the West

Reporters and local government officials, they almost all told reporters that the big data industry is in the shadow of the global financial crisis, China's economic restructuring under the difficult conditions, the last resort to make the choice. Especially for underdeveloped areas, the development of large data industry on the one hand is placed to help less developed areas "overtaking" the high expectations, on the other hand, it is "helpless"

National Ministry of Information Security Coordination Department deputy Director, OUYANGWU, deputy director of Guizhou New District Management committee, told the "International Financial newspaper" reporter, Western region to achieve the curve overtaking, focus on industry choice, facing than the eastern part of the original development of greater challenges. The west itself is a thin foundation, and the country now requires the west to go directly to ecological civilization, green economic road. "In particular, the new district, in the country to the new area of the official approval document, directly to the eco-civilization demonstration zone as one of its three strategic positioning." Machangqing, director of the new District Management committee, told reporters this is both an opportunity and a great challenge.

As a result, the western cities of the West have to choose in the limited green economy industry. "Then, not sustainable, even polluting enterprises, even if the economic benefits are good, can not do." "Ouyangwu said.

Not only must in the green economy industry choice, even if is the green economy industry, the east many areas also early start, the resource gathers conveniently, but the West also must avoid with the east the positive competition, the choice scope further shrinks.

So the "east, the West do not know how to do" industry, naturally became the first choice in the west. "Anyway, developed cities have no experience, we have just started, the west after the city, can be in the same starting line development." Ouyangwu told reporters, the big data is such "everyone just started, we have no experience" industry.

Naturally, the large data industry is the best choice for many local governments, especially in the western region, to overtake the corners. "The big data industry is in the foreseeable future, the most conditional, and most likely to help push the Gansu region after the first-mover industry." "Li, director of Lanzhou New District Management committee, said," the development of large data industry in Gansu and other western regions to hold the development and ecological two bottom line of the realistic choice. ”

In addition, in particular, the new area, such as the establishment of the newly developed district, Lanzhou, because it is the land, even land development, infrastructure to start from zero, so large data such as the information industry infrastructure requirements of high industry, and just become the advantages of the newly developed area. "Assuming that the developed cities are all in good condition, if you do not have such a large space, to do huge data centers, or data transmission network is not enough, it can not build data center." "When the reporter asked the industry, why the eastern developed cities do not directly build data centers, Huawei Company Communications department responsible to reporters explained."

"Anyway, we are barren hills or farmland, now to build new town, when we build, directly to the Super data center needs of the network, such as super fiber, and the power grid and other infrastructure built, not like the old town, carrying a heavy burden." Chen Yan, chairman of the New Zone Development Investment Co., Ltd, told reporters.

Thinking mode: The market is the boss

The development of large data industry is a great subversion of the thinking mode and administrative mode of government officials. What's the big data? What does the big data industry include? This basic problem is simple and difficult, because it is mainly by the market definition, can even be said by several foreign technology companies, a few people to define, and the market is difficult to form a consensus, while the industry changes with each passing day

The prevailing definition is: large data, or huge amount of data, refers to the magnitude of the data involved, not through the current mainstream software tools, in a reasonable time to achieve capture, management, processing, and collation to help enterprises to make decisions more positive purpose information.

Public data show that in 1980, the famous Futurist Toffler, in its third wave, enthusiastically praised "big data" as "the third wave of the CLS."

"Cloud computing and big data are two sides of a coin, cloud computing is the IT Foundation for big data, and big data is a killer app for cloud computing." "30 years ago, the cost of storing 1TB, which is about 1000GB, is about $1.6 billion trillion, and now it's less than 100 dollars on the cloud," says Zhang, Microsoft's global Senior vice president and Microsoft Asia Pacific Research Group chairman. But stored data, if not mined and analyzed by cloud computing, Just zombie data, not much value. ”

The development and application of large data abroad is mainly dominated by market. The most famous example is the Google search engine, in the face of massive web data, Google in 2006 first proposed the concept of cloud computing, supporting Google's various "Big data" applications, is Google's own research and development of cloud computing server. The idea of collecting and analyzing "big data" comes from McKinsey, a world-renowned management consulting firm.

Therefore, the absolute dominance of the market, leading to the Chinese local government in the development of large data industry, more passive to understand the needs of enterprises, and it is difficult to occupy the leading or leading position, coupled with the rapid changes in the Internet industry, the government even planning is difficult to do accurately. "Don't think about 3 months later." "When asked by a local government science and technology department official about his future plans, the official responded with an internet business executive," the reporter said.

At the same time, government officials were forced to become "experts". "I spend at least 1 hours a day studying, and you can't communicate with business without learning." The pressure on the government staff is very high, almost averaging 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. "The new District Management Committee director Machangqing told reporters.

However, it should be noted that at present, China's domestic large data applications, divided into two types of official-led, market-oriented. Qinhuangdao Economic and technological Development Zone, deputy Director of science and Technology, is from Qinhuangdao (Chinese Academy of Sciences) technology innovation results of the transformation base, Dr. Ding Lin. Ding Lin told reporters that Qinhuangdao economic and technological Development zone is currently the actual landing project, mainly to assume the government or the Chinese Academy of Sciences-led projects, their data mainly from national-level projects, the development of applications are mainly used in aerospace, agriculture and so on, the user is mainly the government.

Strategic positioning: All-Inclusive? Specialized and refined?

The construction of large data base is forming a different situation in the whole country. Qinhuangdao for the representative has many years of experience in the data base, do the main application areas, and the new area, such as the new comer, now mainly in the first link, that is, large data storage

"Large data industry chain is very long, very large, may not have any one side can monopolize the entire industrial chain, all parties can only do some part of it, can do some of these links to do a good job, it has been very nice." "Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone Outreach Department director Wang Jijun told reporters.

Wugansha, dean of the China Research Institute at Intel, briefed reporters large data industry chain can be divided into three types: data collection and storage (data owners), data processing and analysis (data technology provider), the third aspect is the value of data and value-added promotion (with data thinking of the Midas), such as a variety of large data applications.

And Wugansha stressed that the combination of large data and industry to achieve the value of data, "otherwise the data is only data, or even negative assets." For example, the combination of large data and retail can achieve accurate insight into consumers, flexible pricing of goods and efficient management of supply chains, integration with agriculture, finance, and the management of agricultural crops and disaster insurance.

If according to Wugansha to large data industry three categories, to Qinhuangdao as the representative of the data base has many years of experience, do is mainly applied fields, and new area, such as new Comer, is currently mainly in the first link, that is, large data storage.

However, the new district, Chongqing Liang Jiang River New zone is not willing to just do storage, large data resources, only the first step, they are trying to achieve "all-inclusive" and "professional and refined" combination. "The gathering of data resources is the foundation, the application market and the power of industrial agglomeration." There is no data center of a certain size, there is no aggregation of data resources. ”

and Qinhuangdao "Spend 5 years laying the groundwork" compared to the new area is more "urgent": a year to complete the construction of infrastructure, two years to complete the elements of agglomeration. Ouyangwu introduces the construction of the new area of your new District data Center planning: first, the basic environmental construction period (2014-2015), focusing on the improvement of infrastructure construction, speeding up the construction of large data industry incubation park, building infrastructure cloud computing platform, strengthen the construction of urban supporting facilities. The second is the gathering period of the factor resources (2015-2017), focusing on the promotion of data resource agglomeration, the agglomeration of technology elements, the agglomeration of capital elements, the gathering of talent elements and the agglomeration of enterprise elements. Three is the application innovation Breakthrough period (2017-2020), the emphasis promotes the industry chain support ability, the promotion data resource transaction use, promotes the big Data application innovation, the development Big Data service business.

Practical benefits: Easy to stay in the difficult

Although the slogan of high technology, big data and cloud computing is very loud, the question is whether the "sound" of "high Technology" is "wool", or whether it is really worth it, and it can bring economic and social good effects.

"It's hard to make money as a data center." "In the world's major IT giants working in the industry to reporters that the data center must focus on the industrial chain, in order to achieve high value-added." "Including data collection, mining, application, value-added services." ”

"Large data as a large volume, the category of complex data sets, which itself is not a new technology, nor a new product, but we have a phenomenon in this era." It can be said that it is about to break through the existing conventional software can provide the capacity limit. "Qinhuangdao Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee deputy director Sangiuning said."

Reporter specially statistics all over the current progress, found all over the stage with the enterprise groping, enterprises stationed in the results are obvious, but the actual economic and social benefits still need time to reflect.

Qinhuangdao mainly focuses on the transformation of scientific research. Its data industry base since its inception, successively have IBM three-dimensional Internet technology platform, the province letter production investment data industry research and Development Center, Peking University Science and Technology Industrial Park, Ministry of Industry Electronics Five Qinhuangdao branch, the star contacts the Chinese Thing Networking Research Institute, the ZTE Network letter Wisdom City Qinhuangdao North Base, the province branch investment innovates the Enterprise comprehensive service base, Chinese Academy of Sciences Technical Innovation results transformation base and other quality projects landing. The preliminary formation of the Beijing University (Qinhuangdao) science and technology Industry Park as the representative of the innovative park, the Data Industry Research Institute and the Star Networking Research Institute for the Chinese Research and development of the support of the scientific institutions, The innovative service platform represented by the three-dimensional Internet technology application platform and the new situation of four kinds of projects such as the transformation base of innovation achievements, which is represented by Qinhuangdao (Chinese Academy of Sciences) technology innovation result transformation base.

Lanzhou New Area is the largest data industry, one of the biggest investment in the city, has nearly 300 billion, enterprises, projects stationed is also one of the largest. According to its CMC director Li, Lanzhou new area large data-related six industrial park, the cumulative introduction of large data related projects 256, total investment of 295.7 billion yuan. has introduced ZTE, Shenhua Group, 31 heavy industry, such as the world's 500 strong, domestic 500 strong and private 500 enterprises 28. China Railway Construction, dedicated agriculture and other 17 projects have been completed and put into production; green space Wisdom City, four Chinese, Branch Chong Pharmaceutical, Wo Bang pharmaceutical industry and other 116 projects are speeding up the building, around the large data industry agglomeration situation is forming.

As the newest new area of development data center, the main progress of this year is the application of the fourth generation industrial park of Foxconn, as well as the entry plan of the three major telecom operators. Therefore, the new area is now more emphasis on its natural conditions of superiority, as well as the development of large data industry determination. "The new district is a collection of all the strength of Guizhou province to enlarge the data industry, the governor of Guizhou Province, deputy governors have personally participated in discussions with our entrepreneurs, I think the policy can continue at least two successive government." "Just to participate in the cloud on the big data peak in Guizhou," said the head of a business, told reporters this is his more important point.

"The industry generally believes that the temperature is low, geological stability, which is the most basic data center conditions." Huawei communications director told reporters. Google, Amazon chose Alaska to do the data center, is to save electricity. Another industry personage also analyzes to the reporter. and natural cooling, as the new area features, "Our energy consumption rate may be the lowest in the world, we use natural cooling year-round, this is very rare in the world." Wu Hui, vice president of Foxconn Technology Group, introduced his fourth generation industrial park in the new district.

However, less developed areas for industrial agglomeration and pay a high price, after the establishment of data storage center, whether to achieve further industrial chain agglomeration? This makes the beginning of this article "resource agglomeration" problem, in the national, global background, more embodiment of the enterprise and the government's two-way choice. Competition around, of course, is a good thing for enterprises, local governments compete with each other to broaden the choice of enterprises, but also increase the bargaining chips of enterprises and governments. For local governments, the presence of enterprises is also the main manifestation of their achievements.

At the same time, the obvious difference between large data industry and other industries is that local governments develop large numbers of data, while enterprises have many data centers in the country. Compared to the reporter found that unicom, for example, its national layout of the data base of up to 10, therefore, a company to select a number of governments, a government to select a number of enterprises, for less developed areas to create space.

As Hequan said, competition between cities can be transformed into mutual industrial chain coordination. "Everywhere development must be based on the value chain division of labor, seek common benefit path." Sandong, director of the Center for Global Investment and Trade research at Fudan University, told reporters. and choose which section of the industrial chain, is the test of wisdom, endurance of the key competition.

Policy implementation: Decades of adherence

And after looking at their own positioning, can the local government put the same strategy, adhere to decades? This is the most worrying issue for the development of large data centers.

Wugansha said that the science and technology industry is high-risk, most of the projects are not final, and large data centers in the initial stage of infrastructure construction, the basic framework of building, is very "burning money." "This will require a session of local officials, all adhere to the unified strategy does not give up." ”

Among them, talent gathering is the most difficult link. "All efforts are empty without the talent of the big data industry," he said. Wugansha to reporters, "if according to Silicon Valley talent gathering of Stanford University, it takes half a century, according to Hong Kong's experience, also need twenty or thirty years." ”

In the talent gathering, "the first crab-eating" qinhuangdao more profound experience. Since 2009, the word "big data" has gradually become a buzzword in foreign internet technology, and it has been widely discussed in China for nearly two years. However, prior to the scientific and technological debate, as early as 2008, Qinhuangdao Economic and technological Development zone of the data industry base, has been completed and put into use, which also makes it the country's first data industry base, in the next few years, there is no obvious domestic competitors.

This time node, the reason is very important, because it reflects the "first crab eating" test base, in the "stones" of the experience of the difficulties, this to the city after the addition of similar data base construction, has a reference role.

Who was the first in the country to put forward the development of large data industry? Reporter specifically asked about the specific situation at that time, Wang Jijun told reporters, May 2008, from 1995 as the Director of Qinhuangdao Economic and technological development zone, Hu Yingjie, looking for industrial structure upgrade strategy, he and the Chinese Society and Economic Research Center Director Zhaozhonghai Consultation, Zhaozhonghai Beijing University Professor Shu brought to the development zone, Shu immediately in the Industrial transformation Seminar, not only put forward the construction of large data industry base, but also put forward specific steps, after the Development zone strategic planning, basically in accordance with the Shu recommended steps to implement. In fact, not only is the large data industry, the development zone proposed four major industries: Data industry, bioengineering, energy conservation and environmental protection, new energy, two years after the State Council as the seven major categories of emerging industries, in the national promotion.

However, the development of large data industry bases is bound to undergo a more difficult process of exploration in a situation where we do not even know what large data is. "To be honest, it's really hard to grope!" According to our plan, the preceding 5 years are the foundation of the time, including infrastructure, and the major scientific research institutions of the project cooperation. Fortunately, now our project has begun to produce results, some have been put into practical use. Qinhuangdao Economic and technological development zone staff to reporters sigh.

And for your new district, Chongqing, Jiang River New area, Lanzhou new district, such as "Up-and-coming", despite the current ambitious, propaganda of the mammoth, the goal is also more lofty, but can decades as a day to insist on "digging a well", until "digging water to"? Time will prove.

(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)