"Langfang: Silicic Valley in Chinese?" Bashny.Net

Langfang - not too large by Chinese standards (about 4 million) off the coast of the city, located in the north-east of the country. It was to this city experts are predicting become an information hub in northern China, where in the near future will be scheduled to accommodate data center unimaginable dimensions.

Years is not too plausible industrial city that lies between the two cities - Beijing (50 km) and Tianjin (90 km) - was not able to compete with their much more promising neighbors. But now, thanks all the same neighborhood, the city has a chance to become a major IT hub for the entire region.

depressed regions h4> In recent years, the funds are received in the development of the sphere of high-tech industry, have grown many times, and now account for about 20% of the GDP of the city. The roots of this situation lie in the past decade. Then for this territorial unit within government developed a special program to transform the neighborhood into the Chinese "Silicon Valley".

Before the fateful decisions of the government L'Enfant population were involved in the mining sector, the primary mineral processing and serving this business industry. But due to intensive human activity is not too rich deposits of gas, oil, coal and lignite have been exhausted, leading to cuts in production and mass layoffs. It could plunge the densely populated region in the state of permanent depression.

Founded in 2009, the company Range Technology Development (RTD) with its head office in Beijing to become truly "engine" for the development of high-tech industry Langfang, it was noted that the main actors.

IBM does not sleep h4> It RTD with IBM in 2011 began to build in Langfang largest data center not only in Asia but throughout the world. The main power of the future mega-data center will serve to build on its base of a giant cloud service. Property area is incredible - it will be 585,000 square meters, which is comparable to the area, for example, the Pentagon! Fully object will be put into operation until 2017.

The budget allocated for the construction of the data center, no less exciting. Originally voiced figure of $ 1, 6 billion according to the assistant to the president of the company RTD already revised upwards.

"The scale of the task that stands before us, the attention given to the project by the central authorities of the PRC, in the end, the sheer size of the budget makes our company very interesting for many business people, and we have both financial and political support at all levels. »

Place for the construction of such a large and modern IT center was also not chosen by chance. A company spokesman described the selection process: "We visited a lot of places, cities and still preferring the Langfang. The main factors eventually served as its extremely favorable geographical location (eds. Between the cities of Beijing and Tianjin) and the preferential treatment that applies to that territory. On the one hand - low price (compared with China) land allotment provided to us for the construction of the complex, on the other - a five-year tax amnesty applicable to us under applicable law here. "

Pilgrimage IT corporations in Langfang h4> Langfang has recently become truly "Mecca" for major IT players. Following IBM, the second largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in the world, the corporation Huawei, has announced plans to expand their computing capacity in Langfang. As the PR Manager Huawei: «Langfang already known in China as a large computer center, besides it is close to Beijing, where our research and production facilities." The company declined to disclose the budget of the project and its future at least approximate computing power.

Also in 2013, one of the leading telecommunications provider in China by China Unicom, launched plans for the construction of communication infrastructure in Langfang total value of close to $ 2 billion. This will be their third such project for the construction of large-scale data centers in North China. Two other projects are already in place in Beijing and Hohhot (Inner Mongolia province).

According to the report of the Industrial IT Alliance of China, the total market of data center services in China in 2013 amounted to just under $ 20 billion. Submitted by volume in the PRC computing power data centers, the country back in 2010 ranked first in the region, overtaking its regional rival - Japan. Growth rates of more and more data centers here just built up, whether Celestial Dotyanutsya when it to the leader of the US market is not clear, but it is clear that with such realities becomes obvious - the country's authorities have opened a new, colorful chapter in the history of a country town and its inhabitants .

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