Eastern Data Western Computing 东数西算 - Digital China Wins the Future

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Nodal diagram of China's National Unified Computing Power Network.

Analysis

China’s National Unified Computing Power Network: Wired for AI

March 23, 2026

South China Morning Post illustrates the National Data Administration beginning its work.

Translation

NDA | Official Data Domain Glossary (Batch One)

December 30, 2024

NDA Director Briefs Qinghai Party Leaders on Green Computing Power

Strategy Milestone

Strategy Milestone: Green Computing Power Elevated to Core Political-Economic Issue

July 4, 2024

Analysis

National Data Administration’s Five “Toughest Battles”

March 16, 2023

Translation

Legal Daily | Injecting New Momentum Into Digital China Construction

March 15, 2023

“How China Will Dominate the Global Competition Over Data,” The National Interest, April 28, 2022

Update

The National Interest | How China Will Dominate the Global Competition Over Data

April 28, 2022

Analysis

Eastern Data, Western Computing: A “Server” for the Digital Silk Road

April 12, 2022

Key One: China has an elite digital triad of national strategies: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society. Together, they drive the country's digital-intelligent transformation into a Modernized Socialist Great Power. Although this website focuses on Digital China, understanding its full scope requires knowing all three.

Key Two: Digital China is both a strategy and a stack. The strategy—an ends, ways, and means framework—explains how the Party generates and employs digital power. The stack—a layered system architecture—shows how that power is built. Together, they provide an integrated model for understanding China’s national digital strategy.

“The struggle between China and the United States in cyberspace is intensifying. The U.S. policy of containment against China has expanded from physical space to cyberspace, aiming to place China in a passive position. Cyber warfare is no longer a matter of whether we want to fight it or not; it has reached a point where we have no choice but to respond."
Zheng Bijian, Face the Challenge with Comprehensive Planning; Strive to Build a World Class Cyber Great Power in Ten Years, State Council Secretariat Second Bureau, April 3, 2013

“The report of the 19th National Party Congress stated that “the principal contradiction in our society has transformed into the contradiction between the people’s ever-growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development.” This shift in contradictions is a change of global and historical significance, posing new demands on many aspects of our Party and country. Developing Digital China is about responding to these new changes and new demands, using digitalized means to resolve and address social contradictions. Against this backdrop, the central government explicitly put forward the new concept of building a “Smart Society” in the report.”
“The Mission of Digital China: Building a Smart Society,” Informatization of China Construction, August 29, 2018