[Global Times-Global Network Reporter Shi Jierui] From May 13 to 14, the 2025 "Day China" international media exchange event co-organized by the China Public Diplomacy Association and the Global Network set off a wave of enthusiasm. 23 media representatives from 19 countries in the Asia-Pacific region visited the three benchmark scenarios of Inner Mongolia's digital economy - the Inner Mongolia Data Trading Center in the capital Hohhot, the exploration port of Yungu, and the Chahar High-tech Development Zone in Ulanqab, the grassland Yungu, and personally felt the surging momentum of China's northern Xinjiang digital economy development.

Data center: the core engine for activate factor value

Asia-Pacific reporters and domestic media reporters listened to the introduction at the Inner Mongolia Data Trading Center

As the only data circulation hub in the autonomous region, since its official establishment in October 2024, the Inner Mongolia Data Trading Center has built a diversified product matrix covering the fields of communications, finance, transportation, etc. 503 data products cover various types such as data applications, data APIs, data reports, etc. The platform's innovation value has attracted international attention. Philippine Business Mirror reporter Michael Wesley Kabagon lamented: "(currently) 67,000 P computing power has reached the world's top level. Its technical capabilities to reduce financial transaction delays and improve the reliability of bulk data transmission are reshaping the efficiency boundaries of the capital market. This change may profoundly affect the flow of international investment and risk management model."

According to Guo Haiwei, a fourth-level researcher at the Hohhot Big Data Bureau, the center has been included in the National Data Trading Institution Mutual Recognition and Interoperability Initiative Promotion Group in April this year, and will accelerate the construction of a national integrated data market by building a data circulation network that radiates to the northwest and links the country.

The real and virtual reality: an innovative experimental field for digital cultural tourism

Pakistani reporter Sayed Aoun Mohammed wears VR equipment to experience interactive scenes

In the exploration port of Yungu Realm in Helinger New District, the Asia-Pacific reporter team has personally experienced the amazing moment when digital technology empowers cultural communication. Through high-precision somatosensory VR equipment, the historical scroll "Tang Dynasty Time Travel" has achieved immersive and revitalized interpretation. Sayed Aoun Mohamed, head of the news investigation team of Pakistan's "Sach News", said excitedly after the experience: "This is my first time wearing VR glasses, and I feel very shocked. I will recommend my colleagues to experience it." Huang He, general manager of Yuntian Shengle, Inner Mongolia, said that since the opening of Yungu Realm Exploration Port, it has attracted a large number of tourists to visit and experience it. In the future, the Exploration Port will continue to enrich the project content, improve service quality, and strive to become a well-known new landmark of digital exhibitions at home and abroad.

Computing power hot land: forging a global benchmark for the intelligent computing industry

Chahar High-tech Development Zone demonstrates its strength with shocking data: 16 major data projects have been implemented, 440,000 servers support 58,000 P computing power system, and carries the ultra-large-scale model training and inference business of top companies such as Huawei and Alibaba. Nick Mar, editor-in-chief of Afghanistan's Kabul Times, stopped at the outdoor energy storage power exhibition area of ​​the exhibition hall of the Talent Science and Technology Innovation Park in Ulanqab (Beijing-Mongolia) Talent Science and Technology Innovation Park, sighed: "If such equipment can be imported into our country, it will not only alleviate the power shortage problem to a certain extent, but also provide valuable opportunities for commercial and market growth."

Nik Mar (Chinese) Editor-in-chief of the Kabul Times Learn about the relevant introduction in the exhibition hall of the Ulanqab (Beijing-Mongolia) Talent Science and Technology Innovation Park

Uriruge, Deputy Director of the Economic Development and Investment Promotion Bureau of Chahar High-tech Development Zone, drew an ambition blueprint: strive to achieve a scale of 120,000 P computing power by 2025, the big data industry fixed investment plan will be completed 7.5 billion, and the operating income will exceed 10 billion yuan to build the country's largest smart computing industry cluster.

This in-depth visit, which lasted two days, not only showed the world the hard-core strength of Inner Mongolia's "Grassland Cloud Valley", but also outlined the answer to the northern Xinjiang for the high-quality development of China's digital economy through the three dimensions of data element circulation, digital cultural innovation, and intelligent computing cluster construction.