Our country will accelerate the development of the space computing industry, maintaining a leading position in the global "first tier."

People’s Finance News (April 3)—A reporter learned today from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology that China will accelerate the cultivation of an ecosystem for the space computing industry. Xie Lina, Deputy Director of the Data Center Department at the Cloud Big Data Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), said that computing satellites can form networks through laser communications, achieving seamless global coverage, and can process data directly in orbit. This compresses the data timeliness for scenarios such as disaster early warning and resource monitoring from several hours down to the seconds level—something ground-based computing cannot achieve. Xie Lina said that, at present, China is the first country to achieve on-orbit networking operation of a space-computing constellation, and in terms of engineering practice and the speed of commercialization and deployment, it has already moved ahead of the rest of the world, placing it in the global “first echelon” in the space computing track.

Zhao Ce, Deputy Director of the Information and Communications Development Division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, introduced that, by exploring space computing applications in scenarios such as real-time remote sensing processing, communications enhancement, and spatiotemporal information, China is exploring innovative integrated service of “communications-navigation-remote sensing computing.” Support will be provided to conduct on-orbit data processing in fields such as the low-altitude economy and emergency communications, to promote integrated development between computing power and satellite internet, among others. It is understood that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will support relevant units to actively carry out forward-looking research on space computing technologies, gradually establish a standards system covering areas such as software and hardware, networks, and security, and promote R&D of technologies and products such as radiation-hardened onboard chips and inter-satellite laser communication. (CCTV News)