Financial support to boost Hohhot's computing and AI industries

Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, recently unveiled its ambitious goals of boosting green computing and AI industries to exceed 100 billion yuan ($13.8 billion) by 2027, fostering a 100 billion-yuan-level data computing power industry cluster, and becoming a national hub by 2030.

To establish itself as a key national computing power hub, the city will introduce a 500-million-yuan annual "computing power voucher" to support enterprises, universities, and research institutions in purchasing computing resources via the Horinger Multi-Cloud Computing Power Monitoring and Scheduling Platform.

Hohhot will develop the "Hohhot-Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" computing power supply corridor, opening a southward computing power channel. In an effort to enhance network transmission capabilities, a 5-million-yuan annual fund will be allocated to pilot "10-gigabit industrial parks" and reward application scenarios integrating 10G optical networks.

Efforts will be made to foster a computing power manufacturing ecosystem with a 10-million-yuan annual fund to support chip testing labs, innovative computing, network sensing equipment, and robotics research and development.

Meanwhile, 500 million yuan annually will be spent supporting leading enterprises and platform companies in establishing industry data open communities and enhancing data utilization capabilities for small and medium-sized enterprises.

Accelerating the construction of data industrial parks, 5 million yuan will be allocated annually to reward eligible digital industrial parks.

To strengthen talent development, Hohhot encourages local universities to align their disciplines with the data computing sector and collaborate with enterprises for internships and training programs. An annual total of 5 million yuan will support the construction of industry-education integration demonstration bases.