China Mobile Global Intelligent Computing Center Officially Launches

This newspaper report (Reporter Yixin) on March 25th, China Mobile held the opening ceremony of the Global Intelligent Computing Center in Hong Kong under the theme “Intelligent Connectivity, New Journey of Computing.” Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and former Chief Executive of Hong Kong Carrie Lam, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong S.A.R. Sun Shangwu, Deputy Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government Paul Chan Mo-po, Chairman of China Mobile Chen Zhongyue served as the main officiant. Over 140 guests including China Mobile Vice President Li Hui-di, industry representatives, and core partners attended the opening ceremony, witnessing the official launch of the Global Intelligent Computing Center.

In his speech, Carrie Lam pointed out that at the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the unveiling and operation of China Mobile’s Global Intelligent Computing Center in Hong Kong is not only a result of the country’s new digital infrastructure development but also a reflection of Hong Kong’s role within the national development strategy. Currently, a new wave of technological revolution and industrial transformation is deepening, with artificial intelligence and big data profoundly changing production and daily life. The country has clearly stated its goal to accelerate building a strong network nation and digital China. Hong Kong needs to better integrate into and serve the national development strategy, leveraging its international research environment and top-tier talent. The China Mobile Global Intelligent Computing Center integrates high-performance computing, intelligent processing, and multimodal data fusion, providing low-latency, highly reliable computing power services, demonstrating the responsibility of state-owned enterprises to serve national strategies and help Chinese companies go global. The center will connect with multiple national-level computing hubs across the mainland, forming a “north-south connection and east-west integration” pattern, and will become a new landmark for Hong Kong’s technological innovation, contributing to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

Paul Chan Mo-po stated that China Mobile has excelled in communication infrastructure, computing facilities, and public services, benefiting Hong Kong and its people. The unveiling of the Global Intelligent Computing Center has profound and positive significance for Hong Kong’s digital economy and AI industry development. He shared key points on Hong Kong’s innovation and technology development: first, rapid development of the northern metropolitan area; second, China Mobile has built two large data centers in Tseung Kwan O and Fo Tan, with the newly launched center becoming one of Hong Kong’s most secure and operationally standard data centers; third, in AI, the “AI+ and Industry Development Strategy Committee” is formulating strategies to drive industrial transformation, and the SAR government is establishing the Hong Kong AI R&D Institute with increased funding to promote deep integration of AI across industries. In the future, Hong Kong will continue to leverage the unique “one country, two systems” advantage, actively integrate into the national development strategy, seize the important opportunity of the 14th Five-Year Plan to build an international innovation and technology hub, and accelerate technological innovation.

Chen Zhongyue expressed that China Mobile is rooted in Hong Kong, integrated into Hong Kong, and serving Hong Kong. The official launch of the Global Intelligent Computing Center is a significant milestone for China Mobile’s service development and global computing layout in Hong Kong. The center will serve as a key node in the global computing network, providing green, low-carbon, autonomous, and controllable computing services with ultra-low latency and high reliability for customers in Hong Kong and worldwide. Looking ahead, China Mobile aims to become a “world-class technology service enterprise,” continuously advancing infrastructure connectivity, fully supporting the construction of a world-class bay area, and injecting digital intelligence into Hong Kong’s prosperity. First, strengthening the digital foundation by making Hong Kong a core node to build a comprehensive global information network that connects and serves locally, helping Hong Kong integrate into the national integrated computing network and supporting the smooth development of its economy and society. Second, enriching application scenarios, strengthening the AI+ global ecosystem alliance, deepening flagship projects in Hong Kong, and promoting intelligent, green, and integrated development across industries. Third, expanding the industrial ecosystem by leveraging Hong Kong’s unique advantages of backing the motherland and facing the world, relying on China Mobile’s network, computing power, and ecological synergy to help Hong Kong build an international innovation and technology center and continuously enhance its global competitiveness.

It is reported that the China Mobile Global Intelligent Computing Center is located in Fo Tan, Sha Tin, Hong Kong. As the largest single-scale flagship center in Hong Kong, it can support training and inference of large models with hundreds of billions of parameters. Driven by AI, the center relies on intelligent scheduling, autonomous inspection by robots and drones, digital twin technology, and more to achieve energy saving, operation, and maintenance, and service intelligence. The completion of the center will significantly enhance Hong Kong’s high-performance intelligent computing resource supply, promote industry-academia-research collaborative innovation, empower Hong Kong’s AI industry development, and help Hong Kong build an international innovation and technology hub. Leveraging Hong Kong’s geographical advantages and China Mobile’s global network resources, the center connects five major land routes between Guangdong and Hong Kong, over 100 submarine and land cables, and more than 440 overseas PoP points, creating an international intelligent computing hub based in Hong Kong, radiating to Asia-Pacific, and connecting globally. It will become a bridgehead for China’s AI ecosystem going overseas, providing high-quality intelligent computing services for global clients.

During the opening ceremony, guests visited the exhibition hall of the Global Intelligent Computing Center. The hall showcased a one-stop integrated service experience with standardized products, AI+ industry scenario solutions, a digital foundation for global cloud intelligence, and a matrix of AI+ intelligent service capabilities, illustrating the full-chain technological strength empowering digital upgrades across industries worldwide.

In the future, China Mobile will use the Global Intelligent Computing Center as a key hub to continuously optimize technological innovation and ecological cooperation, promote deep integration of intelligent computing and the digital industry, and further develop the global intelligent computing network, providing professional computing power services and solutions for Hong Kong and the global digital economy.