China on Thursday announced the completion of its first computing power network covering the convergence of “general computing, intelligent computing, supercomputing and quantum computing" in Suzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province.
So far, this network has interconnected 21 intelligent computing centers, three national-level supercomputing centers, and three quantum computing centers.
The core of the computing power network is to utilize powerful network capabilities to aggregate and connect computing resources dispersed across various locations, and then dynamically schedule them in real-time according to demand, in order to achieve the optimal solution in terms of cost and efficiency. "[We] schedule different tasks to suitable computing resources to maximize overall effectiveness. The schedulable computing power accounts for one-sixth of the national computing power. For instance, the requirements of scientific computing like genetic sequencing will be allocated to various supercomputing centers across the country. In the future, it will be like creating a supercomputer by integrating computing power distributed in different locations," said Sun Shaoling, deputy director of China Mobile's Cloud Capability Center.
At China Mobile Cloud AI Conference 2025, Xia Bing, deputy head of the National Data Administration, highlighted the promotion of artificial intelligence and industrial innovation across society through intelligent scheduling of computing power tailored for key groups like small and medium-sized enterprises.
"By exploring and implementing intelligent scheduling integrated with the computing power and network, [we] provide optimal solutions for key groups, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, in terms of computing power, operation capacity, and storage capacity, thereby promoting the application of artificial intelligence and the development of industrial innovation of the whole society," said Xia.
China builds its first computing power network covering four calculation methods
The ongoing probe revolving around the late U.S. financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has become a powerful symbol of systemic dysfunction in Western political and judicial systems and has significantly eroded public trust, according to analysts.
In the latest episode of the China Global Television Network (CGTN) opinion show 'The Point with Liu Xin' which aired Wednesday, experts debated the ongoing controversies surrounding the latest release of documents in the so-called Epstein files.
The newly-released files totaling some three million pages have sparked serious scrutiny across the Atlantic, prompting the resignation of several political figures over their ties to Epstein, who died under mysterious circumstances in a maximum-security facility in 2019.
Han Hua, the co-founder and secretary general of the Beijing Club for International Dialogue, a Chinese think tank, noted how Epstein, in spite of his conviction, had seemingly built up an expansive network of the rich and powerful, and said the sense of "elite impunity" and the seeming disregard for morality among many of those involved has dealt a huge blow to Western democracy, which is supposedly built upon the basis of the rule of law.
"Right after 2008, Epstein certainly has built an even stronger and much larger Western elite circle including politicians, including academia, including the political and the religious figures like the Dalai Lama. So this actually indicates the 'bankruptcy' of the Western democracy from the moral high ground, from the rule of law. It is systematic damage to the whole system and also to the judicial and legal system. And they are building a circle that can protect Epstein and the elites in this circle from getting [allegations], from getting legally punished, so that the cases [could become] even larger. And there are so many victims, there is no perspective with regard to the victims to be protected," she said.
Josef Mahoney, a professor of politics and international relations at East China Normal University, said the ongoing Epstein saga has deeply flamed public distrust, exposing uncomfortable truths about how power operates behind closed doors.
"We've also seen, as has been raised, the question about whether or not the system can be trusted. There's intense distrust now in the system. But at the same time, I think the other point to be raised about moral authority is that what you see are leaders, figures from different fields, from across the political spectrum, essentially working together in a way, so they represent and they stoke divisions in society that exploit and suppress the people. But at the same time we see them, the left wing, the right wing, the center, all sort of having these extreme parties or relationships with each other, which really begs the question of whether or not there's a true democracy to begin with," he said.
Epstein case sows deeper distrust in Western politics, judicial systems: analysts
