People visit a display center of the National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Area in southwest China's Guizhou Province, May 22, 2019. In Guizhou Province, which hosts China's first state-level big data pilot zone, the integration of big data with sectors such as real economy, social management, civil service and rural revitalization has brought significant changes to people's life. Photo: Xinhua

Guangzhou in South China's Guangdong Province has established a digital new infrastructure project library under efforts to boost investment in new infrastructure construction, with a total investment of about 260 billion yuan ($37.2 billion) for the first group of projects. 

The first 254 projects have been collected in the library. 89 are related to 5G and big data, with a total investment of 97 billion yuan, Southcn.com reported on Thursday.

Guangzhou is among the latest cities to boost new infrastructure construction through a digital industrial layout. 

Changsha in Central China's Hunan Province invested 214.2 billion yuan in 1,320 major projects in the first half of the year, accounting for 59.6 percent of its annual plan, according to data from the city's development and reform commission.

The Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone planned to build 1,662 5G base stations by the end of this year, achieving full 5G networks coverage in the zone, per a 5G construction guideline released on May 29.

More than 200 million yuan will be invested to support enterprises in implementing 5G application scenarios in the zone.

Changsha is now vigorously promoting the construction of new infrastructure projects such as big data center and industrial park and smart urban rail transit. Construction has begun for 622 new projects, of which 286 have commenced ahead of schedule despite the coronavirus outbreak.

New infrastructure, together with new urbanization initiatives and major projects, will be given priority in China this year in a bid to expand effective investment, according to the Government Work Report released in May.

A total of 3.75 trillion yuan in special local government bonds are set to be issued, a 1.6 trillion yuan increase over last year.

Another city making efforts to boost new infrastructure is the manufacturing city of Changzhou in East China's Jiangsu Province. Total investment in new infrastructure projects by Wednesday exceeded 100 billion yuan, covering seven major fields including 5G base stations, ultra-high voltage facilities, artificial intelligence and the industrial internet.

North China's Tianjin Municipality, which neighbors the country's capital city of Beijing, was last week in urgent need of increasing its power supply capacity as the expansion of 5G facilities in its big data center required more electricity.