The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launches the 13th Five-Year Plan

China's cloud computing industry is about to usher in a golden opportunity for development. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has launched the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” for cloud computing and will focus on cultivating leading enterprises, exerting their radiation effects on industrial development and building a cloud computing industry chain. Under the circumstance that government agencies are vigorously leading localization of information, the realization of import substitution of domestically-manufactured equipment has become the only way to ensure information security, especially after frequent information security incidents such as “prism door” and “hacker attack”. The actual demand for domestically-manufactured equipment that can be managed and controlled, as well as information security, has repeatedly increased, and the process of import substitution for domestically-manufactured equipment has also greatly accelerated. It is believed that with the further landing of the “13th Five-Year Plan” for cloud computing, the pace of localization of information equipment in the future is expected to further accelerate, and the cloud computing industry is expected to usher in explosive growth.

Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Launches "13th Five-Year Plan" for Cloud Computing

According to Chen Wei, Director of the Software Services Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has started the "13th Five-Year Plan" for cloud computing. It is reported that in 2014 China's cloud computing industry development ideas and work focus is: to cultivate leading enterprises, to create a complete industrial chain; encourage powerful companies to merge and reorganize and concentrate resources; to play a leading role in the development of leading enterprises to stimulate the radiation, to create Cloud computing industry chain.

On a global scale, as early as 2006, Google took the lead in putting forward the concept of “cloud computing”. In recent years, the United States has led the development of cloud computing as the earliest country for cloud computing. In China, although cloud computing as an imported product started late, it has developed rapidly. On the whole, at present, the development of China's cloud computing industry has embarked on a unique "China road."

It is worth mentioning that China’s cloud computing industry has been supported by various government policies. As early as 2010, China has listed the cloud computing industry as a strategic emerging industry that the country has focused on cultivating and developing. The ministries and commissions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly decided to carry out cloud computing in five cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Wuxi. The pilot demonstration work of service innovation and development has since been gradually moved from concept to landing. In 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved national special funds to support cloud computing demonstration applications, supporting a total funding of up to 1.5 billion yuan. The first batch of funds was allocated to five pilot cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Wuxi. Demonstration projects. In 2012, the "12th Five-Year Plan for National Strategic Emerging Industries Development" was promulgated, and the Internet of Things and cloud computing projects were considered as one of the 20 key projects for China's "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" development. The scale of cloud computing industry has been rapidly developed.

Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and other ministries and other ministries further organized and implemented the 2014 cloud computing project and said that it will specifically support the construction of public cloud computing service platforms, big data services based on cloud computing platforms, cloud computing, and big data solutions. Promote the project in three areas.

Three Factors Help China's Cloud Computing Business Development

Right now, with the start of the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, the cloud computing industry is about to usher in a golden period of development. To sum up, the booming development of China’s cloud computing business is mainly due to the following reasons:

On the one hand, the cloud computing market has broad prospects. The potential huge market demand will prompt the rapid development of China's cloud computing industry. At present, the global cloud business is in a period of rapid development. According to the latest report released by IDC, in the next five years, the global spending on cloud computing services will increase by three times, and the growth rate will be six times that of the traditional IT industry. As the “rising star” in the cloud computing industry, China will undoubtedly be one of the fastest growing markets. According to estimates by Zero2IPO Research Center, China's cloud computing service market is growing at an average annual rate of 50%. It is estimated that by the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, China’s cloud computing service market will reach US$ 13.669 billion.

On the other hand, government cloud service outsourcing directly promotes the development of China's cloud computing industry. With the support of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and the Central Government Government Procurement Center, Trust Cloud Certification has announced the first round of passing the list of companies, and the Trusted Cloud Procurement pilot is about to start. According to the forecasts of authoritative institutions such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the government-enterprise information service market is expected to reach 50 billion yuan in the next few years. The latest research report from Guotai Junan also shows that the government procurement of cloud services from 2014 to 2016 is expected to increase 16-fold, from 400 million yuan to 6.3 billion yuan, a compound annual growth rate of 151%. Needless to say, government cloud service outsourcing will soon become an important promoter of cloud computing.

In addition, the country’s policy of stimulating information consumption is also conducive to fostering cloud computing market space. According to Bao Hong, the principal of the Internet Center of the Institute of Communications Standards, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Chinese government spends more than 50 billion yuan per year in the information market, which is a multiple of the public cloud. The policy is guiding government procurement of cloud services.

Domestic pace of information equipment is expected to accelerate

We know that cloud computing security and big data privacy protection are important prerequisites for the rapid development and application of the industry. After the “Prism Gate” incident, information security was promoted to a national strategic height, and cloud computing services became one of the targets of cyber security review, which provided domestic related companies with opportunities for import substitution. At the same time, under the influx of “de-IOE” in the financial industry, recently, Qualcomm and Microsoft’s microblogging industry has encountered an antitrust investigation in China, which also highlights the regulatory With regard to the degree of attention to national information security issues, it can be predicted that the cloud computing field is expected to set off a domestic alternative trend, and the market space for domestic cloud service providers will grow.

Analysts said that the Chinese government has raised information security to the height of ****, and the alternative trend of domestic hardware and software to import hardware and software represented by IOE is irreversible. The alternative path should be the most easily implemented hardware devices such as servers, cloud computing and cloud storage, and other software and services, and ultimately the core software platform such as operating systems and databases.

It is worth noting that when Premier Li Keqiang recently visited the Shandong Inspur Group, he was faced with the “requirements” of the person in charge of the company “I hope you support domestically-developed 'cloud computing' key applications to overseas as well as support for China’s high-speed rail.” Li Keqiang The Prime Minister promised on the spot that future visits will not only promote high-speed railways in China, China's nuclear power, but also recommend China’s “cloud computing” to the global market. This is also the first time that the leaders of the country have publicly stated that China’s cloud computing should be promoted to the world.

The "Cloud Computing in 2014" released by the Institute of Telecommunications of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows that at present, China's public cloud computing service market is still in the initial stage of low-volume, high-growth industries. There is no doubt that in this context, the basic software and equipment providers will be the biggest beneficiaries. In the future, with the further landing of the “13th Five-Year Plan” for cloud computing and the growing maturity of cloud computing and cloud storage technologies, more and more companies will choose to build information technology systems in the cloud. The pace of localization of information equipment to further accelerate, will enable the cloud computing industry to achieve explosive growth.