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    MORE THAN TECHNOLOGY

    Apr 09, 2020 5 minutes
    By Zhang Shasha
    Copyedited by Laurence Coulton

    An exemplar of infrastructure for its progress in engineering railways, roads and airports, China has turned its attention to a new field of developmental expertise.

    New infrastructure was first proposed at the Central Economic Work Conference in 2018. The concept has gained further traction in 2020.

    A meeting of senior Communist Party of China leaders on March 4 emphasized that the country is to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks and data centers. New infrastructure was divided into seven categories, namely 5G networks, extra-high voltage power grids, inter-city rail transit, new-energy vehicle charging stations, big data centers, artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial Internet.

    Since its commercial deployment in 2019, 5G has been the centerpiece of China’s new

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