The Inner Mongolia 5G Industry Innovation Base is to be developed in Horinger New Area in Hohhot, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, following a launch ceremony held on Jan 19, reports Hohhot Daily.

The Inner Mongolia 5G Industry Innovation Base is a platform for Horinger New Area to develop innovation and new applications in its 5G industry, in cooperation with China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Tower, and Huawei.

The base marks another breakthrough for Horinger New Area in building a digital industry platform, gathering 5G businesses, and promoting 5G application innovation.

In recent years, Horinger has supported the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure by relying on its industrial base advantages, and has accelerated the introduction of various big data and cloud computing infrastructure projects.

Three major operators - China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom - have established their largest cloud computing data center bases in Horinger, and successively introduced enterprises including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Inspur and Sinopec, as well as the data storage needs of national ministries.

This has formed a big data industry chain that includes core businesses such as data storage, cleaning and processing, and related businesses such as electronic information manufacturing, software and information services, service outsourcing, e-commerce, big data finance, and AI innovation incubation.

As of the end of 2020, there are 583 strategic emerging industry enterprises in Horinger, of which 71 are digital economy enterprises, accounting for 12.2 percent of all market entities.

In 2020, digital economy projects completed an investment of 887 million yuan ($137.22 million), accounting for 22.3 percent of the annual fixed asset investment of Horinger.