The project marks the completion of the overall layout for China's national integrated big-data center system. (Photo: CFP)

China has approved a project to build eight national integrated computing hubs with 10 data center clusters across the country, in a bid to improve computing capacity and better empower the country's digital development, according to the country's top economic planner.

The project, jointly approved by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the National Energy Administration, marks the completion of the overall layout for the national integrated big-data center system.

The eight national computing hubs will be built in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the eastern Yangtze River Delta region, the southern Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the southwestern Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, southwest China's Guizhou Province, northwest China's Gansu Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, according to the NDRC.