Xi'an has strong scientific and technological strength and many talents. Its scientific and technological strength ranks third in the country after Beijing and Shanghai. By the end of 2012, it had more than 3,000 scientific research and development institutions of various types and various independent scientific research institutions. There are more than 460 institutions, including 231 national key laboratories, engineering technology research centers and industry testing centers, 440,000 professional and technical personnel of various types, and 55 academicians of the two academies.
In 2012, 337 municipal science and technology plan projects were implemented, including 26 high-tech projects and 216 scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation projects. Focus on supporting 118 high-tech enterprises, supporting the construction of 19 agricultural science and technology demonstration parks, and implementing 10 district and county industrial science and technology guidance projects. The annual technology market transaction volume was 30.375 billion yuan. The number of patent applications was 15,029, and the number of patent authorizations was 3,475. Xi'an Post is one of the six major communication centers (area code 029) and 11 first-class mail re-export offices in the country. Xi'an's informatization construction has developed rapidly, forming a modern telecommunications communication network with various communication means such as optical fiber, digital microwave, satellite, program-controlled switching, data and multimedia, covering the city's urban and rural areas, and connecting the country and the world. "Digital Xi'an" is under construction. Xi'an Telecom's broadband multimedia metropolitan area network has covered more than 90% of Xi'an urban areas and more than 40% of suburban counties.
Xi'an is the core hub of China's public computer network and China's multimedia information network in the five northwest provinces. At the same time, Xi'an is the only way to connect the five northwest provinces and China's public computer network, and has the largest network transmission line. . Xi'an Jiaotong University is also the northwest summary point of the China Education and Research Network and the northwest hub of the second generation Internet. The Internet data center established in Xi'an has unique network resources.
The Western Data Center is a project invested and constructed by China Telecom Group Corporation in 2002. It is one of the four major IDC hubs planned by China Telecom in the country. It is a very large Internet data exchange center that provides large-scale, high-quality, safe and reliable server hosting, bandwidth rental, disaster recovery center construction, and application service outsourcing to domestic and international enterprises and institutional customers of all types.