After China Star rescued the 12307 ticketing system from collapse, public opinion flipped overnight.
People were shocked to find:
"It's not lagging anymore!"
"I got in with one click—is it just off-peak?"
"No way, it's peak time right now."
"Then how the hell is it running so smooth?!"
"The Railway Department pulled it off!"
"I take back everything I said. Respect."
📍 Outside the Railway Administration Building
Director Cui turned to Haifeng.
"President Lu, would it be alright if I visited your data center personally?"
"Of course," Haifeng nodded. "We'd be happy to show you around.
Bring a few programmers to—our staff can even give them some technical training."
"Fantastic. Thank you so much!"
Haifeng arranged a private charter flight that evening and flew the group to Piao City. It was already late, so he checked everyone into a hotel and planned the visit for the next day.
🏢 The Next Morning – China Star Data Center (Phase I)
As they approached, Director Cui blinked in confusion.
"This is your data center?"
They were standing before what looked like a construction site.
"This is the second phase—we haven't started building it yet," Haifeng explained.
"The first phase is just ahead."
They arrived at a large, unassuming industrial building a few minutes later.
"This is it," Haifeng said.
"Li Jun will give you the tour—he knows it better than I do."
🚪 The Tour Begins
Li Jun led them through the entrance.
"Welcome to China Star Data Center – Phase I.
It's not large yet—we're still in early deployment—but it's fully operational and serves internal and public cloud clients."
At first, the group didn't see anything special.
But then Li Jun walked up to a secure access panel—no keypad, no ID card—just a screen.
Facial recognition.
As soon as it scanned him, the security door slid open.
"Whoa. That's sci-fi level!"
"Your server rooms are locked like secret labs!"
Inside, it was pitch black—only faint, blinking lights from within.
Li Jun flicked a switch.
💡 Lights ON.
Rows and rows of servers appeared, like a metallic army standing in formation. Towering black racks extended into the distance. The room's scale was overwhelming.
"...Holy crap."
"Are we in a movie?"
"This feels like the set of a blockbuster!"
"This isn't just a data center—it's a fortress."
The group stared, awestruck.
"This is just one of five floors," Li Jun said casually.
"The third floor houses our supercomputer, which is ranked in the top 5 globally.
The other four are densely packed with custom-built China Star servers."
Even one server, taken alone, wouldn't seem impressive.
But 50,000 servers per floor—all linked and managed by AI?
"This is like watching synchronized Tai Chi," someone whispered.
"One person looks slow. Ten thousand people look godlike."
🔧 Deep Dive – System Breakdown
Li Jun opened a rack.
"Every server is custom-built by China Star Research Institute.
One of these replaces ten standard servers.
All modular, fully hot-swappable."
He pointed around:
Backup diesel generators for emergency power
Redundant power supply lines
Massive water-cooling units for heat management
The group followed, stunned into silence.
"Our network ops team is one of the best in the country," Li Jun said proudly.
"We offer one-stop cloud services:
Hosting, site-building, cybersecurity, storage backup, network acceleration, and more."
Director Cui finally asked:
"How many servers are in total?"
Haifeng answered:
"Four floors, 50,000 servers per floor, plus the supercomputer on the fifth.
That's 200,000 active nodes, not including reserves."
"My god…"
"And how do you balance all this?"
Haifeng explained calmly:
"We use AI-driven elastic computing."
"For example—say there's light traffic from Yanjing to Meng Province.
We only allocate a few dozen servers."
"But if it's Modu to Sichuan during peak hours?
The system can instantly mobilize thousands—or even tens of thousands—of units."
"Our AI manages everything. Humans don't need to intervene."
"Only a fraction of the servers are live at any given time. The rest are on standby."
Cui asked curiously:
"Why not keep them all running all the time?"
Haifeng smiled.
"Because that's inefficient. It wastes energy, generates heat, and lowers lifespan.
Dynamic load balancing lets us minimize cost and maximize uptime."
At that moment, every official in the delegation understood:
This wasn't just cloud infrastructure.
This was the future.