China Releases Guiding Opinions on Deepening Smart City Development

TapTechNews May 20th news, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Bureau, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Natural Resources today released the 'Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting the City-wide Digital Transformation of Cities'.

The 'Opinions' pointed out that by 2027, the city-wide digital transformation of cities across the country will achieve remarkable results, forming a number of livable, resilient, and smart cities that are horizontally connected, vertically penetrating, and with their own characteristics, strongly supporting the construction of Digital China. By 2030, the city-wide digital transformation of cities across the country will make a comprehensive breakthrough, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security will be comprehensively enhanced, and a number of Chinese modern cities with global competitiveness in the digital civilization era will emerge.

TapTechNews summarizes the requirements and goals proposed by the 'Opinions' as follows:

Establishing the Common Foundation for Urban Digitalization

Encouraging the development of intelligent analysis, intelligent scheduling, intelligent supervision, and auxiliary decision-making based on technologies such as artificial intelligence, fully supporting and enabling the construction and development of urban digital transformation scenarios.

Encouraging localities where conditions permit to promote the functional integration, collaborative development, and application empowerment of basic platforms such as urban information models, spatio-temporal big data, basic information of territorial space, and real-scene three-dimensional China, providing a unified spatio-temporal framework for urban digital transformation, and exploring and promoting the construction of digital twin cities in an orderly manner according to local conditions, promoting the landing of digital twin scenarios such as virtual-real symbiosis, simulation deduction, and iterative optimization.

Promoting the New-Type Integrated Development of Industry and City

Innovating digital scenarios of the integration of production space and living space, strengthening the big data analysis of urban space development and utilization, promoting the digital empowerment of suburban new cities, and realizing the multi-centered, networked, and clustered development of cities.

Promoting the 'digital renewal' of cities, accelerating the intelligent upgrading of infrastructure in urban micro-units such as blocks and business districts, exploring the innovation of application scenarios using digital technologies, and stimulating the service level and digital vitality of the integrated development of industry and city.

Enriching Inclusive Digital Public Services

Enhancing the efficiency of the 'One-stop Service', guided by the convenience of the people and enterprises, exploring the value-added reform of government services, expanding the breadth and depth of enterprise-related services, promoting the transformation of government services from 'able to handle' to 'easy to handle', increasing the streamlining of links and the optimization and reengineering of processes, and further promoting the 'efficient handling of one thing' basically covering high-frequency items of urban public services.

Supporting localities to establish a multi-party participation and public supervision mechanism, and timely responding to the concerns of the people. Exploring the establishment of a resident service 'one-card pass' with the social security card as the carrier. Promoting the integration of digital technologies and public services such as education, medical care, housing, employment, and elderly care, promoting the cross-temporal sharing of high-quality public resources, and enhancing the coverage and balanced inclusiveness of service resources.

Strengthening the digital empowerment of affordable housing and the construction of urban villages. Promoting the digital transformation of barrier-free facilities and public services for the elderly and the disabled, actively giving play to the role of social and market forces to help key groups cross the digital divide.

Promoting the creation of low-cost, high-experience, and interactive community and home-based smart elderly care service scenarios. Popularizing the intelligentization of digital life, accelerating the construction of new scenarios such as smart catering, smart travel, digital family, on-demand economy, and instant retail, and creating new landmarks of urban digital consumption.

Strengthening the application of digital protection and inheritance of urban historical and cultural heritage, deeply excavating urban characteristic cultural resources with digital technologies, enriching the supply of digital cultural creations and digital content, and developing smart tourism.

Promoting Digital Collaborative Development

Promoting the digital integrated development of urban agglomerations, promoting the optimal layout of digital infrastructure, strengthening the sharing and utilization of data elements, the inclusive sharing of digital services, and the efficient collaboration of digital governance in urban agglomerations such as the Yangtze River Delta and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Promoting the east-west collaboration of the digital economy, carrying out activities such as the joint construction of digital industrial parks and digital consumption assistance, and strengthening the replication and promotion of advanced planning concepts, construction experience, and management models.

Bridging the urban-rural digital divide, coordinating the joint construction of smart cities and digital villages, promoting the sharing of urban-rural digital facilities and the integration of data resources, the mutual promotion of industrial ecosystems, and the sharing of public services. Carrying out international cooperation on the city-wide digital transformation of cities, supporting the establishment of digital partnership relationships, and vigorously developing digital trade.

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