Mission of Smart Cities in China in 2018

Dr. Sang ZiqinFiberhome Technologies Group

China

General aim – new urbanization

• Strategy of new urbanization: to promote people-orientedurbanization and improve quality.

TARGET: 100 million people migrating to cities in 5 years.

2018: Settle down 13million.Definition of city in 2014:Super city: >10 million peopleMegacity: 5-10 mBig city: 1-5 mMedium-sized city: 0.5-1 mSmall city: <0.5 m

Four major measures

I. Encouraging settlement in cities and towns: collegegraduates, rural migrants, etc.

II. Strengthening basic public services: medical insurance,telemedicine service, public rental housing, housingprovident fund, etc.

III. Speeding up the integration and development of urban andrural areas

IV. Building metropolitan areas, cultivating new medium-sizeand small cities, and shaping own-featured small towns

Policy of financial reward

• Central government: • provides financial incentives• establishes new national urbanization construction

fund

• Local governments: • promote the housing supply from multi-parties• improve the urbanization investment and financing

mechanism

• Other sources:• Public-Private Partnership (PPP) investment

• Public education for the children.

• Public health insurance

• Telemedicine services

• Public rental housing guarantee

• Housing provident fund

• Job fairs, career training, and entrepreneurship training for new residents

Strengthen basic public services for city residents

Improve the quality of urban development

integrates the development of the industrial economy, technological innovation, financial system, and human resources.

Eastern regions take the lead: • advanced manufacturing clusters• talent attraction• industrial upgrades.

Optimize the spatial layout of the city Three control lines:

ecological protection

Cultivated land protection

urban development boundary

Realize the interweaving of functional areas such as residential, office, business, and leisure

Promote city governance Use of ICT (Internet, big data, artificial intelligence)

Evaluation of achievements of smart cities

Build green and humanistic cities green and low-carbon development

treatment of urban water ecology

implementation of national water-saving action

building sponge cities

green development index system

Improve the quality of urban development

urban-rural integration

• Rural land reform

• rural construction land for lease

• Rural infrastructure

• Accelerate the construction of rural roads, water supply, gas supply, environmental protection, power grid, logistics, information, radio and television, and further improve rural drinking water safety

• Rural Industries Promotion

• Circulation of agricultural product

• rural leisure tourism pension

• "Internet +" modern agriculture

• facility agriculture

Emphasize master plan

Strengthen cooperation in tasks:

• urban planning

• industrial distribution

• Infrastructure

• public services

• ecological environment.

Develop metropolitan areas

Central cities + Surrounding medium-sized and small cities: • improve the attractiveness and capacities• guide the efficient allocation of factors among cities• improve the public transport network including municipal (suburban)

railways, rail commuting systems• promote infrastructure connectivity and public service sharing

Featured towns

two batches of featured towns announced:

403 nationally featured small towns

96 national sports and leisure featured towns

Thank you for your attention!

谢谢！