With the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence technology, intelligent computing power has become a core resource in global technological competition. As the key infrastructure for the comprehensive urban digital transformation, the urban intelligent computing power base provides solid support for innovative applications of artificial intelligence. This paper examines the current development situation of urban intelligent computing power base, assesses their development trends, and systematically analyzes existing problems, including inadequate coordination in the construction of intelligent computing infrastructure, immature technologies and markets in intelligent computing networks, and dual pressure from energy consumption and green power applications. Correspondingly, it proposes four suggestions: optimizing the investment and construction model of urban intelligent computing centers, accelerating the development of urban intelligent computing networks, and promoting the integrated development of computing power and green initiatives. These suggestions aim to provide guidance for the construction of urban intelligent computing power base.
The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology has given rise to subversive changes in urban forms, accelerating the advent of human-machine symbiotic cities and marking the in-depth coupling of technology and urban civilization. The transformative reshaping of urban physical space, social space, and spiritual-cultural space brought by human-machine symbiotic cities is manifested in the following aspects: coexistence of humans and machines gives birth to multi-dimensional urban spaces; human-machine collaboration reshapes the rules of social operation; and machine intelligence triggers cognitive revolutions and ethical reconstruction. The subversive reshaping of urban space brings about potential social risks, such as the space competition between intelligent robots and humans, risks of employment structure transformation and pressure on social security, challenges to the adaptability of urban governance for intelligent subjects, as well as risks of social degradation and ethical anomie, which urgently needs to put forward countermeasures for moving towards a partner-based human-machine symbiotic city.
Based on an in-depth study of digital empowerment in industry-city integration, this paper innovatively defines the concept and characteristics of digital industry-city integration. It also conducts a thorough analysis of its operational mechanisms, including the technology-driven mechanism, industry collaboration mechanism, spatial restructuring mechanism, and resource allocation mechanism. Furthermore, this paper explores the practical challenges faced by digital industry-city integration, such as technological bottlenecks, institutional barriers, talent shortages, and security risks. Drawing on existing local practical experiences, this paper puts forward countermeasures for promoting digital industry-city integration.
This paper centers on the construction of urban trusted data space. It begins by reviewing the development situation and typical practices in the realm of trusted data space across the European Union, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and China, thereby revealing the distinctive characteristics that foreign entities focus on industry-specific data space while China engages in multi-dimensional explorations. Based on this, this paper analyzes the positioning and core requirements of urban data space, encompassing aspects such as data circulation, development and utilization, interconnection, and fundamental supporting capabilities. It further conducts an in-depth examination of key challenges encountered in the current construction process, including insufficient data supply, inefficient supply-demand matching, deficiencies in legal regulations and standards, immature technical architectures, and ambiguous construction and operation models. Finally, it proposes promotional suggestions in four dimensions: policy guidance, infrastructure and scenario breakthroughs, technological research and development, and standard formulation. These suggestions aim to provide theoretical and practical references for constructing secure, credible, and efficiently collaborative urban data space, facilitating urban digital transformation and the market-oriented allocation of data elements.
Against the backdrop of advancing digital reform, multi-cross scenarios, as a key driver of such reform, have increasingly evolved into a central engine for governance transformation and public value creation. Grounded in a practical perspective, this paper systematically addresses three core questions in the construction of multi-cross scenarios, namely “what to construct”, “how to construct” and “how to operate”. It innovatively proposes the “354 Model” which encompasses “Identification-Design Generation-Operation”. This model aims to effectively overcome the challenges in building complex scenarios that span departments, administrative levels, and functional domains, thereby providing a systematic and actionable practical paradigm.
With the deepening advancement of comprehensive urban digital transformation, the technological architecture of smart cities is undergoing holistic restructuring. Constructing a high-quality integrated urban digital platform has become a common strategic choice for many regions to advance smart city development in the current stage. This paper systematically analyzes the new requirements of comprehensive urban digital transformation across technological, application, and industrial dimensions. It identifies the integrated urban digital platform as an inevitable requirement for achieving management restructuring, process reengineering, and architecture reshaping within this transformation. Drawing on advanced practical experiences from Chongqing, Hangzhou, Xiong’an, and other cities, the paper proposes a holistic “three-layer and two-system” framework for the integrated urban digital platform. Furthermore, specific implementation pathways are outlined, focusing on three key aspects: coordinating the development of a citywide shared infrastructure network, integrating and creating universally reusable integrated data resources across domains, and collaboratively establishing a unified hub for urban general technologies and capabilities. This research aims to provide scientific guidance and practical references for comprehensive urban digital transformation in the current stage.
Urban safety monitoring and management constitutes a crucial component of resilient city construction. In recent years, China has made remarkable progress in the monitoring technology and application of resilient cities. However, the current monitoring method system is generally dominated by extensive management, which lacks the ability to conduct refined monitoring of urban underground resources. The urban monitoring system has not yet achieved multi-dimensional digital and intelligent monitoring, making it difficult to meet the demands of unified urban management. Based on this context, this article first discusses the standardization system construction and application promotion for strengthening resilient city development. Furthermore, relying on the existing optical cable network and combining the advantages of distributed optical fiber sensing automatic monitoring technology, this paper applies artificial intelligence algorithms to optimize the monitoring scheme for urban construction damage risks.
The development of digital twin technology has injected strong new impetus into urban development and comprehensively enhanced the overall capacity of cities to respond to disasters. Based on the research achievements of domestic and foreign academic circles, this paper systematically sorts out the practical paths of digital twin in enhancing the resilience of cities in various scenarios from three key stages: pre-disaster prevention, mid-disaster response, and post-disaster recovery. Through the analysis of case studies in scenarios such as accident disasters, natural disasters, social disasters, economic risks, and technological risks, it deeply analyzes the application value and experience of digital twin technology in different resilient urban scenarios. From the dimensions of concept, technology, scenario, and policy, it constructs the realization path of digital twin technology empowering resilient cities, providing theoretical and practical references for enhancing urban resilience and improving urban governance through digital twin technology, and promoting the construction of resilient cities to a new height.
As a new type of production factor, the multiplier effect of data hinges on the depth of its openness and the efficiency of its operation in the public domain. However, prominent structural contradictions, namely “unable to be sufficiently supplied, difficult to circulate freely, and challenging to be utilized effectively”, urgently require breakthroughs through business model innovation and technological integration. Based on this premise, this study systematically reviews the practices of public data authorization operation and proposes a future development pathway from the perspective of “business-centric with technology as an enabler”.
Digital twin cities represent a new concept and model for the development of smart cities, and have become one of the important paths to promote the comprehensive digital transformation of cities. Focusing on “what to build” and “how to build” in digital twin cities, this paper presents three core viewpoints. Firstly, a five-dimensional model for digital twin city construction is established. Secondly, the construction ideas of the five dimensions are clarified. Thirdly, the development suggestions of “classified policy implementation, characteristic leadership, and ecological collaboration” for digital twin cities are proposed, providing useful references for the managers, builders, and operators of digital twin cities, and helping to achieve high-quality construction and sustainable development of digital twin cities.
The digital governance model has become an important path to solve the “big city problems” and improve governance capacity. Although certain progress has been made in urban digital governance in terms of technological integration and scenario application, it still faces problems such as difficulties in cross-departmental collaboration, insufficient data governance capacity, and poor effectiveness of technological application. Based on the practical investigation of urban digital governance and combined with the new trends in urban digital governance, this study analyzes the feasible paths for building an intelligent and efficient urban governance system empowered by digital intelligence under the new trends from four aspects: institutional mechanisms, platform support, scenario construction, and management methods, so as to provide reference for realizing modernization of urban governance.
In the context of the overall digital transformation of urban areas, the construction of intelligent center of urban operation and governance, as a basic and pioneering work, is not simply a pile of technology, but a systematic change involving systems, technology and operations. Based on analyzing the connotation and construction significance of the intelligent center of urban operation and governance, this paper takes the “Sui Intelligent Management” urban operation and management center of Guangzhou as an example, analyzes its overall structure, construction and operation mechanism and highlights, reveals the key role of the intelligent center of urban operation and governance in improving the effectiveness of urban governance, and puts forward suggestions for future improvement of the intelligent center of urban operation and governance. Research shows that the intelligent center of urban operation and governance should focus on the requirements of integrated promotion of “fixes interconnection, data integration, platform connectivity, and business connectivity” to optimize and upgrade, and ultimately evolve into urban intelligence, and promote urban governance to leap from “digitalization” to “smartization”.
In the process of digital transformation across urban areas, data, as a core foundational resource and innovation driver, is becoming increasingly important. To build a systematic government data architecture system, improve the data element empowerment system, and promote the development and utilization of data resources, providing solid support for the digital transformation of urban areas, this paper analyzes the connotations and extensions of the government data element empowerment system and proposes a government data architecture system oriented towards the digital transformation of megacities. The design unfolds from four dimensions: organizational support, mechanism support, data architecture, and security assurance, forming a comprehensive government data architecture system that covers the entire process of government data element empowerment. The aim is to provide valuable references for the design of government data architecture systems and to advance the digital transformation of urban areas.
As the national capital and an international hub for scientific and technological innovation, Beijing places high priority on seizing the opportunities presented by the new wave of scientific and technological revolution. This paper focuses on the digital economy to explore Beijing’s new models, experiences, and approaches in its digital-intelligent transformation. It centers on the core themes of Beijing’s digital-intelligent transformation, elucidating its relationship with the city’s macro-level policies and evolutionary trajectory, while analyzing the supporting systems underpinning Beijing’s digital economic development. Finally, it summarizes Beijing’s six-dimensional practical experience in fostering innovative development of the digital economy.
Cities play an important role in China’s economic and social development, cultural inheritance, and improvement of people’s well-being. Striving to advance the digital transformation of cities is a key measure to firmly grasp the initiative in development. From the perspective of promoting the in-depth development of urban digital transformation guided by value, this paper deeply analyzes the current situation of urban digital transformation and development, and proposes value system of urban digital transformation. It also analyzes the value realization path in combination with local practices. In addition, it puts forward countermeasures and suggestions for the high-quality digital transformation of cities, providing theoretical and practical references for the implementation and value release of urban digital transformation in China.