Summit on smart city construction to be held in Qingdao

The First China's New Smart City Construction Summit will be held in November in Qingdao, Shandong province, the organizing committee announced at a news conference held on Aug 1 in Beijing.

The summit will be jointly hosted by the State Information Center, the Shandong Provincial Big Data Bureau and the Qingdao Municipal People's Government.

The summit is designed as a platform for displaying the latest achievements of China's new smart city construction, a platform for exchanging theoretical experience and practice of digital government, digital society, digital economy and new infrastructure, and a cooperation platform that gathers global forces to boost the construction of China's new smart city, said the organizing committee.

The event will consist of a main forum and four sub-forums. Top academicians and industry giants will be invited to share the latest concepts and advanced achievements in the construction of a new smart city, as well as explore a new model of new smart city construction that is people-oriented, demand-led and data-driven.

The New Smart City Innovation and Application Competition, an important part of the summit, will be launched on Aug 2 to select a batch of new smart city solutions that would be implemented nationwide.

Qingdao has in recent years been promoting new smart city construction and released a series of policies and measures to promote the all-round digital transformation of the city, covering urban governance, people's livelihoods, industrial upgrading, intelligent communities and other fields.