Ningbo accelerating constructing a smart city
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:27
Ningbo is to quicken the steps to constructing a smart city. According to the "Guidelines for the Accelerated Construction of a Smart City 2012" this year, Ningbo is going to allocate over 5 billion yuan for the promotion of the infrastructural programs of the information network, the government cloud computation center, the information co-sharing program, and other programs related to the construction of a smart city.
"According to the spirit of 12th Ningbo Congress of Party Representatives, Ningbo this year will concentrate on the goals of economic transformation, urban management and public services and by means of promoting the key programs accelerate the construction of a smart city in an overall way," said Xie Yuedi, Director of Ningbo Municipal Office of Smart City Construction.
It is learned that in 2012, in the construction of a smart city, Ningbo will highlight the following aspects: to strengthen the integration and co-sharing of smart infrastructural resources, to improve the application of smart technologies, to promote the smart industries, and to optimize the environment for a smart city.
With respect to the improvement of the infrastructural resources for a smart city, Ningbo will realize the goal of "fiber-to-the-home" in major urban areas. The WLAN will cover all public places like the airport, bus stations, schools, pubs and CBDs. The renovation of the telecommunication infrastructural facilities in the six districts of the city will be basically completed, making Ningbo one of the most competitive cities in China in the quality of communications, network bandwidth and comprehensive services. Ningbo will build professional databases of population, legal persons, natural resources, geography and creditability and a complete information co-sharing mechanism.
With respect to the improvement of the application of smart technologies, Ningbo will strive to be among the best of China in the construction of key programs in logistics, health, social management, urban management, and power grid. It will accelerate the construction of a number of pilot programs in smart traffic, smart education, smart public services, smart culture, smart uses of energies and smart marine economies. , In the 2nd Smart City Expo to open this year, Ningbo will release at least 10 applied technologies that are in the lead of China.
With respect to the promotion of smart industries, the city will make fresh progress in the construction of the Software R&D Base in Ningbo National Hi-tech Zone and the Smart Equipment R&D Base in Ningbo Hangzhou Bay New Area. It will introduce and promote a number of smart industries. Notable progress will be made in marketizing the pilot programs. The total output of industries of new generation electronic information products should grow by 25% and that of the output of software by 20%. The city will promote 10 demonstrative e-business enterprises and 30 e-business websites with the e-business turnover reaching 140 billion yuan
