The practice and prospect of smart cities in China’s urbanization process

Abstract

With the rapid development of information technology, the construction of smart city in China has become an indispensable part and support force of new urbanization. By reviewing the practice of smart city in China and reflecting on the experience of smart city construction, this paper puts forward that the construction of smart city should go beyond the perspective of technological progress to build a people-oriented society, and proposes the forward-looking construction of smart city in the new era: building a more intelligent urban society in the process of China’s urbanization.

Smart Cities and Global Value Chain Upgrading: Evidence from China

“…These 8 tasks were further decomposed into more than 20 detailed smart city projects such as international e-commerce, international service outsourcing, smart environmental protection, smart enterprises, smart industrial parks, and smart innovation. Some researchers have conducted case studies on specific smart city pilots in China [29,50], and pointed out the best cases, for example, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Hangzhou [51].…”

“…The first group is about the concept of smart cities. Although the idea of smart cities can be traced back to the 1990s in the literature, the contemporary concept originated from IBM's Smarter Planet initiative in 2008, which considered cities as smart if they fully used IT in different industries and realized optimized and dynamic management of production and lifestyles [29]. Since then, a variety of conceptual frameworks for smart cities have been developed; however, there is no agreement on how to define smart cities according to the literature review articles [30][31][32].…”