Building livable smart cities
The city is the home of human life. As an economic, political, and social hub, about half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. Urbanization has become the main direction of human development. It is the common pursuit of mankind to build a more livable city. With the new round of modernization, the rapid development of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G, and other information technologies has provided livable conditions for a comfortable and convenient life. Advanced technology is the "engine" of mankind's pursuit of a higher quality of life. With accelerating the popularization and application of digital technology, Huzhou is actively building smart, livable, and ecological cities and comprehensively promoting the digital economy, government, and society, to empower development in the digital engine, constantly meet the growing needs of the people's better life, and strive to build a high level of a modern and livable garden city.
With the theme of "Building livable smart cities", the final will explain the livable content of smart city as "smart economy, smart co-governance, smart people's well-being". On the basis of examining the local livable environment in Huzhou, the contestants can analyze the construction model and expansion content of the smart city in combination with the existing literature and data, and further put forward a smart life model that can combine economic development, social harmony, and comfortable living. Based on this, we hope that contestants can pool ideas, draw inspiration and plan more creative and feasible projects to achieve urban transformation and upgrading. We believe that your ability can provide more possibilities and practical values for the convenient, comfortable, and livable smart cities around the world! The theme of the final is explained below:
(1) Smart economy: Digital Connectivity and Inclusive Prosperity
The innovative economic structure in smart cities creates an inclusive economic model, which has the characteristics of being driven by people and provides a platform and opportunity for citizens to innovate, thus giving birth to strong development potential. Therefore, it not only provides adequate material security for urban livability, but also provides the possibility of working and creating self-worth for urban groups. What is the main mode and path of smart city economic development currently? How do these models relate to the construction of livable cities? Can we propose some improvements to the existing model? Moreover, can we draw an empirical model of the livable construction of smart cities?
(2) Smart co-governance: Smart Government Service and Public Participation
A smart city makes it possible for citizens and government to participate in urban governance together. The increasing emphasis on co-governance impels citizens and government to jointly promote the construction of the livable city and also improves the efficiency of relevant departments in working and serving citizens. For example, "Integrated Online Platform" provides a convenient way for citizens to solve problems online. What scenarios can reflect the smart government affairs brought by digital technology? What channels does technology provide for citizens to participate in urban governance? What new ideas of urban governance can people form with the widespread application of intelligent technology in the field of government affairs?
(3) Smart people's well-being: Smart Society and High-quality Life
A livable smart city pays more attention to the well-being of citizens, which is the foundation of urban development. Nowadays, informatization has made transportation, consumption, and other daily activities much more convenient. At the same time, in order to promote an ecologically livable city and improve people's happiness and satisfaction, what are the current ways of building a smart connect society? About smart ecology, how to optimize the ecological environment construction from the aspects of garbage classification, greening arrangement, and pollution control? About smart transportation, how to solve the problem of traffic congestion to satisfy the increasing needs of users? What’s more, how to make these technologies serve more people? Are there any other projects that can foster people’s well-being in the smart city?
