The office of the Beijing high-level autonomous driving demonstration area launched a road test of unmanned police patrol cars on Tuesday, the first of its kind in China.
Fifteen self-driving patrol cars, complete with flashing lights, hit the public roads in the autonomous driving demonstration area, performing round-the-clock police duties in coordination with officers from the Daxing Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
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A discussion about Shanghai's digital transformation has been opened at Shanghai Tower.
Shanghai has outlined its ambition of becoming an international capital for digitalization by 2035, with digital technologies more extensively integrated into urban management.
For instance, Shanghai Chengtou Group Corporation, a major state-owned infrastructure company, has built water quality alert systems at Shanghai's three major water sources, a real-time monitoring system at China's tallest building of Shanghai Tower, and the city's first "intelligent highway" which has helped to reduce accident rates by 12 percent, according to Tong Hongwei, a vice general manager from the company's information department.
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In today’s 2023 Policy Address, Chief Executive John Lee set out 73 new indicators which he said the Government will use to improve governance. Combined with ongoing indicators introduced in last year’s Policy Address, this takes the number of active indicators of the Government’s work progress and outcomes to 150.
Mr Lee said that since taking office the current-term Government has strived to improve governance systems, capabilities, efficacy and execution. After setting out 110 indicators for specific tasks last year, he said the performance of departments had generally met his expectations and had helped to cultivate a result-oriented culture within the Government.
Sidewalk Toronto. Masdar City. Songdo. There have been so many smart cities that have been scrapped or have failed to live up to their expectations. Making a viable city, smart or not, has proven to be much harder than planners expect. But that doesn’t stop them from trying. There are several large smart city projects underway right now, including Neom in Saudi Arabia, Telosa in the U.S., and “The Woven City” in Japan.
These cities are all being built in remote regions, where land is cheap, and municipal governments are easy to persuade. This might prove to be their undoing. Cities generally grow organically thanks to their geography, so getting people to move to the middle of nowhere for the promise of better infrastructure is usually not enough.
Read more: Has a Chinese Tech Company Cracked the Smart City Code?
Global artists will collaborate on a painting of Shanghai's oldest iron and steel mill in Baoshan to mark its transformation into a smart city.
The Baoshan government initiated the campaign for the former No. 1 Shanghai Steel Factory to be reestablished as the Wusong campus of the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts of Shanghai University.