The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Yancheng pilot micro-city to explore the construction of smart cities

In order to promote the "micro city" pilot and "smart City" construction, recently, Yancheng Chengnan New District and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural China Urban Science Research Society and other departments officially signed a contract in Yancheng City. China's first "micro city" will be piloted in Yancheng, making it a development model to explore the construction of a smart city, according to experts from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.

Ye Jianming, head of the Chinese Urban Science Research Society of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said that after the launch of the first "micro city" pilot work in China, the National Smart City Industrial Technology Innovation Alliance, the smart City Innovation Joint Laboratory and domestic experts in various related industries and fields will actively participate in it, and make the "micro city" pilot in the South New District into a "domestic leading and world-renowned" development model. "Micro city" is a new concept produced in the current urban development process, with the continuous development of new generation technologies such as the Internet of things and cloud computing, smart micro city will become a new urban form, representing the future development direction of the city. Early last year, Chengnan New Area was approved as the first batch of "National smart City" pilot urban areas. Since then, the South of the city New Area quickly integrated resources, concentrated superior forces, compiled the smart city south planning and design scheme, and started the construction of a number of key projects such as smart community, smart government affairs, and Julong Lake green Building Demonstration Zone. At the beginning of this year, the Urban Science Research Society of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development preliminarily determined the pilot of "micro-city" around the Jurong Lake, came to research and investigation several times, and finally chose Yancheng Financial City to try first, with finance as the theme, focusing on the construction of micro-city complex, and establishing the benchmark of smart city application projects.