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China Matters explores the promise of smart cities in Guiyang
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Why smart
cities? From all perspectives, it ticks all the boxes: innovation, technology
and new economy. On a day-to-day basis, it makes our urban environments more
liveable, it saves energy, keeps traffic flowing and keeps us safe.
In 2020, China
was estimated to have some 800 smart cities under construction or in planning –
that’s about half of the world’s total. And that number is continually rising.
And key to
powering these smart cities is technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence
and big data. Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou province, has been a hotbed
for experimenting with digital transformation in the country’s push towards
building smart cities, thus a smart society.
Smart cities are an integral part of China’s continued push for
urbanization to drive the country’s economic development now and in the years
to come.
More than 5,000
big data companies take residence in Guiyang including Alibaba, Baidu, Apple
and Google, to name a few. That’s because, for years, Guizhou has been home to
the country’s first national big data experimental zone. And now it has opened
the floodgates for a shift from a smart-city concept to a smart-city reality.
China Matters’
Josh Arslan goes to Guiyang to see what ordinary folks can get out of living in
a smart city? What benefits it brings? He also meets up with people behind the
innovations that power a smart city from facial recognition to a car parking
app vital in congested cities to autonomous vehicles, redefining the way we
live, work and play.
Contact:
Li Siwei
Tel:008610-68996566
E-mail：lisiwei5125@gmail.com
YouTube
Link: https://youtu.be/JP7_ylRLRME
