Chongqing’s Smart City “Intelligent Hub” Has Been Completed and Put into Operation, with 42 City-Wide Systems Now Connected

　　On August 20, the inauguration ceremony was held for the completion and commissioning of the Chongqing Municipal New Smart City Operation and Management Center. As a foundational, hub-based, and integrated project for Chongqing’s new smart city development, the center is slated to connect 120 systems within this year, thereby realizing “unified management through a single network,” “one-stop online services,” “networked dispatch,” and “networked governance.” This will effectively bolster Chongqing’s smart city initiative.

　　Chongqing’s “Smart City” Now Has a “Smart Hub”

　　A relevant official from the Chongqing Municipal Big Data Development Bureau stated that the Chongqing New-Generation Smart City Operation and Management Center (hereinafter referred to as the “Operation and Management Center”) is a foundational, hub-based, and integrated project for Chongqing’s new-generation smart city development. It serves as both the “intelligent core” of the smart city and the central platform for implementing the “Cloud Chief System,” with specific functions organized around “three centers and one platform.”

　　The Data Resource Center focuses on “aggregation and shared utilization,” efficiently consolidating diverse government data resources and deeply unlocking their value. The Monitoring and Early-Warning Center leverages efficient management of business systems and in-depth data correlation analysis to achieve situational awareness, monitoring and analysis, and predictive early warning for urban operations. The Dispatch and Command Center establishes a collaborative command-and-dispatch coordination model to facilitate daily operational oversight and scheduling, emergency response coordination for urban emergencies, and cross-level, cross-departmental, and cross-business application scenario dispatch and command. The “One Platform” refers to an integrated empowerment platform that provides common technical support, business collaboration, integrated applications, and secure operation services to underpin all “three integrations and five cross-domain” applications.

　　All 42 systems across the city have been integrated into the “Intelligent Hub.”

　　Yan Zhiqiang, Party Secretary and General Manager of Digital Chongqing Co., Ltd., stated that construction of the Operations Management Center commenced in March of this year. The center is slated to integrate 120 systems by the end of the year; to date, it has successfully connected 42 systems from 21 departments, districts, and county-level units, including the General Office of the Municipal People’s Government, the Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau, the Municipal Health Commission, and the Municipal Urban Management Bureau, representing 35% of the planned integration. These systems span various application areas, such as online management, online services, new online business models, and initiatives focused on addressing key public concerns through targeted, small-scale interventions.

　　Meanwhile, in response to the needs of people’s livelihood services, urban governance, government administration, industrial integration, and eco-friendly, livable development, the first batch of 17 application scenarios has been developed, including YuKuaiBan, ecological environment, health and wellness, targeted poverty alleviation, the China-Singapore International Interconnection Data Dedicated Channel, large-scale 5G network deployment, public security intelligence, urban transportation, YuKuaiRong, the YuKang Code, smart meteorology, and video dispatch.

　　“These scenarios are all designed to address the public’s most pressing and critical needs, and they have already played a significant role,” said a spokesperson for the Chongqing Municipal Big Data Development Bureau. Currently, the number of electronic certificates and licenses available on the YuKuaiBan government service platform has expanded from four categories to 12, with over 12 million registered users; the YuKuaiRong platform has surpassed 220,000 registered users, facilitating more than RMB 19.3 billion in financing; and initiatives such as YuKuaiXing, the intelligent grid-based co-governance platform for community governance, and smart parking continue to be advanced. In addition, the big data platform for targeted poverty alleviation has been completed and put into operation, serving over 270,000 users with more than 35.2 million interactions, and achieving a daily active user base of 50,000 on its mobile app. Concurrently, in the course of building a new-generation smart city, Chongqing is advancing the construction of a “Four Skies” smart meteorological system—comprising TianShu for intelligent detection, TianZi for intelligent forecasting, ZhiTian for smart services, and YuTian for smart disaster prevention—which has played a vital role in providing services during 11 heavy rainfall events and passing flood waves since the onset of this year’s main flood season.

　　Chongqing’s cloud adoption rate reaches 85.7%, ranking among the highest in the country.

　　Yang Fan, Deputy Director of the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Big Data Development, stated that since the comprehensive implementation of the “Cloud Chief System” in July 2019, the work of “managing clouds, managing data, and ensuring effective utilization” has been steadily advanced with solid results. To date, the Digital Chongqing Cloud Platform has been preliminarily established, forming a cloud service system under which all government information systems are hosted on a single unified cloud infrastructure. A total of 1,942 information systems have been migrated to the cloud, raising the cloud adoption rate from 27.8% in 2018 to 85.7% last year—placing Chongqing among the national leaders. All 76 municipal departments (including 70 with shared responsibility), as well as the 38 districts and counties, the Liangjiang New Area, and the Wansheng Economic and Technological Development Zone, have now fully integrated into the city’s data-sharing platform, making Chongqing the first in the country to establish a three-tier data-sharing framework spanning the national, municipal, and district/county levels. The city has implemented a “three-list” management system comprising a catalog list, a demand list, and a responsibility list, completed the centralized storage of data resource pools across 31 departments, aggregated 1,929 categories of data resources, and achieved a centralized storage rate of 58.30%. As of the end of July 2020, the city’s cumulative data access volume had exceeded 8.67 billion records, representing a 147.7% increase over the 3.5 billion records accessed cumulatively in 2018—a level that ranks among the upper-middle tier nationwide.

　　To further accelerate Chongqing’s smart city development, Yang Fan stated that the next step will be for the Operations and Management Center to fully leverage its dispatch and command functions, expedite the refinement of the “management–cloud–data–application” institutional framework, and establish a comprehensive support system encompassing data, platforms, and capabilities. The Center will make every effort to ensure that all systems that should be migrated to the cloud are indeed migrated, all systems that should be integrated are fully integrated, all systems that should be connected are fully connected, all data that should be aggregated is fully aggregated, and all capabilities that should be shared are fully shared. In this way, the Operations and Management Center will be transformed into the city-wide command and dispatch hub for the “Cloud Chief” system and for the construction of a new type of smart city, thereby achieving end-to-end digital governance of urban operations, one-stop online delivery of government services, unified online coordination of emergency management, and integrated online governance at the grassroots level.

　　Source: Zhi Tianxia Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Platform

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