Smart Cities is an important aspect of IBM's "Smarter Planet" strategy. The "Smart Planet" proposes to change the way people interact with each other through a new generation of information technology in a smarter way, to improve real-time information processing capabilities and sensing and response speed, to enhance business resilience and continuity, and to promote the comprehensive and harmonious development of all social endeavors. The "Smart City" initiative is becoming a real-life initiative to bring the "Smart Planet" from concept to reality in China. In the accelerating process of China's economic and urbanization development, "Smart City" aims to create an information sample with Chinese characteristics and explore the future direction of China's urban development. This Kunshan - Kunshan CCTS - IBM cooperation project also reflects the cooperation between IBM and software developers and other social forces, IBM's "smart city" innovative concepts, advanced technological means and systematic solutions, and the Kunshan Municipal Government's city informatization master plan of a high degree of compatibility with the three-party cooperation possible.
Niu Wenyuan said, the World Bank estimates that a million people above the completion of the smart city, under the condition of the same investment, the implementation of a full range of information management will be able to increase the city's development dividend 2.5 to 3 times, which means that the smart city can promote the realization of about 4 times the sustainable development goals, and to lead the way for the future direction of the world's urban development.
State Council's guiding opinions on promoting orderly and healthy development of Internet of Things
The State Council's guiding opinions on promoting orderly and healthy development of Internet of Things were released, which elaborated on the importance of the development of Internet of Things, and put forward the "guiding ideology", "basic principles" and "development". The opinion describes the importance of the development of the Internet of Things, puts forward the "guiding ideology", "basic principles" and "development goals", and specifies nine "basic tasks" and six "safeguard measures". The release of the guidance for the development of China's Internet of Things has played a positive role in promoting.
From 2011 "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" after the publication of the relevant areas related to people's livelihoods of the Internet of Things industry has indeed appeared relatively rapid development, such as some of the intelligent security and intelligent transportation companies grow very fast. For the entire Internet of Things, the future around the construction of the entire smart city, these subsectors are still facing a relatively good impetus. Yang Xueshan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, believes that China's "smart city" construction is currently facing four major challenges: first, the challenge of information technology. The second is the challenge of capacity enhancement. Thirdly, the understanding, habit and system need to be adapted to the application of smart city. Fourth, the legal environment needs to be adjusted.