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Yangpu unveils digital zone plans

A DEMONSTRATION zone for Shanghai’s digital transformation strategy has been planned in the city’s northern downtown area, which will feature smart transportation and urban management as well as intelligent technologies like artificial intelligence and 5G.

The pilot zones are being developed along the Huangpu River waterfront, once the cradle of China’s modern industries, the Changyang Belt, the city’s major online new economy ecological park, and the Wujiaochang subcenter in Yangpu District.

The leading region of the online new economy sector released its blueprint to make digital transformation its chief economic and social priority by 2025, and drive the strategy across Yangpu by 2023.

“The ultimate purpose is not digital transformation but to improve the living standards of citizens via the strategy,” Xue Kan, director of Yangpu, told an urban digital transformation promotion conference yesterday.

Shanghai aims to become “the international digital capital with global influence” by 2035. It is boosting digital urban management with one-stop administrative online services and a smart urban management system that has been promoted across districts and subdistricts and towns.

Yangpu has been promoting a number of pilot applications to create smart communities and innovation parks. High-tension substations are controlled by AI, as well as the level of waterways, fire prevention and security systems.

Many applications based on the 5G network that fully covers Yangpu will be initially launched at the Wujiaochang commercial hub.

The district’s 782 bus stops have been equipped with electronic bus signs to indicate when the next bus will arrive. Parking garages have been integrated into a smart parking information platform.

A smart parking guidance system has been under trial in the Kongjiang Community and the southern part of the Yangpu waterfront.

The city’s first smart charging station for new-energy vehicles was launched at the Changyang Campus, an innovation park transformed from an old cotton mill with many AI and robotic technologies.

The boom in the online economy during the coronavirus pandemic has brought more opportunities for tech firms and new online businesses.

New infrastructure, such as 5G base stations and charging stations for electric cars, are expected to help restore the economy after the pandemic as well as drive future economic development, according to the Yangpu government.

“Yangpu aims to support and develop at least 10 leading online new economy companies and more than 1,000 innovative tech firms with total industrial scale of over 150 billion yuan,” according to the district government.

Yangpu has gathered many leading firms in the online new economy sector, such as Bilibili, Xiaohongshu, Ucloud and Liulishuo.

By the end of 2020, the service industry featuring enterprises with revenue of above 20 million yuan (US$3.06 million) reached 111.4 billion yuan.




 

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