KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 (Bernama) -- China’s Hangzhou has planned a creative and courageous action plan to make the city as the ‘First City of China's Digital Economy’ in five years according to the Information Office of Hangzhou Municipal People's Government.
Hangzhou mayor, Zhou Jiangyong in a statement said by 2022, the Hangzhou digital economy development system will basically take shape.
The city will be built into an international first-class source with China's digital economy ideas and technologies, gathering place for enterprises and talents, leading place for the development of digital industrialization and demonstration place for industrial digitization reform.
Existing statistics shows that the added value of digital economy in Hangzhou accounts for more than 1/4 of the city's total economic output and contributes more than 1/2 to the city's economic growth, showing the idea to build the first city in the national digital economy process is real.
Hangzhou has been a tourist city famous for its culture and scenery since ancient times and honored as ‘Paradise on Earth’. Today, Hangzhou has a new vitality in China's economic geography because of the charm and potential have shown while developing digital economy.
Driven by digital economy, the city has formed advantageous industries such as information software, E-commerce, cloud computing big data and digital content, with more than 20 leading enterprises such as Alibaba, NetEase and Hikvision emerging prominently.
Hangzhou is striving to become the leading city in China's digital economy development. Hangzhou aims to build several industrial centers with international influence in E-commerce, cloud computing and big data, artificial intelligence, digital content and others fields by 2022.
It is the first city in China to provide services such as buy tea eggs, take subway paid by mobile phone. People also can also withdraw provident fund by using face recognition technology as a total of 153 matters can be handled on a mobile phone.
The city has also taken the lead in setting up the government administration department of ‘big data’, which responds to the urban government service process in seconds. At present, nearly 40 billion pieces of data have been collected from 59 departments all over the city.
At the Yunqi Cloud Town Computing Conference in September, Hangzhou government with companies such as Alibaba has released Hangzhou ‘City Brain’ 2.0 which has continuously improved the traffic efficiency in Hangzhou.
‘City Brain’ 2.0 has also been applied in many aspects including fire fighting, cityscape management and tourism traffic. It aimed to allow the data to help cities with thinking and decision-making and to build Hangzhou into a smart city to interact positively with citizens.
Hangzhou should wake up sleeping numbers by using modern technology for infrastructure transformation, people's livelihood services and government services as to make Hangzhou a solution-output city with world-class digital management system.
-- BERNAMA
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