Huawei: 5G+AI opens a new era of smart city twins

On November 15, the "Huawei Smart City Summit 2019" was held in Shenzhen under the guidance of the National Information Center and Shenzhen Municipal Government Service Data Management Bureau. More than 700 smart city builders, participants and industry experts from all over the country participated in the summit to discuss smart city industry insights, technologies, solutions and construction experience. Zhou Min, deputy director of the National Information Center, Wang Lixin, deputy mayor of Shenzhen, Yang Xueshan, adjunct professor of Peking University, and Yang Ruikai, vice president of Huawei, president of Digital Government, and president of Government and Enterprise Cloud, attended and delivered speeches.

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Zhou Min, Deputy Director of the National Information Center

Blockchain provides a new solution to the problems of cross-department information sharing, cross-domain business integration, cross-city collaborative development, and cross-industry integrity constraints in the construction of new smart cities. Zhou Min, deputy director of the National Information Center, suggested: First, improve the data sharing chain, give full play to the characteristics of blockchain technology rules that are transparent, encrypted, tamper-proof, and easy to trace, and improve the level of intelligent and precise urban management; second, optimize the industrial ecological chain, eliminate unnecessary rent-seeking intermediaries in the production and living fields through the decentralized value network of blockchain, and promote the free flow of various production factors in various industrial fields and cities; third, innovate the people's livelihood service chain, and actively promote the application of blockchain technology in education, employment, elderly care, targeted poverty alleviation, medical health, commodity anti-counterfeiting, food safety, public welfare, social assistance and other fields; fourth, open up the technology innovation chain, promote the deep integration of blockchain and the real economy, and explore the innovation of digital economic models; fifth, strengthen the security supervision chain, guide and promote blockchain developers and platform operators to strengthen industry self-discipline, implement safety responsibilities, and promote the safe and orderly application of blockchain in the construction of new smart cities.

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Wang Lixin, Vice Mayor of Shenzhen

Shenzhen is one of the first batch of new smart city pilot cities in the country, and actively promotes the demonstration application and organic integration of modern information technology in smart cities. Shenzhen Vice Mayor Wang Lixin said that by carrying out the "second approval" reform, some government services can be approved automatically without running errands, queuing, or meeting, so that citizens can get things done more quickly; by promoting the application of non-contact payment in the transportation field and scanning codes at subway stations to take the bus, citizens can travel more conveniently; by building an electronic health card management platform, medical and health institutions can be connected through one network, and one code can be used for medical treatment; by carrying out food safety traceability construction, citizens can eat more assured. He mentioned that the new concept of 5G+AI smart city released by Huawei coincides with the "Action Plan for the Development of New Generation Artificial Intelligence" and "Several Measures on Taking the Lead in Achieving Full Coverage of 5G Infrastructure and Promoting High-Quality Development of 5G Industry" issued by Shenzhen this year. Shenzhen will take the lead in achieving full coverage and independent networking of 5G networks by the end of August 2020, laying a solid foundation for the construction of smart cities; by then, Shenzhen will become the world's first city with full coverage of 5G infrastructure.

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Yang Ruikai, Vice President of Huawei, President of Digital Government, and President of Government and Enterprise Cloud

Smart city is a business direction that Huawei has invested in for a long time. With more than 1,100 solution partners, it provides smart city services to more than 40 countries and more than 200 cities around the world. Yang Ruikai, Vice President of Huawei, President of Digital Government, and President of Government and Enterprise Cloud, said that the construction of new smart cities has become an important starting point for the development of urban digital economy. Smart city construction can help solve various problems in urban development, achieve efficient urban governance and serve the people, drive the development of urban digital industries, and bring new momentum to the upgrading and development of traditional industries. In future business development, digital twins will be a new stage in the development of smart cities, and a means and a good starting point for achieving accurate and efficient governance, management and services for a city. Looking to the future, Huawei will rely on its accumulation in 5G, AI and smart city operations, and work with ecological partners to promote cities into the era of digital twins. New technologies bring new experiences, and new technologies give people a greater sense of gain. In the future, comprehensive urban governance and services for the people will also enter a truly intelligent era.

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Yang Xueshan, adjunct professor at Peking University

Yang Xueshan, an adjunct professor at Peking University, proposed new thinking related to the innovation chain and ecological chain. From process innovation, institutional innovation, model innovation to product innovation, technological innovation, infrastructure innovation, and even cultural and habitual innovation, they constitute the innovation chain of smart city development. The behaviors of the government and the market, finance and industry, and the various participants in the smart city constitute the ecological chain of the smart city. The development of smart cities must be guided by the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities, so that urban management can be refined and precise, public services can be fair, reasonable, high-quality and efficient, and economic development can be transformed to provide more services for the people and ensure the quality of life of the people. The realization of these requires innovation in technology, industry, infrastructure, platform, process, system, law, and personal behavior, so that all stakeholders can form a joint ecological chain towards a common goal.

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Shan Zhiguang, Director of the Information Technology and Industrial Development Department of the National Information Center

Shan Zhiguang, director of the Information Technology and Industrial Development Department of the National Information Center, brought his thoughts on the path of promoting the transformation of future smart cities: To promote the deepening development of smart cities, we must do a good job in the transformation of urban technology applications, business models, service effects, governance methods, industrial economy, system characteristics, system capabilities, system structure, design principles, carrier characteristics, technology implementation routes, construction and operation models, etc. Specifically, smart cities should shift from traditional isolated and decentralized applications to integrated and integrated applications; from supply-side-dominated business models to people-centered; the services provided by smart cities should shift from doing their best to meticulous; governance methods should shift from extensive to precise, forming a new governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, sharing, and integration; from a steady-state system of doing their own thing, each doing their own thing, and being responsible for their own territory, to a full-time, full-response, full-mode, flexible and agile system that affects the whole body. He emphasized that the construction of smart cities is a long-term project, and it is necessary to find a fundamental and endogenous mechanism for the long-term operation of smart cities.

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Hu Fang, President of Huawei EBG China Smart City Business

With the advent of the 5G era, the interconnection of all things has become a reality. The accelerated development of AI has achieved a deep integration of virtual and real life, and smart cities have entered a new era of twins. Hu Fang, President of Huawei EBG China Smart City Business, said that Huawei empowers the new era of twins at multiple levels by providing new connections, new intelligence, new experiences, and creating new value: "New connections" include full-domain perception and full connectivity, and realize the "digital twins" of cities through technologies such as the Internet of Things, 5G, AI, and BIM; based on the city digital platform, give the city "new intelligence"; and based on the open capabilities provided by the city digital platform, work with ecological partners to jointly develop application solutions that meet the needs of urban business applications and meet the business needs of urban service objects; ultimately, the integration of urban digital twins will reshape urban planning, management, collaboration, and development.

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Chen Chaoxiang, Deputy Inspector of Shenzhen Municipal Government Service Data Management Bureau

After continuous exploration and reform and innovation, Shenzhen's information society index and smart city development have reached the leading level in China. Chen Chaoxiang, deputy inspector of the Shenzhen Municipal Government Service Data Management Bureau, said that through the government service APP, one account can handle all services and open functions such as face recognition. The APP has launched more than 4,200 service items; 300 high-frequency items can be handled across regions in the city, realizing "enterprises can do business without leaving the district and citizens can do business without leaving the street"; the city's "1+12+N" integrated operation system has been built - 1 digital government operation command center + 12 regional operation command centers + N commission and bureau command centers, realizing the linkage between the city's command centers; Shenzhen traffic police use big data platforms to form a "traffic brain" and create a comprehensive and integrated smart transportation service system; at the end of 2018, Shenzhen's annual accident death rate per 10,000 vehicles was about 0.9, becoming a large and medium-sized city in China with an annual road traffic accident death rate of less than 1 per 10,000 vehicles. The traffic police jointly innovated to improve Shenzhen's road traffic rate by 8%, basically reaching the road traffic safety level of advanced cities in the world.

Wang Yan, Director of the Shenzhen Guangming District Government Service Data Management Bureau

Wang Yan, director of the Government Service Data Management Bureau of Guangming District, Shenzhen, mentioned that the "Smart Guangming" project launched in 2018 pioneered the "project management technical service + design, supervision pre-selection library + information project general contracting + infrastructure implementation" construction model in the city and has achieved initial results: the "i Shenzhen" Guangming sub-portal has opened 51 services in six categories, including online reservations for government halls, venue reservations, and school district inquiries, realizing "one screen for smart life, one number to travel all over Guangming"; built surface water monitoring equipment for 14 main tributaries, and established a 24-hour, all-round real-time monitoring network for river pollution throughout the year, forming a picture of the ecological environment information of the entire district; took the lead in piloting the establishment of a three-level linkage command system of "city, district, and street", so that the emergency command and dispatch process in the entire district can be "visible", "communicable", and "adjustable"; innovatively established a grid-based social governance model, and established a service platform for people's demands; built "Internet + medical health" to meet residents' needs for self-service payment, medical guidance and navigation, health management and consultation, and online inquiry of test results; built a smart housing platform, and opened up public services such as online declaration, property management, and repair and maintenance.

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Wu Shedan, Director of Huawei EBG ICT Planning and Consulting Department

Smart cities require long-term strategic determination. Smart city full life cycle management starting from top-level planning is the key method to break through the smart city trap, and evaluation needs to be carried out throughout. Wu Shedan, director of Huawei's EBG ICT Planning and Consulting Department, released Huawei's Smart City Top-level Planning Consulting Methodology, CTIME Smart City Evaluation System, and Smart City Top-level Planning Methodology White Paper. He emphasized the importance of architecture. Through top-level planning, we can lay a solid foundation. A blueprint and a unified architecture are the key to breaking through the smart city trap. The principle of architecture design is to take business objects, namely citizens, enterprises, and governments, carry the value stream of urban governance, and derive the urban business capability framework, so that data can run more and people can run less. In terms of technical solution architecture, Huawei provides a "1+1+N" solution - by building a smart base and constructing a smart hub, N smart applications can be enabled. At present, Huawei's Smart City Top-level Planning Consulting Methodology has more than 100 successful practice cases around the world.

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Huawei Smart City Consulting and Planning Partners Deep Cooperation Release

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Huawei Smart City Business Application Partners Deep Cooperation Release

In recent years, Huawei and its partners have provided smart city consulting and planning services to more than 100 customers at home and abroad. In the next step, Huawei will carry out a series of in-depth cooperation with partners on consulting and planning methodology, basic research, industry research, high-end strategic research, etc., to help the healthy and orderly development of domestic smart cities. In the field of smart city business applications, Huawei has carried out joint solution docking, development, and verification with many outstanding partners in the industry, and jointly provided customers with excellent solutions in many fields such as IOC, government affairs, tourism, agriculture, education, and environmental protection. At this summit, Huawei and many partners jointly witnessed the release of "Huawei Smart City Consulting and Planning Partner Deep Cooperation" and "Huawei Smart City Business Application Partner Deep Cooperation".

Huawei Smart City Joint Solution Launch Ceremony

At the conference, Huawei jointly released eight joint solutions for all business areas of smart cities with Jiangsu Guotai New Point Software Co., Ltd., Taihua Smart Industry Group Co., Ltd., Beijing Digital Government Technology Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Xinwei Smart Security Technology Co., Ltd., Lide Space Information Technology Co., Ltd., and Nanjing Qingtian Technology Co., Ltd. The eight joint solutions released this time - involving smart government affairs, smart urban management, smart emergency response, smart water affairs, social governance, etc. - are all hard cores urgently needed in the new stage of smart city construction and based on the innovative characteristics of the new generation of information technology. They are the important crystallization of Huawei and its partners focusing on the "platform + ecology" strategy, and are committed to sharing the results of exploring smart city construction solutions and innovative practices.

With the rapid development of 5G, AI, blockchain, the Internet of Things, etc., smart city solutions based on the concept of digital twins will continue to integrate the advanced construction experience of smart cities and continuously iterate and optimize, promote the implementation of domestic "digital twin smart cities", and promote the sustainable development of modern cities.