Changsha case stood out from 126 outstanding cases from 44 cities and won the City Award of the 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress (SCEWC) on the awarding ceremony for Chinese winners of the World Smart City Award held on November 16.

The 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress was held in Chengdu from November 15 to 16. With the theme of “Cities Inspired by People”, the congress was held simultaneously in Barcelona and Chengdu in online and offline ways. Over 600 cities from more than 80 countries were connected online to discuss the new future of smart city development.

At present, through building a well-coordinated top-level architecture system, an intensive and sharing basic support system, a people-oriented intelligent application system and a data-based industrial ecological system, Changsha has achieved phased results in smart city construction.

For example, the Changsha government took the lead in issuing the Top-level Design of New Smart City for the 14^th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) Period, specifying the city’s smart city construction goals, structures and processes.

The “Changsha Government Affairs Cloud” provides efficient, safe and reliable cloud services for 78 units and 422 systems across the city.

The “Internet plus government services” platform has provided nearly 3,000 high-demand government services on an inter-provincial basis.

In recent years, Changsha has taken the construction of a smart city as an important carrier to improve the city’s energy level and core competitiveness. It has built an integrated top-level architecture system, basic support system, smart application system, data governance system and industrial ecosystem, striving to create a national model and benchmark of a new smart city, so as to enable high-quality development, high-efficient governance, and high-quality life.

Now, various innovative applications like “wisdom plus” and “digital plus” have settled in Changsha, demonstrating the powerful influence and creativity of the digital life.