smart cities - global case studies - part - 4

Global Case Studies

Part 4

Smart Cities: Smarter Solutions for better tomorrow

Case Study 1: Beijing Haidian District

City OverviewBeijing, as the capital and political and cultural center of China, is a world famous ancient city and modern cosmopolis. Standing in the northwest of Beijing, Haidian District is important and famous for its science and technology, culture, education and tourism. It, consists of 22 sub -districts and 11 townships, has a total area of 426 square kilometers and a resident population of 1.5 million.


Objectives of smart city development programSmart Haidian aims to build smart administration, smart parks, smart urban areas, smart homes, and IT industry leadership

Strategic plan for smart city developmentA dedicated plan including Smart Haidian Top -level Design, Smart Haidian Development Program, and Smart Haidian Construction Program was developed for the purpose. The plan included construction of a network and cloud infrastructure and an intelligence application system.


Smart administration- An information based system was implemented which interlinked districts and communities through a common website / portal for seeking government services. The new system improved service quality and brought more transparency in government affairs.

Smart city management: Developed and implemented a social management service system which tracked and assessed social situations and public opinions in a timely manner so as to improve city management and enable faster handling of situations.


Key Focus areas under the smart city development programSmart parks: Built smart parks / platforms to support the development of enterprises, especially SMEs. Smart parks provide professional services in credit financing, innovative marketing, corporate management, and intellectual property rights etc. and promote the development of SMEs.

Smart education initiative was taken to improve the education network in Haidian district. A cloud resource center has been built and a two level (district and schools) digital education management system has been established to combine information technology with teaching in the district.


Smart sanitation: Built a regional sanitation information system and data center. This platform helped in sharing and exchange of sanitation information and resources in the region.


GovernanceSmart Haidian program was started under the full responsibility of Haidian District Government. For the execution of program, a work leading group led by district governor and deputy district governors with leaders of district bureaus, industry experts and other stakeholders was formed. FundingThe funds for smart city development are allocated by the district government. The district government also set up a construction Fund for this purpose. Haidian invested about 300 million Yuan annually in 2011 and 2012 and 500 million Yuan in 2013. In addition, Haidian mobilizes social capital by using service leasing, Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) and other ways.


Business Models leveragedHaidian adopted a variety of models including Build, Operate and Transfer (BT) and Build, Own and Operate (BO) in basic network and data center construction.

OutcomeHaidian District achieved government data exchange, business collaboration and resource sharing by building an intelligence application system in government administration, urban management, parks, education and health, and thereby significantly improved urban management, fast processing capabilities etc.

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Case Study 2: Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation Zone of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, ChinaCity OverviewQianhai Cooperation Zone is located to the west of Shekou Peninsula in the west of Shenzhen City, covering an area of 14.92 square kilometers and a population of 300,000. Qianhai District enjoys sound industry foundation and favorable policy environment. The district mainly focuses on big industries such as finance, modern logistics, information service, scientific service and other professional services.

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Objectives of smart city development program The smart city program aims to build smart infrastructure, smart administration, smart city management, transportation, finance, water town, logistics, security, industry, community, building, medical care and education.Strategic plan for smart city developmentA comprehensive plan comprising of a master plan, overall design, action plan and roadmap and a detailed evaluation system was developed.Key Focus areas under the smart city development programSmart water city – Implementing a plan to leverage technology to provide scientific analysis to ensure safety of water resources and water environment.

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Smart safety – Implementing an information security guarantee system by leveraging IT applications in firewall, safety management, cloud virtualization and intelligent picture processing technologies. Also, set up an information platform aimed to enhance public security. Smart transportation –Leveraging IT and big data analytics to build an advanced navigation and positioning system, innovative parking resource system. Smart communities – Building an IT platform to offer integrated community services such as smart medical care, smart building and urban emergency services.

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Smart medical care –Leveraging technology to develop a health planning and management system, public health service and disease prevention information system, epidemic release monitoring system and an emergency command system.GovernanceQianhai Administration of Shenzhen city has set up a Smart Qianhai working group, with its Smart Qianhai office responsible for the development strategies, plans and policies and overall management of the project. In addition to this, a Smart Qianhai Expert Group comprising of relevant experts has also been set up, for providing macro level direction and guidance to the program.

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FundingQianhai smart city program has three funding channels: (1) Special funds established by the government; (2) private capital attracted from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, foreign funds attracted by the government via the injection of capital, subsidized loan, financing guarantee and service outsourcing subsidization; (3) cross-border loans and financing in Hong Kong through land sale and government bonds.Business Models leveragedMultiple business models were leveraged including- Build Operate Manage (BOM) and Build Operate Transfer (BOT)

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OutcomeSmart Qianhai has formulated 11 special applications such as smart water applications, smart education with smart sensory interaction, smart buildings with centralized monitoring over building energy consumption, unified cold source arrangement and solar materials applications, smart medical care with personal health project management system, disease prevention information system, and epidemic announcement and surveillance system. Further, Qianhai set up a long-term standard evaluation system to fully understand the characteristics and influencing factors at different stages of Smart Qianhai development, including infrastructure, IT application and services and construction management, and to calculate and evaluate the results in urban management, administrative services, industrial development and emission reduction.

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