Guide: Smart cities improve resource utilization efficiency and residents’ quality of life. As an industry closely related to the smart city sector, what are the recent new developments in the industrial and information technology field? Let’s take a look!
As an industry closely related to the smart city sector, what are the recent new trends in the industrial and information technology field and the dynamics of urban development? The editor has sorted them out in this article, let’s take a look!
Chongqing: 2025 World Intelligent Vehicle Conference opens in Chongqing
The 2025 World Intelligent Vehicle Conference, with the theme of “Intelligent Connection of Vehicles, Roads and Clouds · Gathering Momentum for Dual Circulation”, focuses on the technological innovation of vehicle-road-cloud integration and the in-depth advancement of the dual circulation strategy. Academicians, scholars, enterprise leaders and policymakers from nearly 20 countries were invited to deconstruct technical routes and industrial trends from a forward-looking perspective. More than 100 leading enterprises, covering chip perception, algorithm decision-making, scenario application, capital empowerment and cross-border cooperation, jointly drew an ecological map.
Henan: Issued “Henan Province Implementation Plan for Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting Urban-wide Digital Transformation (2025-2027)”
The “Henan Province Implementation Plan for Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting Urban-wide Digital Transformation (2025-2027)” proposes that by 2027, a comprehensive system for promoting urban-wide digital transformation will be basically established. The supporting capacity of urban digital infrastructure in the province will be comprehensively enhanced, the level of digital governance will be significantly improved, the driving force of digital economy development will be fully released, and the reform of market-oriented allocation of data elements will be continuously deepened. A number of typical application scenarios and solutions with remarkable effects and replicable promotion value will be cultivated, a number of digital-adaptive system innovation achievements with Henan characteristics will be formed, 3-5 first-class domestic benchmarks for comprehensive and characteristic urban-wide digital transformation will be built, and the modern governance level of megacities will reach an internationally leading level.
Hubei: Promote the construction of Wuhan Science and Technology Financial Center and boldly advance science and technology financial reform
According to the website of the People’s Government of Hubei Province on July 29, on July 28, Li Dianxun, Deputy Secretary of the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Governor, presided over an executive meeting of the provincial government. The meeting stated that it is necessary to follow the laws of modern finance and scientific and technological innovation, give full play to Hubei’s advantages in transportation location, science and education resources, industrial foundation and financial market, accurately grasp the target positioning of “based in Hubei, relying on Wuhan, radiating central China, facing the whole country, and linking overseas”, promote the construction of Wuhan Science and Technology Financial Center at a high level and with great efforts, more effectively gather financial institutions, capital, talents and other resource elements at home and abroad, boldly advance science and technology financial reform, continuously optimize the science and technology financial ecology, and effectively radiate and drive innovation and development in a wider area. Based on the three financial function orientations of local governments, namely “equity investment for guidance, debt financing for credit enhancement, and public fundraising in the capital market for cultivation”, efforts should be made to reshape science and technology financial policies, actively carry out pilot projects of science and technology financial reform, systematically reconstruct the equity investment guidance system, debt financing credit enhancement system and multi-level capital market fundraising and cultivation system, so as to provide more powerful and effective financial support for the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Zhejiang: By 2027, newly listed enterprises in the science and technology field will account for more than 80% of the total number of newly listed enterprises
The “Several Measures of Zhejiang Province on Empowering the Construction of Innovative Zhejiang with Science and Technology Finance and Developing New Productive Forces in Light of Local Conditions (Draft for Comments)” is open for public comments. It mentions supporting the listing and mergers and acquisitions of technology-based enterprises. Accelerate the listing of technology enterprises, with a focus on supporting technology-based enterprises that undertake national and provincial major scientific and technological tasks and break through key core technologies to list for financing. Around the entire chain of enterprise listing and development, multi-dimensional empowerment will be carried out from echelon cultivation, atmosphere building, value enhancement, supporting services, expert guidance, etc. By 2027, newly listed enterprises in the science and technology field will account for more than 80% of the total number of newly listed enterprises. Encourage government investment funds to cooperate with listed companies and leading technology enterprises to set up M&A funds, and increase support for mergers and acquisitions of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises. Actively strive for the pilot of M&A loans for technology enterprises, increasing the proportion of loans to 80% of the M&A transaction price and extending the loan term to 10 years.
Shanghai: Support technological innovation in key frontier areas such as new-generation general artificial intelligence, intelligent chips, and embodied intelligence, with a maximum support of 50 million yuan
The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization released the “Several Measures of Shanghai on Further Expanding the Application of Artificial Intelligence” on the 28th. It proposes to carry out key technological innovation. Support technological innovation in key frontier areas such as basic theories, methods and tools of artificial intelligence, new-generation general artificial intelligence, intelligent chips, embodied intelligence, intelligent software, brain-computer interfaces, and intelligent computing systems. A maximum of 30% of the approved total project investment, with a ceiling of 50 million yuan, will be provided as support. Support various innovation entities to participate in national major projects, strategic platforms, “unveiling and taking command” tasks, etc., and apply for municipal supporting projects, with a maximum support of 50 million yuan. For key projects with strategic and public welfare nature, after approval by the municipal government, a maximum of 50% support can be given.
Jiangsu: Nanjing officially announces “building a national highland for the brain-computer interface industry”
According to the “Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily” on the 23rd, Nanjing held a conference on cultivating the brain-computer interface industry and released the “Nanjing Action Plan for Promoting Innovation and Breakthroughs in the Brain-Computer Interface Industry (2025-2030) (Draft for Comments)”. The “Action Plan” clearly states that it will become a highland for scientific research and transformation in the field of brain-computer interfaces by 2027, and a national innovation highland for the brain-computer interface industry by 2030. Some research institutions predict that the market size of China’s brain-computer interface industry is expected to exceed 120 billion yuan by 2040.
Guangxi: Build a new highland for AI-enabled cross-border e-commerce development facing ASEAN
On July 28, the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region introduced that from January to June 2025, Guangxi’s cross-border e-commerce import and export volume exceeded 25 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of over 140%. Among them, Guangxi’s cross-border e-commerce import and export to ASEAN countries accounted for nearly 70% of the total cross-border e-commerce trade volume.
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