1. iCity Development In China
Pan Yunhe
Chinese Academy of Engineering
Zürich Aug 31st,2012

2. Radpid Development of Smart Cities in China in recent years
“Smart Beijing” has been extensively launched, providing an intelligent living to all people in the capital city in next decade.
Beijing
Shanghai Government has announced the “ Action Plan” to promote the construction of the smart city.
Shanghai
In 2012, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other cities also put forward the ideas for the construction of their smart cities.
Other Cities
In 2010, Ningbo city authority developed the construction of an intelligent city by introducing the “Decision on the Construction of A Smart City”
Ningbo

3. But, in China A large difference between mayors and
IT companies: one mayor, after having
carefully listened to the introduction to
all “smart systems" in his visit to an
IT company, said rather disappointedly,
“Your smart city is lacking in the
vision of a mayor."

4. Realization of peculiarities in the content of Chinese city intelligentization
The nature of city intelligentization lies in the integration of informationization, urbanization and industrialization in the same time, and Chinese cities have embarked on a special path.
Developed countries
China
Informationization
Industrialization
Urbanization

5. Progresses and Challenges in China urbanization
China improved its urbanization rate by about 1.34% in recent 15 years.
　　1978: 17.92%
　　1996: 30.48%
　　2010：49.68% (from the result of the population census）
　　About 18 million urban population is annually increased in China.
In next 15 years, about 200 million will be migrated to cities. Thus, the huge urban construction work will continue.

6. What kind of cities will China construct?
The cities handed on from our preceding generation have almost been demolished. There must be certain shortsighted views or mistakes in urban construction.
　Question 1：Another painful demolition will be repeated 30 years later?
　Question 2：Will we have several cities that can receive the baptism of history, continue in the 22th century and become renowned ones after three hundred years? Like London, Paris, Chicago, Prague and Florence! That poses a challenge to the level of Chinese urbanization.

7. Intelligentized development of city industries
To have a good and fast economic development is the
special responsibility assumed by Chinese municipal
leaders
China has to rely on development to solve all conflicts. China's future development fundamentally depends on its city development. That is one of major concerns of Chinese mayors!

8. CAE decided to initiate a research project "the
Strategic Research on the Construction of
Intelligent Cities and Its Progress in China"
The research consists of 8 parts
Background and connotation of an intelligent city
Researches on intelligent cities at home and abroad and their status of development
Demand analysis on the construction of an intelligent city
Overall strategy for the construction and advancement of an intelligent city
key content in the construction of an intelligent city
Model for intelligent city construction
Standardization Strategy
Measures and suggestions

9. In order to distinguish from IBM's Smart City, fellows from Information and Electronic Engineering Academic Division, CAE proposed the term "Intelligent City" (iCity) for short.

10. 　Twelve key contents in the construction of an intelligent city specified by CAE
a) Urban economy, technology, culture, administration and planning
b) Organizational mode of urban spaces, intelligentized transport and logistics
c) Intelligent buildings and home living
d) Information network
e) Intelligent measure and cognition
f) Knowledge center and information processing
g) Intelligent manufacturing
h) Intelligent grid and energy resources
i) Intelligent commerce and finance
j) Urban environment
k) Intelligent medical and health care
l) Urban security A B C D

11. The 12 content above can be divided into 4 parts
A. Intelligentized development of city infrastructures
B. Intelligentized development of city information environment
C. Intelligentized development of city industries
D. Intelligentized development of city administration
They generally sketch out main connotations of Chinese city intelligentization.

12. This research project involving
30 CAE fellows and more than 100 Chinese scientists and experts;
Representatives from Chinese cities, e. g. Beijing, Ninbo, Wuhan , Xian and Hangzhou etc;
Joint research with international counter partner, e.g. academic exchange and a joint workshop on iCity with acatech on Sep 10, 2012 in Ningbo, China

13. Thank You!