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Shanghai's e-government service office announced that an online e-stamp platform has been put into use for the public.

The city will provide e-stamp production and management services for legal persons and individuals to satisfy the growing demand for e-signatures in electronic documents, said the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology.

A month-long information consumption festival was launched in Shanghai on Friday by the municipal government in an effort to accelerate developing new-quality productive forces and build cutting-edge digital industry clusters with international competitiveness, according to official sources.

"Information consumption is a new consumption model in the digital economy era that focuses on interaction and experience between producers and consumers, featuring greater stability and durability," said Wu Lijian, deputy director of the standing committee of Shanghai's Huangpu district's people's congress during the opening ceremony of the festival.

A new study from Juniper Research has selected Shanghai as the leading smart city in Asia in 2023.

The top 5 smart cities ranked by Juniper Research are:

1. Shanghai
2. Seoul
3. Shenzhen
4. Sydney
5. Beijing

Juniper Research’s ranking of 50 world cities is based on an evaluation of many different smart city aspects, covering transportation and infrastructure, energy and lighting, city management and technology, and urban connectivity.

Shanghai is now setting the pace for smart cities.

In a ranking created by the Juniper Research agency, Shanghai was named 2022’s top smart city in the world, beating out Seoul, Barcelona, Beijing, and New York.

The Chinese city set itself apart with its Citizen Cloud. This platform for Shanghai residents serves as the only access point necessary for reaching more than a thousand different services and helps them find the information they need to make daily life easier.

Shanghai is speeding up digital transformation to improve people’s daily lives, with shorter hospital waiting time, smarter parking, bus routes with artificial intelligence and simplified digital services designed for elderly people.

With upgraded digital infrastructure such as 5G, cloud and AI, Shanghai is answering public concerns, bridging digital gaps and optimizing user experiences, city officials said.

Juniper Research’s ranking of 50 world cities evaluates transportation, infrastructure, energy, lighting, city management, technology and urban connectivity.

Shanghai has been ranked as the world’s number one smart city for the second year in a row due to its superior connectivity and data systems.

Cost Savings from Smart City Deployments to Reach $249 Billion Globally by 2028

A new study from Juniper Research, the foremost experts in the sustainability & IoT market, found Shanghai the leading smart city in 2023; ranked first for the second year in a row.

Shanghai is tackling city management challenges with a new smart system.

A smart urban management project led by Shanghai Engineering Design Institute, the city's major infrastructure designer, will be launched soon after passing inspection.

The platform, developed under a national key research plan on smart urban management, is being tested at 20 infrastructure sites in Shanghai.

A health code developed in this province for epidemic control amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Suishen code, now has a new role as the city is promoting it in more life scenarios including commuting, medical services, government services, employment and fitness, Shanghai authorities announced.

Supported by big data technology, the code is carried by Suishenban, the mobile end of the city’s one-stop online-offline services. In some scenarios, it is now used as proof of personal identification.

The devices, which electronically track how many hours each student has spent driving, represent an effort to strengthen enforcement of the often flouted 55-hour requirement.

Shanghai is spearheading a nationwide push to deploy next-generation optical networks in offices and factories, promising high-standard stability with speeds 10 to 50 times faster and lower latency.

The advanced networks, featuring 10 Gigabit Passive Optical Network (10G-PON) and the cutting-edge 50G-PON, are poised to transform key sectors that include smart manufacturing, fintech and logistics, driving Shanghai's smart city ambitions, according to city officials.

Digital upgrades are occurring regularly in Shanghai, covering anti-epidemic initiatives, retail and delivery, job seeking, taxi-hailing and customs services.

The various services and applications are part of the city's blueprint to boost digital transformation and upgrade the economy, covering artificial intelligence and eSports industry development. The umbrella blueprint will also bridge the digital divide for the elderly and disabled, providing convenient and barrier-free digital services to all citizens.

Ten key digital and smart applications were presented in downtown Shanghai on Tuesday to provide brand-new economic, life and social governance experiences.

The applications were presented in Changning District at a digital transformation promotion meeting as pilot projects to be promoted across the city. They are expected to speed up digital transformation and improve people's daily lives.

Shanghai's "International Digital Sea" project, a smart digital city in Fengxian District, will soon launch its initial phase, offering a glimpse of future urban life.

The project is the top priority in Fengxian New City, one of Shanghai's "five new cities." It covers about 1.4 square kilometers and is planned to be completed in seven phases over 10 years. It aims to create three digital cities – above ground, underground, and in the cloud.

Inspired by calligraphic lines and ribbons, Ennead Architects have designed a mixed-use development creating a cohesive and dynamic urban district creating strong visual, pedestrian, and infrastructure connections with the surrounding site, district, and the city.

Named Taopu Smart City, the project is part of a new district being planned around one of Shanghai’s largest future parks and has been awarded a 2024 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.

Shanghai will push smart city applications, like autonomous driving, 4K broadcasting and intelligent logistics and warehousing, with infrastructure construction of a citywide fiber network, industry officials said on Friday.

Compared with traditional mobile networks, the fifth-generation fixed network (F5G) delivers fiber technology and upgraded bandwidth of 1 to 5 gigabytes per second and much lower latency.

Nordic companies and firms offering new technologies are encouraged to take part in Shanghai’s smart and sustainable urban construction, officials from Yangpu District told a forum on the sidelines of the China International Import Expo.

The Nordic Sustainable City Wrap Up Meeting and Sino-Nordic Sustainable Healthcare Cooperation Forum were held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, the CIIE venue, and the Changyang Campus in Yangpu on Saturday.

Qingpu district will promote development of digital economy in its newest round of upgrades to support Shanghai's international digital hub construction.

In the next five years, Qingpu will fully promote digital transformation in fields such as industrial development, daily life and urban management, authorities said.

In terms of industrial development, the digital economy has been made a top priority. Qingpu will build itself into a digital hub in the Yangtze River Delta region, and accelerate construction of a "digital artery" along the G50 expressway. A host of digital and information industry platforms and clusters, such as Beidou West Hongqiao Base, Shixi Software Information Park and Huawei Research and Development Center, have been built along this east-west expressway.

Taopu Smart City in Shanghai's northwest downtown will become a pilot zone to achieve carbon neutrality, officials told a forum over the weekend.

The smart city, being developed on what was once one of Shanghai's most polluted industrial sites, will explore a new energy-saving and green development path, the management committee of the region said.

The blueprint and architecture style designs have been completed for the smart city. It will feature scientific innovation and ecological remediation, Ying Mingde, executive vice director of the development and construction office of the smart city told the third session of the Shanghai Top Forum.

Taopu Smart City has become a key area in Putuo District's development strategy with ongoing efforts to enhance transportation, attract high-tech industries and improve public services.

Taopu is improving its infrastructure to support industrial growth, according to a promotional event on Thursday at the China-Israel Innovation Hub in Shanghai. Two additional Metro lines, 20 and 26, are also under development apart from the operating Lines 11 and 15.