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The fourth Digital China Summit kicked off on Sunday in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian Province, exhibiting breakthroughs in the information sector and innovations in digital transformation.

Themed "stimulating new dynamics of data factors and embarking on a new journey for digital China," the summit aims to provide a platform for exchanges in digital technology and industry cooperation.

With the emphasis on greater cost savings, process standardisation and operational consolidation, China seems to be an obvious choice, but the process of mapping and launching Shared Service Centres (SSCs) into a new location is not without challenges.

Chengdu Will organize an event on smart city governance 29 December. Based on “releasing the value of data, empowering smart governance”, the event is the final installment of the 2020 Chengdu New Economy Double Thousand Project.

Representatives of experts, investment institutions and renowned enterprises will gather in the capital city Sichuan ProvinceBoth on-site and through online channels, and in-depth discussions on how city governance, and how smart cities empower trends and opportunities in governance.

What you need to know:

• Once a modest fishing village, Shenzhen is now a global innovation hub. Its rapid rise to prominence demonstrates how technology, strategic planning and visionary leadership can reshape the destiny of a city—and indeed a nation.

What if Tanzania’s bustling commercial capital could become Africa’s most advanced, inclusive and sustainable smart city?

This was the central question at a high-level session during Innovation Week Tanzania and the Future Ready Summit 2025, where urban planners, architects, academics and policymakers gathered to explore how cities in Tanzania could adopt smart, people-centred urban development models—drawing inspiration from China’s remarkable transformation of Shenzhen.

Pathologists at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles are consulting with their peers at Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University (HZU) in Hangzhou, China, through scanning technology offered by Aperio, a Vista, Calif.-based developer of digital pathology solutions. In Canada’s Northwest Territories, meanwhile, 18 community health centers spread out over 1.3 million square miles are having their radiological images read by specialists at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife within 15 minutes, thanks to digital imaging solutions from Rochester, N.Y.-based Carestream Health.

This weekend’s annual G7 summit sees the UK host the leaders of the US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy and Canada in Cornwall. When the grouping was founded in 1975 it consisted of the world’s ‘seven largest economies’. With its ongoing exclusion of China, that is certainly no longer true.

Today one might more accurately call the group the world’s most influential democracies – it might also be thought of as the West’s steering committee – and there are good reasons for such a group to exist. There are many topics relevant to the world’s rising autocratic power on which the world’s leading democratic nations should be eager to swap notes.

China's economic planners have made the decision to tailor Hainan, a province in the South China Sea, into a Free Trade Port (FTP). In Hainan, the smart city is welcoming many high-tech industries but could also be a game-changer for the global entertainment industry.

The smart city has been built on the basis of the Hainan Resort Software Community (RSC), one of the largest technological parks in the world, which is a strategic joint project between the Hainan Provincial Government and China Electronic Corporation, a Global Top 500 company.

Technology is helping China move 250 million people from the countryside to its new 'smart cities' by 2025

Standing in the middle of Yinchuan's cavernous City Hall, it's difficult not to be awed by the scale of ambition of the city's young mayor, Bai Shangcheng.

The building's vast marble foyer bristles with technology: sliding glass doors that greet you as you enter, self-service touchscreens on huge monitors, a cinema waiting room where you can watch films while you kill time, and QR codes scattered liberally around the building to quickly answer common questions, so you don't have to queue for a service desk if you have your smartphone with you.

UOF is a standard document format for the new generation of China's office-related software and it uses XML contained in a compressed file container. It competes with the OpenDocument format, which was developed by the Open Office XML technical committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.

Turkmenistan has explored the expansion of cooperation with Chinese technology companies in artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and advanced telecommunications, Trend reports via the Turkmen Ministry of Communications.

The discussions involved Deputy Prime Minister Batyr Annayev and Minister of Communications Hajymyrat Hudaygulyyev. The Chinese side included major firms such as Huawei Technologies Co., ZTE-affiliated enterprises, and other representatives of the technology and telecommunications sector, with both parties emphasizing significant potential for long-term collaboration.

Tanzanian government has chosen Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider based in China, to be its technical advisor in empowering the East African country's ICT sector.

An agreement was signed at the first Huawei Cloud Conference in Dar es Salaam Thursday, seeing Huawei offering Tanzania services on ICT training, education and big data services.

Cities should cooperate globally to pool resources, share ideas and explore the best ways to address common challenges

We are used to seeing global governance and big tech companies as the main components of innovation and industrial transformation. However, the role of cities is also crucial if we want to ensure that the transformation process is inclusive, balanced and centered on the quality of life of citizens. After all, it is in the cities that barriers to the flow of elements such as knowledge, technology, talent and capital are broken down and the integration of science and technology with economic and social governance is facilitated.

During his trip to China for the World Economic Forum in Tianjin, Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính met with Chen Jining, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai, on Thursday.

The Prime Minister congratulated Shanghai on its achievements in modernization, innovation, and reform and called the city a “testbed” for China’s opening-up policies.

Smart urban development, although relatively new to Vietnam, plays a crucial role in the country's urbanisation process and is prioritised by the Government, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung has called for enhanced cooperation with Chinese partners to develop a clearer legal framework, particularly focusing on strategies and standards for the development of Vietnam’s smart urban areas.

Wanxiang Holding Co., Ltd, a China-based automotive giant partners with blockchain-based tech firm PlatOn to develop a “smart city” in Hangzhou, as per a report by CryptoNinjas on June 20.

The report states that the smart city dubbed as “Innova City” will be built through PlatON’s blockchain infrastructure, purportedly for the purposes of interfacing with city resident ID cards and monitoring driving behavior, among others. The report adds a statement from Chief Innovation Officer at Wanxiang, Vincent Wang, who shared more details: “Imagine a smart transit system that tracks and rewards responsible driving behavior, or a renewable power grid that incentivizes energy generation and trading, or even a myriad of urban services that can be validated, built, and offered at ease without the constraints of rigid data silos.”

This may come as a bit of a surprise. Ok, so public services in China are not considered to be world-class yet. But given that the GDP of a number of small countries has been spent on developing China’s e-government infrastructure over the past decade, Chinese citizens have a right to expect more of what their government provides for them online.

The "Smart City" Development and Innovation Competition was held in Nanning in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on March 30, with 37 teams winning in the finals of the competition and five representative projects completing on-site signing.

A total of 1,382 works participated in this competition, among which 252 works won awards.

Zambia has deployed surveillance camera project solutions on the roads namely the Advanced Road Safety Management System and the Intelligent Mobility Solutions (IMS) – Safe City Project.

These are similar in the conceptualisation and implementation of the work systems because the two systems work complimentary to each other.

“The Safe City Project now under implementation by Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment (ZTE) Corporation is a reflection of China Zambia Security Cooperation. China has provided a large amount of military and security equipment,” said Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Li Jie in a speech at the commissioning and handing over of paramilitary police housing units in Lilayi.