BEIJING, May 29, 2023
/PRNewswire/ -- There are two cities in North China's Xiong'an New Area, or dubbed as
China's "city of the future" --
one is the city above the ground, and the other is the city in
high-tech "cloud".
Yuan Xiaodong, CTO of Xiong'an Yunwang Technology Co, has joined
the construction of Xiong'an Urban Computing Center since the plan
was first proposed in 2020, and was hailed as being "city
brain".
"I have put all my past experience on this project, and what I
dared not to do in the past can be realized here," Yuan told the
Global Times.
Yuan said that the project is part of the city's blueprint as the
city is designed to become an intelligent city featuring high-tech
innovations since its inception.
On April 1, 2017, China announced plans to establish Xiong'an
New Area in North China's
Hebei Province about 100
kilometers south of Beijing, in
what an official statement called "a strategy that will have
lasting importance for the millennium to come and a significant
national event."
For a city whose establishment will carry "lasting importance for
the millennium to come," China's
central authorities have stressed the importance of planning and
designing, saying "every inch of land should be clearly planned
before construction," according to the official Xinhua News
Agency.
China's leadership also stated to
build the city, leveraging advanced science and technology, in a
bid to make innovative advances the trademark of Xiong'an New
Area.
Futuristic city
To realize the ambitions of "city of the future," Xiong'an New Area
was being constructed via digital and real programming at the same
time, and even every building and street light in the city has a
one-to-one correspondence as part of a highly digitalized city.
With a total investment of 1.099 billion
yuan ($156 million), the
Xiong'an Urban Computing Center carries supercomputing and cloud
computing facilities, and provides network, computing, and storage
services for big data, blockchain, Internet of Things, AI, and
VR/AR covering the entire city.
The center will be a center to carry four platforms for the city,
including an integrated data platform, video network platform, city
information modeling platform and Internet of Things (IOT)
platform. All the big data of the platforms will form a collection,
and being analyzed via computing power and big data analysis tools
to provide decision-making basis for Xiong'an's urban construction
and future urban operations, and ultimately serve the daily
operations of the entire city.
The ambitious digital construction avoids the complexities of
"information islands" and will help solve problems such as data
incompatibility among various departments in the city, Yuan
said.
"Our server software instructions, network components, server
components, and security components in this center are all
self-developed by ourselves," Yuan said, proudly.
The Xiong'an Urban Computing Center was put into operation in April
this year, and is only one part of the extensive network of
technology being built in the city.
Smart construction
At the construction site of the Xiong'an Xuanwu Hospital
project, a high-definition camera with a 23x zoom is installed in
the project control room, which can focus on safety belt buckles of
workers on a scaffolding jungle about 500 meters from surface.
In the Xiong'an Citizen Service Center, each component is merged
with a chip or posted a QR code, which realizes big data management
of the whole process. The project also uses the big data center as
a hub, and incorporates a smart construction system. The contractor
only needs a computer or mobile phone to realize panoramic
monitoring, energy consumption monitoring and drone aerial
photography, according to China State Construction Co.
The citizen service center has been connected to many smart devices
at the earliest stage of design. Although the construction schedule
is tight, the digital application in the process of construction
has been a big help to quality control, Yin Yunhui, a technician
from China State Construction told the Global Times.
Since the establishment of Xiong'an New District, blockchain
technology has been applied to urban design, including the
management of the wages for every construction worker onsite, and
it can be said that blockchain technology has been integrated into
all aspects of the construction of the city.
"To avoid the risk of interception or misappropriation of funds, we
have developed a blockchain system for public fund management,
relying on the information flow on the blockchain to drive capital
flow to realize accurate, timely and transparent disbursement of
funds," Meng Hongwei, deputy
director of Xiong'An Blockchain Lab with Intelligent City
Innovation Federation, told the Global Times.
Now, there are more than 400 projects covering more than 4,000
enterprises registered in local industrial service platform aided
with the blockchain technology to make payment, Meng added.
The city's blockchain lab, which was set up in 2020 with the goal
of applying blockchain technology to aid the construction of a new
and smart city, also highlights Xiong'an's focus on technological
innovation.
Xiong'an New Area launched the digital yuan pilot project at the
end of 2019, with many use scenarios including the banks and
inner-city supermarkets, hotels and e-commerce platforms trialing
out the digital yuan.
Over a development span of more than six years, the city has
completed a cumulative investment of 530
billion yuan by the end of 2022, and more than 3,600
buildings have been erected. The city has also rolled out 3,536 5G
base stations, realizing full coverage of 5G networks in the
city.
As the first experimental area in China to adopt smart transportation, the total
mileage of digitalized road in Xiong'an will be expanded to 500
kilometers, and currently, the total mileage of digital roads has
reached more than 200 kilometers. And, relying on "5G+Beidou"
positioning, the city's public transport system will become
increasingly intelligent.
"Xiong'an is to be a leader in innovation, offering endless
possibilities and opportunities," Yuan said.
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SOURCE Global Times