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The National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation (NASMG) in China revealed Chinas’ plans to build “Smart cities’.
According to the article currently more than 260 prefecture-level cities are installing digital geographic systems, as part of efforts to enhance Chinas government ability to make decision and improve citizens’ quality of life. Over 100 of those cities have put their systems into full operation, including Taiyuan and Jincheng in Shanxi Province, Huizhou and Foshan in Guangdong Province, Yantai and Weihai in Shandong Province. About 10 lower-level counties have also finished the construction of digital geographic systems.
Based upon a five-year plan, China will build a digital geographic framework nationwide by 2015. The NASMG will select some cities equipped with well-developed digital geographic systems to build “smart cities” on a pilot program which aims to develop urban centers administered with intelligent technology such as cloud computing.
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China Internet Information Center
Related links: National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation