On the afternoon of August 1, the first China‘s New Smart City Construction Summit press conference was held in Beijing. According to the introduction, the first China's New Smart City Construction Summit will be held in Qingdao in November this year, striving to become a platform to showcase the latest achievements of China's new smart city construction.

In addition, from August 2, the New Smart City Innovation and Application Competition will be launched first to select a number of new smart city solutions for the whole country, and actively encourage the application of these excellent projects in Shandong province.

In recent years, Qingdao has been seizing the opportunity of digital economy development and has introduced a series of relevant policies to fully empower the high-quality development of economy and society with digital, networked and intelligent technologies and promote the all-round digital transformation of the city.

(By Fanying)