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The general situation of the economic and social development of the city

Located in the east of Shandong Peninsula in Shandong Province with developed economy, Yantai City is one of the top 20 cities with strong economic power in China. It is one of the first groups of coastal cities that opened to the outside world. It is an international port city, commercial city and tourism city in Bohai Economic Rim and Northeast Asia. It is a famous historical and cultural city and civilized city in China. It is also the best leisure city and one of the ten most beautiful cities in China. It is known as “Immortal City of Mountains and Sea”. It is also one of the emerging economic cities with the most investment potential and development vitality.

There are six first-class open ports and Yantai Port is one of the top 10 ports in China, open to navigation with over 100 ports from 70 countries and regions.

Under its jurisdiction there are six districts, seven prefecture-level cities and one town, covering an area of 13,745 square kilometers and a permanent population of 6.503 million.

The GDP of Yantai in 2012 reached RMB 528.138 billion.

Dominated by the concept of transformation of economic growth mode and structure adjustment, we stick to the strategy of rejuvenating the city through manufacturing industry, beef up the existing flagship enterprises, develop advanced manufacturing industry, lengthen the industry chain to extend the smile curve and speed up the building of a national innovation city.

Does the city have a strategy, plan or action for the Smart City development? If so, please provide a brief overview of document, such as the innovative concept, targets and main actions.

Yantai City adheres to the principle of “people first, open platform, service purchase and industrial development”, strive to create the smart city brand of “smart Yantai” and the smart industry brand of “Cloud•Yantai”, in 3-5 years. Great efforts will be made to achieve six major objectives:

 Higher efficiency of government administration;

 Better ability to provide public service;

 Better city management;

 Faster industrial transformation;

 Improved eco-environment; and

 Enhance people's happiness index.

Please describe the policies, actions and outcomes/impact of the ICT infrastructure sharing, information sharing and service platform sharing across smart city projects from the Smart City.

Based on the approach of “government leadership, enterprise investment, professional service and market-based operation”, establish Yantai cloud computing center to provide

various smart fields with centralized infrastructure including computer room, network, hardware, security devices, disaster response center etc. Make overall considerations for such factors as computing resources, storage resources, network resources, information resources, application support and information security to realise city-wide intensive application of non-confidential information resources. Make sure of intensive development, standard service, information sharing and maximized benefits in order to enhance public management and service.

With city data sharing system as the underpinning force, set up a city public service platform integrating service portals, integration platforms and operation centers. By standardizing the regulations and opening access, provide access service for the management and service applications developed by enterprises and departments of various types, so that the application systems can share data on the platform and coordinate with other relevant applications to serve specific purposes. After applications are accessed, operators can utilize the environment provided by public service platforms, such as ID certification, payment through citizen card, expense settlement, operation and management, to operate the systems and provide services, including e-commerce and online inquiry of and payment for gas, electricity, water and heating.

The typical smart city service or application of the city. Please describe the progress and the assessment of each service ( less than five services)

Service 1 City public service platform: set up a city public service platform integrating service portals, integration platforms and operation centres.

Enable enterprises and individuals to conveniently and quickly access administrative, public and social services online just like on a shopping website, and comprehensively improve information service in the city.

Service 2 Government cloud centre: with resource sharing and government affair coordination as the goal, build a city e-government cloud platform in an intensive way. Leverage on the new generation information technology to develop cloud-based software and hardware infrastructure in an centralized way, and gradually realize such functions of e-government as

“infrastructure cloud, application service cloud, information resource cloud and technical service cloud” across the city. Change the current mode that each department develops its own system independently and separately, reduce overlapping investment, and make e-government development more efficient and beneficial.

Service 3 Citizen card: in light of the service concept of “one card for multiple uses; convenience for citizens”, push the project to bring real benefits to citizens. Continue to improve the construction of capital settlement platform for citizen cards, develop multiple payment functions, and realize seamless connection of self-service on various carriers, WAP and SMS application. Work faster to expand the functions of citizen card,

promote its use for travel, education, entertainment and digital community development, and achieve “one card for multiple uses” across various fields and industries including entrance guard, drug store, supermarket, cinema and catering. Continue to improve the service system for citizen card, enlarge the scope of its use from five districts to township and county level, and expand the scope of card holders from resident population to temporary residents.

Service 4 Sanitation: centering on residents’ electronic health files and medical history, establish a regional sanitation information platform of two levels (city and county), make overall plans to develop such information systems as public health, medical service, new agricultural cooperative, basic medicine system and comprehensive sanitary management, so as to connect all types of medical and sanitary organizations at various levels and share information among them, and forma sound mechanism in which medical and sanitary information resources are shared and businesses are coordinated.

Service 5 Personal files: build a personal webpage titled “happy life” for every citizen to record all kinds of information in one’s whole life. The webpage also provides characteristic services including online service, intelligent recommendation, vertical searching and socializing, providing all-round information for citizens to deal with matters related to government affairs, personal life and business.

Please describe the measures on organization, policy, funding and business model of the Smart City development.

In terms of organization, form the Yantai smart city leading team to be responsible for promoting smart city construction, smart industry development and information consumption market in an orderly way, and summarize and popularise from the results of innovative construction. Improve the mechanism for overall deployment and coordination, and intensify the leading team’s role as an organizer in multiple aspects throughout the “smart city” project, such as overall arrangement and coordination, preparation of the action plan, formulating of standards and regulations, macro control during construction, design of assessment indicators and evaluation of results.

In terms of policy support, study and issue a series of favourable and supportive policies for smart city investment and financing, talent introduction and cultivation, enterprise fostering etc. Issue management methods for smart city projects, integrate projects of departmental information platform construction and make holistic arrangement for the smart city construction capital.

In terms of business model, encourage and mobilize social force, attract the active participation of various social resources, and freely develop smart services on an open platform to jointly build a smart Yantai. Mitigate the huge amount of basic government capital investment and prevent “Information Island” caused by independent and separate development. Study policies and measures for service purchase, mobilize all kinds of investors to participate, and attract more enterprises to take an active part in building a smart city of Yantai.