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

Hengqin New District is located in the area where Hengqin Island is, south of Zhuhai City in Guangdong Province, adjacent to the three islands of Macao and overlooking Hong Kong across the river. It is the only place in Mainland China connecting Hong Kong and Macao via road and bridge and the center of Southeast Asia and China as an economically booming region.

Hengqin New District gives top priority to cooperation, innovation and service and makes full use of its geological advantage of being located at the juncture of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to promote close cooperation and integrated development with Hong Kong and Macao and gradually build itself into a demonstration district of close cooperation between Guangdong and Hong Kong and Macao that drives the development of the Pearl River Delta, serves Hong Kong and Macao and takes the lead in development.

Hengqin New District has a total area of 106.46 square kilometers and a permanent population of 7,585, and it is planned that by the end of 2020, Hengqin New District will have a total population of 280,000 and per capita GDP of 200,000 Yuan.

Hengqin New District has planned to start smart city development in tourism & leisure, business services, financial services, scientific and educational development, cultural creativity, high-tech, TCM & health care and other industries.

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.

Zhuhai has formulated the Zhuhai Smart City Master Plan. According to the plan, after 10-15 years of efforts, Hengqin will be built into an “open island” connecting Hong Kong and Macao, an economically prosperous and livable “vigorous island”, a knowledge-intensive, information-developed “smart island” and a resource-saving and environment-friendly “eco-island”.

With respect to

 Environment, Zhuhai will promote green and ecologic urban development and ensure the healthy and sustainable development of Hengqin.

 Water affairs, Zhuhai will achieve dynamic management of water systems and optimize water resource allocation and water environment governance.

 Energy, Hengqin will achieve the “smart, efficient and reliable” intelligent power grid development goal.

 Transport, Zhuhai will create an integrated Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao transport model to realize comprehensive intelligent management of all kinds of transport means and comprehensive one-stop information service acquisition in the city.

 Life quality, Zhuhai will realize integrated food, housing, transport, travel, shopping and entertainment services.

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.

The ICT infrastructures in Hengqin are managed by different smart city projects, with the general hope of achieving unified management and information sharing. For example, Hengqin has established a special communication network company to be responsible for unified construction and operation of new communication networks. Wireless base stations are jointly constructed by the operators under coordination of the non-profit organizations (relevant units for urban construction and management or their dispatched offices, such as the Communications Association) appointed by the government. 20 wireless base stations have been constructed and shared at the first phase.

Video surveillance, smart sensors and other infrastructures will be constructed and shared in accordance with the product catalog Hengqin will formulate, the infrastructure construction of each smart city project will be carried out by selecting products from the product catalog, and perceptual information will be open to the urban public support platform to achieve sharing and unified management of information.

In addition, Hengqin is also positively carrying out joint investment and cooperation, information infrastructure interconnection, high-quality information resource exchange and sharing with the telecom operators in Hong Kong and Macao.

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 Electronic ring net. Intelligent video surveillance, precise positioning sensor cable and other new technology portfolios are used to build the closed non-physical electronic surveillance and monitoring network system along the shoreline around the island to provide basic facilities for the customs office to carry out inspection around the island so as to achieve effective supervision of the shoreline around Hengqin Island and prevent and crack down on smuggling and other illegal activities.

Service 2 3C green intelligent transformer sub-stations. A number of pilot projects for new technology application are under construction, including distributed energy consumption, micro-grid construction, intelligent power transmission and transformation, power distribution network construction, intelligent power consumption and intelligent support platform construction.

Service 3 Electronic networking project. IOT monitoring, smart toll-gate control and other IT-based techniques are used to build the intelligent, intensive, safe, stable and efficient electronic networking system that suits the business characteristics of Hengqin New District and meet the needs of enterprises for speedy customs clearance and the needs of customs offices for effective supervision.

Service 4 Digital Hengqin geospatial framework construction project. It provides a public geographic information and data platform and the data standards and security system for generation, management and updating of geographic information for all departments directly under the government of Hengqin New District to realize geospatial information sharing and exchange.

Service 5 Online service hall. It realizes the connection between the sub-halls at the city and district levels and the online provincial service hall. The city's 1,540 administrative approval items and 406 social service items have been released on the online service hall, realizing data synchronization of the e-government systems at the provincial, city and district levels.

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

In terms of construction of organization, Hengqin has adopted the leadership group and expert committee mode. The smart city development leadership group is responsible for making decisions on major issues related to the development of Hengqin Smart Island. Well-known domestic and foreign academicians and experts in smart cities are employed to form the Hengqin Smart Island advisory expert panel to provide important support for the government decision-making.

In terms of policy support, Hengqin has promulgated the Special Plan for Digital Hengqin and other related documents to carry out planning for the construction of infrastructures in Hengqin. Hengqin intends to formulate the Overall Design and Action Plan for Hengqin Smart Island and plans to implement a series of special actions for application and short-term plans.

Hengqin has promulgated the policies such as the preferential catalog for Hengqin’s industrial development, customs supervision and tax collection and administration. Hengqin has formulated and implemented the policies for building the national pilot district for talent management reform, promoted the establishment of the credit system and introduced the well-known domestic arbitration institutions.

In terms of capital investment, Hengqin has established a stable financial investment guarantee mechanism and a fund management system and is positively striving to gain the relevant fund support from the governments of the state and Guangdong Province. In addition, it has also raised funds through BT, social (private) investments and other financing modes.

In terms of process mode, Having been positively exploring a variety of business modes, Hengqin has introduced BT / BOT, PPP and other business modes in the information system

construction and attracted private capital investment. In this way, enterprises are responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of information systems, have the ownership of assets as the part of their investment, and obtain business income through advertising and value-added services etc.