Action Plan 2011-2013 of ShanghaiMunicipality for BuildingSmartCity

Pressing ahead with building Smart City is for Shanghai an important means of realizing “innovation-driven transformation”, a major move to further put into practice “Better City, Better Life”, and also the logical call of a new round of fast development of informatization. Since the 1990s, having taken the advance of informatization as a strategic measure governing entire modernization development and made consistent efforts for three consecutive five-year plan periods, Shanghai has now enjoyed a leading position in the country, with some indicators reaching the advanced level of developed countries and a batch of new technological achievements being fully shown or demonstrated at the World Expo, which has laid a foundation for building Smart City. In order to unite efforts to push forward the SmartCity drive, this Action Plan is drawn based on the “Outline of the 12th Five-Year Plan for the Economic and Social Development of Shanghai”.

I. Guiding Principle, Implementation Principles, Development Objectives and Outline of Tasks

1. Guiding Principle

Insisting on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and Important Thought of “Three Represents”, further implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development, centering on the strategic objective of Shanghai to realize “leading the country in transforming the economic growth pattern, enhancing independent innovative ability, advancing reform and opening-up and building a socialist harmonious society” and to turn itself into an international economic, financial, trade, and shipping center and also a socialist modern international metropolis, and in accordance with the overall demand of “innovation-driven transformation”, Shanghai will, by further carrying out a strategy with informatization playing a pioneering and driving role in development, follow the development route ofimproving the Internet broadband and intelligent application level, build an information infrastructure system of international level, a convenient and highly effective information sensing and intelligent application system, an innovative new generation of IT industry system and a credible and reliable regional information security protection system. It will give full play to market mechanism and enterprises, attach importance to government guidance, improve market supervision, vigorously promote the building of future-oriented SmartCity carrying mainly digital, network and intelligent features, so as to raise the city’s all-round modernization level and let the citizens share the benefits offered by SmartCity.

2. Implementation Principles

(1) Building a Solid Foundation and Proceeding Step by Step

Giving prominence to raising the level of information infrastructure facilities and prioritizing the laying of a solid foundation for smart application, strengthening unified planning, standardizing management, increasing input and enhancing building intensity; promoting sustained SmartCity building through phased development and rolling implementation.

(2) Pursuing Innovative Development and Benefiting the People’s Life

With a view to promoting the transformation of economic development pattern and improving the people’s livelihood, vigorously promoting the innovative development of technology, application, management, system and mechanism, exploring new patterns, fostering new trades, steadily improving the efficiency of city operation and public service level, promoting the coordinated economic and social development, and letting the broad masses of residents and the businesses really enjoy the benefits and convenience brought about by Smart City.

(3) Giving Prominence to Priorities and Focusing on Projects

Centering on such key areas as economic development, city operation, social management and public service, emphasizing clear aim, actual results and operational feasibility, and focusing on public, basic, innovation demonstrative projects and those require coordination, stressing phase targets and building pace, and accelerating the in-depth application of IT in various areas of urban development.

(4) Municipality and Districts in Coordination and Key Projects as Examples

The municipal and district governments working in coordination, with support given to the districts and county for trial projects, speeding up progress in key fields, areas and projects which will play an exemplary role, and promoting facility improvement, application penetration and industrial development.

(5) Government Providing Guidance and Businesses Acting as Main Players

Strengthening government guidance through planning, developing policies, laws and regulations, laying down standards, improving market supervision, creating a just and orderly market environment; giving full play to the basic role of market in resource allocation and sticking to demand orientation and with the businesses as the main body, and creating a favorable environment for the whole society to take part in building Smart City.

3. Development Objectives

By the end of 2013, Shanghai will have taken on a new aspect in building Smart City with leaping infrastructure level, prominent demonstrative and spurring-on effect, remarkable rise in effect of application at key areas and projects, breakthroughs in key technologies, international level of the relevant sectors, and controllable information security, thus laying a solid foundation for attaining the planning goals set in the 12th Five-Year Plan, that is, for the city to maintain its lead in the country in the overall level of informatization and rank in the internationally advanced. The above will be embodied in the following:

- Basic Completion of BroadbandCity and WirelessCity

Fiber to the home will cover all homes in the urbanized areas, with 100Mbps access capacity provided and 20Mbps for homes on average and a wireless broadband network featuring multiple layers, wide coverage and multiple hot spots. The international and domestic portal bandwidth of the Internet will reach 1Tbps and 5Tbps respectively. The State’s trial of converging three networks of telecom, broadcasting and the Internet will be accomplished. All the above means the city can provide to users broadband service at any time and place according to their needs, thus becoming a most competitive region in the country in terms of telecom quality, broadband width and service level.

- Initial Effect in the Efficiency of Information Sensing and Intelligent Application

All people will have electronic health file, important food safety information will be traceable, grid-based managementwill basically cover the whole city, real-time traffic information can be obtained from multiple channels, IT will be applied throughout the management, production and operation process of the businesses, the integrated informatization and industrialization index will reach 80, and e-business volume will come to RMB 850 billion annually. Basically, the application will give rise to a new pattern featuring personalized public service, refined city management, convenient government service and intelligent industrial development.

- New Generation of IT Giving Powerful Backing to SmartCityBuilding

By 2013, the information industry will reach a scale of RMB 1,280 billion, with its service sector generating a value added accounting for 6.2% of the city’s GDP. Some areas like integrated circuit, telecom and network equipment and cloud computing will approach the international advanced level. Innovation ability will greatly improve, resulting in the mastering of a batch of key and core technologies and the birth of a host of internationally competitive businesses dynamic in innovation. The city will be built into a leading place for the innovation of a new generation of IT and one for industry clusters in the country, thus becoming a leader in the development of modern information service sector.

- Credible, Reliable and Controllable Information Security

Information security protection level will rise considerably and cyber space governance, comprehensive supervision and emergency handling ability will clearly grow, and information security awareness of all the people will increase, which will lay a foundation for building the city into a leader in information security service in the country.

4. Outline of Tasks

In the next three years, centering on building an information infrastructure system of international level and through government planning and guidance, the city will encourage the relevant businesses to carry out five special projects, namely, broadband city, wireless city, telecom hub, three-network convergence and functional facilities, and three key tasks of perfecting planning system, standardizing building management and strengthening mechanism, so as to raise its level of information infrastructure. Centering on building a convenient and highly efficient information sensing and intelligent application system, it will push forward as priorities eight special projects, namely, urban construction management, city operation security, smart traffic management, social endeavors and public service, e-government, information resource development and utilization, promoting the building of an economic, financial, trade and shipping center and deep integration of informatization and industrialization, in an effort to remarkably enhance the level of city operation management, economic development, public service and people’s living quality. Centering on building an actively innovative new generation of IT industry system and with the enterprises acting as the main players, it will implement as priorities eight special projects, that is, cloud computing, Internet of things, TD-LTE, high-end software, integrated circuit, next generation network (NGN), Internet of vehicles, and information service, with emphasis put on technological research and development, demonstration and application and industrial development. Centering on building a credible and reliable city information security protection system, it will organize and execute three special projectsand three key tasks to ensure that information security will be controllable.

II. Information Infrastructure

Giving full play to the role of telecom and radio and television carriers as the main force and in accordance with the principle of “planning guidance, intensive development, resource sharing, standardized management, satisfying needs and appropriately ahead of the times” and with enhancing information infrastructure service level and general service level as the main line, increasing input, strengthening the information network’s bearing capacity, the comprehensive utilization ability of facilities and resources and the attracting and covering ability of information and telecom; strengthening information infrastructure planning and building management, promoting improvement in mechanism and model innovation, and satisfying the demand of the residents, businesses and institutions for better telecom quality and service level.

1. Special Projects

Special Project One: BroadbandCity

Speeding up the building of optical broadband network and NGB; achieving full coverage of all the urbanized areas; remarkably raising the level of infrastructure facilities; building the largest optical broadband and NGB city network in the country; and basically completing broadband city.

- Optical Broadband Network

Applying the standards of providing optical broadband access to all the apartmentsfor newly-built residential quarters, andspeeding up the renovation to provide such access for the existing residential quarters and buildings. Optical to the home capacity willcover more than 6.5 million homes in all.

- NGB

Completing NGB network renovation for 4.9 million cable TV usersand accomplishing the migration to digital TV from cable TV for 1.8 million suburban users.

Special Project Two: WirelessCity

Building city-wide wireless broadband network featuring multiple layers, wide coverage and multiple hot spots, and basically completing wireless city.

- WLAN Hot Spots

Vigorously carrying out WLAN construction at public places and service facilities throughout the city, 22,000 in total (about 130,000 AP); achieving a coverage rate of over 80% of the city’s important public places and facilities and providing broadband access of up to 20 Mbps, leading the country in both coverage intensity and quality.

- 3G Network

Perfecting the three 3G networks, enhancing the capability of providing wireless broadband data business, and basically realizing wireless broadband coverage of over 1Mbps across the city and over 3 Mbps for the central districts, suburban new towns and central towns.

- TD-LTE Scale Technology Experiment Network

Completing the construction of state TD-LTE scale technology experiment network and next striving for coverage of the central districts and part of the suburban towns; taking the lead in putting TD-LTE into commercial operation among all the cities in the country.

Special Project Three: Telecom Hub Construction

Maintaining the city’s lead in the portal capacity of metro access network in the country, with seabed optical cable telecom volume accounting for over 50% of the country’s total, further improving telecom relay ability, enhancing ability to deliver service to the whole country and the neighboring countries and regions, and actively building the city into an Asia-Pacific telecom hub.

- Seabed Optical Cable System

Accomplishing new seabed optical cable’s landing in Shanghai, pushing forward the capacity expansion of existing seabed optical cables, and striving for a gross capacity of 10Tbps of all the seabed optical cables landing in the city.

- International & Domestic Internet Portal Capacity Expansion and Inter-connection

Strengthening international and domestic telecom system construction, with international and domestic portal bandwidth reaching 1Tbps and 5Tbps respectively; encouragingbasic telecom carriers to have more direct inter-network connection and enhance their ability to have inter-connection and inter-operability with other network carriers.

Special Project Four: Trial of the Convergence of Three Networks

Accomplishing the State trial task of tri-network integration, and, in the process, achieving a leading position in the country in basic infrastructure level, business scale, operation management model, application service level and key industries; and letting the residents fully share the achievements brought about by the convergence.

- Management Platform

Basically completing the integrated broadcasting control platform for IPTV, mobile phone TV and so on, improving relevant business operations and functions, ensuring connection with the relevant State platforms.

- Trial Operations

Carrying forward such trials as Internet access based on IPTV, mobile phone TV and cable TV networks, promoting the application of integrated operations covering multi-screen interaction, HD television, interactive recreations and intelligent home life, and exploring innovative management and business models.

- Business Bases

Stepping up the building of multi-screen and interaction platform of China Telecom Video and Communication Operational Center covering mobile phone, computer and TV and achieving inter-application of multi-terminal equipment; pushing forward the building of new China Mobile Video Products Innovation Base, developing new mobile phone video operations and new user-end products, and promoting the integration of video operations; pressing ahead with building the China Unicom Mobile Phone Application Shop Operational Base, improving operational management platform and developing multiple application functions, consolidating content resourcesand developing new business operation patterns.

Special Project Five: Functional Facilities

Building domestically leading and internationally first-class functional infrastructure facilities for service, taking the lead in the country to deploy commercial cloud computing data center of scale and super computing mainframe system that ranks in the forefront of the world in computing speed, which will render a basic backing to the development of value-added network operations such as storage, disaster preparation, high performance computing and high precision positioning service, and meet the needs of the economic and social development of Shanghai and its neighbouring areas.

- InternetDataCenter (IDC)

Going for both centralized and scale IDC deployment, boosting high-end business operations including cloud computing and virtual storage, and striving for 20,000 or more of body frames in all the IDCs in the city.

- Super Computing Center, Phase IV

Strengthening the cooperation between Ministries and Shanghai Municipality, introducing super computing mainframe system that is in the front rank internationally, constructing corresponding operational base and auxiliary facilities, and steadily improving application service level and expanding application service areas.

- High-precision Positioning Service Platform

Based on Shanghai GPS comprehensive information network, completing the construction and renovation of multiple stations compatible with BeiDou (Compass) Navigation Satellite System, GPS and GLONASS; building Shanghai regional CROS wireless broadcasting platform and high precision positioning service platform, and conducting multi-position application service.

III. Information Sensing and Intelligent Application

With user’s needs as orientation, bringing into play government guidance, actively encouraging extensive participation by all social circles; elevating service level with importance attached to the key areas, expediting new technology applications, stressing information sharing and in-depth digging, pushing for intelligent application in such priority areas as information sensing, operational coordination and system integration, popularizing new technology, trades and models through the work of application demonstration, in order to realize safer city operation, better coordinated economic development, more efficient government administration, better public service and more convenient life for the citizens.

Special Project One: City Construction Management

Centering on the key and weak points, using advanced, reliable and suitable IT and innovative management concepts and strengthening inter-department data consolidation and professional coordination in facility maintenance and construction project management to further elevate the level of refined and intelligent management of urban construction.

Extending application of grid-basedmanagement system.Extending the areas under the grid-based management to the suburban districts and county with a combined 600 sq km of urbanized area, and lowering management gravity to the level of the sub-district and towns. Building and improving professional grid-based management systems such as water management, city greening and municipal management. Improving construction market management information platformand achieving information flow and sharing among the administration departments. Building underground space management information platform,and conducting the demonstration application of comprehensive underground management and underground construction risk control. Conducting trial applicationof Intelligent Water Network, establishing Intelligent Suzhou Creek Supervision System, planning for and constructing a sensing system for Intelligent Water Network. Applying the demonstration of Smart Grid and buildingShanghai into aSmart Grid demonstration city.