Smart Cities 智慧城市 - Digital China Wins the Future

Tag: Smart Cities 智慧城市

7 Posts

Two Chinese scientists programming a large urban "brain" computer system.

Analysis, Smart Society, Spatial Design

Digital China’s Next Stage Will Be Won or Lost in Smart Cities

December 1, 2025

China Central Television visualizes a future Smart Society

Explainer, Smart Society

Smart Society: China’s Vision for a Digital-Intelligent Future

December 1, 2025

Beijing Party Committee title Build an Inclusive and Convenient Digital Society

Strategic Ways, Translation

Beijing Party Committee | Digital Society

April 11, 2025

Smart Society, Spatial Design, Strategy Milestone

Strategy Milestone: Whole-of-City Digitalized Transformation Defined as Path to Smart Society

January 10, 2025

Stack Governance Layer, Strategy Milestone

Singapore and China Hold Formal Dialogue to Align National Digital Strategies

July 28, 2024

Analysis, Smart Society

China Unicom Brings “Smart Society” to Hong Kong

March 17, 2023

Key One: China has an elite digital triad of national strategies: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society. Together, they drive the country's digital-intelligent transformation into a Modernized Socialist Great Power. Although this website focuses on Digital China, understanding its full scope requires knowing all three.

Key Two: Digital China is both a strategy and a stack. The strategy—an ends, ways, and means framework—explains how the Party generates and employs digital power. The stack—a layered system architecture—shows how that power is built. Together, they provide an integrated model for understanding China’s national digital strategy.

“The struggle between China and the United States in cyberspace is intensifying. The U.S. policy of containment against China has expanded from physical space to cyberspace, aiming to place China in a passive position. Cyber warfare is no longer a matter of whether we want to fight it or not; it has reached a point where we have no choice but to respond."
Zheng Bijian, Face the Challenge with Comprehensive Planning; Strive to Build a World Class Cyber Great Power in Ten Years, State Council Secretariat Second Bureau, April 3, 2013