China's smart cities development / Katherine Atha [and ten others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Atha, Katherine, author.

Contributor:

U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, issuing body.

S.O.S. Int'l

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Technological innovations--Government policy--China.

Cities and towns.

City planning--Technological innovations--Government policy--China.

City planning.

Smart cities--Government policy--China.

Smart cities.

Internet of things--Government policy--China.

Internet of things.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 113 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Place of Publication:

Vienna, VA : SOS International LLC, 2020.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

China has become a global leader in smart cities initiatives, combining embedded sensors, metering devices, cameras, and other monitoring technologies with big data processing and artificial intelligence (AI) analysis to help manage its cities and public spaces. Its leadership has clearly signaled the importance of smart cities development, elevating it to a national strategy, and has poured government resources into furthering its growth. China reportedly has nearly 800 smart cities pilot programs underway or in planning, which would be more than half of the total smart cities around the world. As China's state-run news service Xinhua recently editorialized, China believes it will win "the global race toward building an intelligent and data-driven society." While the improvement of municipal infrastructure is ostensibly benign, the pace, scale, and application of China's smart cities development poses new and substantive challenges to U.S. interests at home and abroad. U.S. support for global smart cities development is tied to broader foreign policy initiatives intended to bolster support for a values-led system and offer an alternative to authoritarian development models. While the United States is itself a world leader in developing smart cities technologies, its sustained position is by no means guaranteed, particularly given how aggressively and successfully China has advanced in these areas

Contents:

Executive summary and key findings.

I. Chinese smart cities policies: history and current practice.

II. Chines smart cities development trends.

III. "The masses have sharp eyes." Technology and mass surveillance in Chinese smart cities.

IV. China's export of smart cities.

V. Smart cities and U.S.-China relations.

Conclusions and areas for future research.

Notes:

"January 2020."

"Research report prepared on behalf of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover page (USCC, viewed August 19, 2020).

OCLC:

1184672718