When asked what it's like to visit a Chinese city, many foreign entrepreneurs answer "change".

        The intuitive manifestation of change is the new external appearance of the city driven by infrastructure, which may be taller buildings, wider roads, more convenient urban transportation, for which we live in the city to feel the same. And for a warm city, but also to let people living in it have a sense of happiness, a sense of access and a sense of security.

        From the agricultural era to the industrial era, the external form and connotation of the city have undergone radical changes. Towards the digital era, cities are also quietly upgrading, and wisdom has become the new connotation and new form of the city's endogenous development.

        Take urban safety as an example, hundreds of large-scale flooding and gas leak explosions occur in cities across the country every year, threatening people's lives and property. How to make cities safer? Better infrastructure is one aspect, and new infrastructure centered on technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things is also particularly important. Through the construction of smart cities, the digital new infrastructure can better sense, monitor and warn the physical infrastructure, helping city managers to make comprehensive studies and reduce the safety risks brought by rapid urban development.

It has been nearly 15 years since the birth of the smart city concept in 2008, from the application-driven in the early concept introduction period, to the technology-driven in the pilot exploration period, and then to the data-driven in the coordination and promotion period, the concept of smart city changes to reflect the main demands of the different development stages of the city, and is constantly optimized.

Along with the modernization of this core development concept, smart city construction has entered a new development stage. People-oriented, global optimization, intensive coordination, and long-term operation are typical features of this stage, and smart cities usher in a period of change and reconstruction.

The people-oriented changes focus on the needs of the people and enterprises, so that smart cities serve the people; global optimization to break the "each sweeping the snow in front of the door" of local optimization, to achieve the city's global perspective of the collaborative construction; intensive coordination abandoned "rebuilding chimney", so that data The long-term operation breaks the state of only building but not operating, and achieves continuous optimization and continuous improvement of citizen satisfaction.

With the continuous enrichment of the connotation of smart city in the period of change and reconstruction, its development mode has also changed. From a single application system system to user experience and scenario-based integration application system has become an important change. Take urban flooding as an example, the people do not care how many departments need to linkage for disposal, but hope to solve the actual problem most quickly. This inevitably requires the wisdom of all elements and scenes of the city and to achieve full synergy, as well as the subsequent sustainable development and operation.

Therefore, a developmental perspective on the continuous evolution of the city, so that the city truly forms a living body, organism is the future of smart cities. In the past few years, the smart city construction model practiced by many cities has played a huge role in assisting scientific decision-making, but it focuses on the vertical reinforcement of local committees and offices, often using the convergence of existing data, and does not meet the requirements of global optimization, intensive coordination and self-growth iterative development model.

Currently, the industry is gradually forming a consensus that the original smart city construction model should be based on iterative upgrading, from the focus on the construction of the "brain" to the "eyes, limbs, meridians, blood" and other organic composition of the living body, which is the city intelligent body This is the city intelligent body. At the City Smart Body Summit held during the Huawei Total Connect Conference 2022, Wang Bin, president of Huawei's MKT and Solution Sales Department, shared Huawei's understanding and practice of the City Smart Body. He emphasized, "We see the emergence of increasingly complex scenarios and experience requirements, and the development of cities will enter the next phase - a period of change and reconfiguration represented by smart bodies. Focusing on the technical system to build a city smart body with integrated perception, intelligent hub and integrated security has become the consensus and the best choice for the digital development of cities."

The city smart body that combines the best of technology not only forms a sound "body" and has a "body" system for development, but also can realize the ultimate user-centered "body" experience, which makes it form This allows it to develop an evolvable "life force". More and more cities are joining in the construction of urban smart bodies, providing many excellent practices for digital transformation of cities.