Tech to empower urban infrastructure
SHI YU/CHINA DAILY China is stepping up efforts to make its cities more resilient against potential challenges, unveiling a sweeping guideline last month to develop new urban infrastructures empowered by cutting-edge technologies. The policy document, jointly issued by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, said "new urban infrastructures" are digitalized, intelligent and empowered by information technologies, and thus are better at adapting to and recovering from disasters. Wang Naiyu, director of the REN Center for Urban Resilience at Zhejiang University, said the interconnection and interaction among the various urban infrastructures pose a "major deficiency in the face of extreme disasters". Cities using these technologies are able to collect the massive amounts of information needed to assess and improve the resilience of urban infrastructures, Wang said.
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