{"id":508729,"date":"2020-09-28T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=508729"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:12:02","slug":"digital-technology-makes-city-smarter-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/digital-technology-makes-city-smarter-than-before_508729.html","title":{"rendered":"Digital technology makes cities smarter than before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Digital&nbsp;economy has been a driving force behind Hangzhou&#8217;s economic transformation and has proved effective in making the city&#8217;s residents happier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The city&#8217;s GDP was 1.54 trillion yuan ($227 billion) in&nbsp;2019, with the per capita GDP standing at&nbsp;$22,000, putting it at the level of a developed country. Digital economy has undoubtedly played a significant role in achieving this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since 2016, when the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ehangzhou.gov.cn\/2020-09\/23\/c_274849.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hangzhou<\/a> City Brain system was first launched, the city has been a pioneer in harnessing digital technology to help with city management.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the COVID-19 outbreak, Hangzhou was the first city to develop a health code system, which has now been used 1.5 billion times. It made valuable contributions to the control of the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ehangzhou.gov.cn\/2020-09\/23\/c_274849.htm\" target=\"_blank\">China Hangzhou<\/a> also developed the &#8220;Qingqing Online&#8221; system, facilitating direct communication between the government and companies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far, the system has distributed 1.33 billion yuan to support and award companies, and more than 150,000 companies have benefited from the system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hangzhou is also making efforts to promote big data technology around the city in a bid to provide better public services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019, Hangzhou&#8217;s core digital economy industries generated 1.13 trillion yuan in business revenue, up by 19.4 percent from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/ehangzhou.gov.cn_60564.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Information Office of Hangzhou Municipal Government<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Cai Jingwen<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=digital-technology-makes-city-smarter-than-before\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> 0510-68559077<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> China<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehangzhou.gov.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ehangzhou.gov.cn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"http:\/\/www.ehangzhou.gov.cn\/\" style=\"width:900px; height:400px;\"><\/object><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=digital-technology-makes-city-smarter-than-before\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital&nbsp;economy has been a driving force behind Hangzhou&#8217;s economic transformation and has proved effective in making the city&#8217;s residents happier. The city&#8217;s GDP was 1.54 trillion yuan ($227 billion) in&nbsp;2019, with the per capita GDP standing at&nbsp;$22,000, putting it at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/digital-technology-makes-city-smarter-than-before_508729.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,437,419,412,411],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Government-Politics","category-Lifestyle","category-Media-Communications","category-News-Current-Affairs","category-Technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}