General Office of the CPC Central Committee and General Office of the State Council
Opinions on Promoting the Development of New Urban Infrastructure and Building Resilient Cities
(November 26, 2024)

To deepen efforts to enhance urban safety and resilience, advance the development of new‑type urban infrastructure characterized by digitalization, networking, and intelligent technologies, build resilient cities that are highly adaptable and rapidly recoverable, and strengthen urban risk prevention and governance capabilities, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the following guidelines are hereby put forward.

I. General Requirements

Adhering to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we will thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully carry out General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on urban work, uphold the people-centered development philosophy, and comprehensively, accurately, and thoroughly apply the new development理念. We will coordinate high-quality development with high-level security, adopt a problem-oriented and systems-thinking approach, ensure government guidance and broad social participation, adhere to seeking truth from facts and tailoring measures to local conditions, and leverage scientific and technological innovation and digital empowerment. By fostering deep integration between next-generation information technologies and urban infrastructure development, and by taking the construction of information platforms as the driving force, smart infrastructure as the foundation, and intelligent application scenarios as the support, we will advance the digital transformation of urban infrastructure, build a new, intelligent, and efficient urban infrastructure system, and continuously enhance the resilience of urban facilities, governance, and spatial planning, thereby promoting the safe and sustainable development of our cities.

The primary objectives are: by 2027, to achieve significant progress in the development of new‑type urban infrastructure, continuously strengthen its support for resilient city building, and establish a set of replicable and scalable best practices; and by 2030, to realize substantial results in this area, foster the construction of a number of high‑level resilient cities, ensure sustained improvements in urban safety and resilience, and make urban operations safer, more orderly, smarter, and more efficient.

II. Key Tasks

(1) Implement the construction and renovation of intelligent municipal infrastructure. Conduct thorough surveys of municipal infrastructure, establish a dynamic information‑updating mechanism, and gain a comprehensive understanding of the current status and maintenance conditions. Develop an action plan for the construction and upgrading of intelligent municipal infrastructure, and, based on local conditions, carry out digital transformation and intelligent management of urban water supply, drainage, power supply, gas, heating, fire hydrants (fire water towers), underground utility tunnels, and other municipal systems. Accelerate the intelligent upgrading of security equipment, such as video surveillance, in key public areas and along major roadways. Expedite the development of urban infrastructure lifeline projects; for newly built municipal infrastructure, IoT devices should be designed, constructed, inspected, and commissioned concurrently with the main facilities. For aging infrastructure, prioritize key components and advance upgrades in a coordinated manner, gradually achieving real-time monitoring, simulation, scenario modeling, rapid assessment, and big‑data analysis of operational conditions. This will enhance the capacity for timely hazard warnings and emergency response, ensuring the safe and reliable operation of municipal infrastructure. Establish a “single‑map” system for underground utility networks that encompasses all pipeline categories, ensures accurate baseline data, safeguards data sharing, and fully leverages data value. Build a foundational data platform covering the entire lifecycle of underground networks—planning, construction, operation, and management—and enable visualized, three‑dimensional, smart control over their construction and operation. Strengthen intelligent monitoring of gas leaks, rigorously enforce pipeline safety inspection and oversight responsibilities, and substantially improve the level of safety management for gas and heating systems. Implement flood‑prevention and safety measures for residential pressure‑boosting and storage facilities, intensify water‑quality monitoring, and ensure the safety of drinking‑water quality. Enhance safety‑monitoring of urban bridges, tunnels, and other critical structures. Coordinate utility networks with water‑supply systems, and integrate flood‑control with drainage efforts; refine emergency coordination mechanisms among urban drainage channels, pumping stations, sluice gates, drainage networks, and surrounding rivers, lakes, seas, and reservoirs. Promote improvements in the flood‑resilience of key facilities, including underground infrastructure, urban rail transit, and their connecting passages, while reinforcing flood‑proofing, anti‑theft, and uninterrupted‑power features in underground parking garages and similar spaces.

(2) Promote the coordinated development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent connected vehicles. Taking the support of intelligent connected vehicle applications and the improvement of urban mobility as entry points, establish an integrated perception system that fuses urban roads, buildings, and public facilities. Deeply advance the development of “5G + Vehicle‑to‑Everything (V2X),” gradually and prudently roll out advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving, accelerate the deployment of intelligent sensing systems on urban road infrastructure, and enhance vehicle‑road collaboration. Foster multi‑scenario applications of intelligent connected vehicles to meet the demands of smart transportation. Strengthen the planning, construction, and upgrading of urban logistics and delivery facilities, building a compact, efficient, and smart green delivery network. Expedite the improvement of the emergency logistics system, plan and locate urban emergency supply transshipment hubs, and bolster the capacity for rapid urban supply assurance in emergencies. Accelerate the intelligent transformation and construction of parking facilities. Aggregate diverse urban data—covering intelligent connected vehicles, smart roads, urban buildings, and more—to provide robust support for smart transportation, smart parking, urban management, and other applications.

(3) Develop smart residential communities. Support eligible communities, in conjunction with comprehensive community‑building initiatives, to undertake digital, networked, and intelligent upgrades and management of public facilities, thereby enhancing their capabilities in smart security, monitoring and early warning, and emergency response. Promote the deployment of self‑service terminals such as smart parcel lockers within residential areas. Encourage the provision of intelligent services and order‑maintenance measures for residents and vehicles entering and exiting the community. Innovate smart property‑management models, guiding and supporting property‑management firms in expanding both online and offline lifestyle services. Implement projects to build embedded service facilities in urban communities, improving the convenience and accessibility of resident services. Develop smart commercial districts. Establish and refine a digital‑empowered, multi‑stakeholder governance system for community safety, strengthening efforts to prevent and mitigate risks related to centralized charging facilities for electric bicycles, fire‑truck access routes, and safety evacuation systems, thus bolstering the resilience of urban residential areas.

(4) Enhance the level of smart management for buildings. Establish a safety management system covering the entire lifecycle of building use. Leveraging data and base maps from the First National Comprehensive Risk Survey on Natural Disasters, comprehensively and dynamically identify and track existing safety hazards in buildings. Prioritize inspections of aging residential elevators, seismic performance of outdated building facilities, fire‑fighting systems, aerial access zones for firefighting operations, and evacuation routes, thereby creating digital records of building safety risks. Develop a mechanism for the dynamic updating of building information, strengthen data sharing, and ensure that basic building data and safety‑related information are updated concurrently with urban development and renewal efforts. Gradually establish and refine a comprehensive urban building management platform that is all‑encompassing, fully functional, and highly accurate. Improve mechanisms for eliminating building safety hazards, enhance buildings’ seismic resistance, lightning protection, and fire‑prevention capabilities, and resolutely prevent the occurrence of building‑related accidents.

(5) Promote the development of digital homes. Taking residential buildings as the platform, leverage technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, mobile communications, and artificial intelligence to achieve seamless interconnection among system platforms and smart home devices. Accelerate the establishment of a unified operating-system ecosystem that enables cross-device sharing, enhance the usability and security of smart home devices, and meet residents’ needs for safe electricity, fire, gas, and water use, as well as environmental and health monitoring. Strengthen integrated intelligent information cabling, increase investment in the planning and construction of residential information infrastructure, and improve the connectivity of power and information networks to support the requirements of digital home systems. For newly built fully furnished residences, specify minimum requirements for basic smart products within each unit, and encourage provisions for future installation of smart devices for monitoring abnormal household behavior, emergency calling, and health management. New residential developments shall, in accordance with relevant standards, concurrently install fiber-to-the-home and mobile communication infrastructure. Encourage existing residential buildings to adopt smart‑product configurations modeled on new constructions, and promote the electrification, digitization, and networking of traditional home furnishings. In advancing digital home initiatives, it is essential to fully respect residents’ individual preferences and strengthen data security and the protection of personal privacy.

(6) Promote the coordinated development of intelligent construction and building industrialization. Foster clusters of intelligent‑construction industries, establish an integrated, end‑to‑end intelligent‑construction ecosystem, and drive the transformation and upgrading of the construction sector toward industrialization, digitalization, and green practices. Deepen the application of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies to enhance collaboration across design, construction, and operations and maintenance. Vigorously advance digital design, intelligent manufacturing, and smart construction, and accelerate the development of digital design platforms and integrated systems. Promote the intelligent production and modernization of prefabricated components and parts. Encourage the integration and innovative application of automated construction machinery, construction robots, three‑dimensional (3D) printing, and related equipment. Advance the development of smart construction sites, strengthen the deep integration of information technology with construction management, and further improve the effectiveness of safety oversight.

(7) Enhance the City Information Modeling (CIM) platform. Strengthen the open sharing of information across relevant sectors and domains, including territorial spatial planning, urban development, surveying and remote sensing, and urban operations management. Aggregate three-dimensional data on basic geography, buildings, infrastructure, and various urban operation‑management datasets to construct a three-dimensional urban spatial data model, thereby elevating the level of digitalization in urban planning, construction, and governance. Promote the application of the CIM platform in a manner tailored to local conditions, reinforcing functional integration and coordinated development with other foundational spatiotemporal platforms. Expand use cases in areas such as government services, public health, disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief, and urban health assessments; conduct comprehensive urban risk evaluations; coordinate the utilization of above‑ground and underground spaces; and rationally designate disaster‑prevention and emergency‑sheltering zones. These efforts will provide robust support for scientifically defining development strategies and risk‑control measures for different risk‑prone areas, thus enhancing urban spatial resilience.

(8) Establish and refine a city‑wide operations management service platform. Strengthen real-time monitoring, dynamic analysis, coordinated planning, command and oversight, and comprehensive evaluation of urban operations management services, and advance “unified management through a single network” for urban operations. Accelerate the development of a three‑tier platform architecture at the national, provincial, and municipal levels, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems such as the urban intelligent hub, to achieve information sharing, tiered supervision, and collaborative inter‑agency coordination. Improve the institutional mechanisms for urban operations management, and enhance data‑sharing between the urban operations management service platform and departments responsible for emergency management, industry and information technology, public security, natural resources, ecological environment, transportation, water resources, commerce, health, market regulation, meteorology, data management, fire rescue, and earthquake response, thereby bolstering the capacity for monitoring and early warning of urban operational safety risks. Conduct regular, comprehensive evaluations of urban operations management services and ensure that the results are shared across relevant departments.

(9) Strengthen science and technology leadership and talent development. Organize research on the foundational theories, key technologies, and equipment for new urban infrastructure, accelerating breakthroughs in a range of critical areas, including city‑scale massive data processing and storage, multi‑source sensor information fusion and perception, building information modeling–based 3D graphics engines, and the application of construction robots. Establish and refine technical frameworks covering information infrastructure data, intelligent road infrastructure, and smart construction, and develop a standardized system for new urban infrastructure. Leveraging universities, research institutions, leading enterprises, and major scientific research projects, intensify efforts to cultivate talent, with a focus on developing multidisciplinary, innovative professionals who possess expertise in next‑generation information technologies, engineering construction, urban management, and urban safety.

(10) Innovate institutional mechanisms. Reform management tools, models, and approaches, and explore the establishment of new operational mechanisms and business models for urban infrastructure development. Enhance and refine investment and financing frameworks, broaden funding channels, and promote a diversified investment and financing system in which government funding serves as a guiding force and corporate investment constitutes the mainstay. Support eligible new‑type urban infrastructure projects through special local government bonds, and encourage policy‑driven incentives such as performance‑based subsidies to strengthen guidance. Adhering to the principles of controllable risks and commercial autonomy, optimize financial service products, encourage financial institutions to increase medium- and long-term credit allocation on a market‑oriented basis, and support eligible projects in issuing real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the infrastructure sector. Innovate the supply of data as a production factor, refine regulations on data sharing for urban underground pipelines and other assets, and explore the development of data‑sharing, exchange, collaboration, and open‑access models that underpin new‑type urban infrastructure construction. Strengthen cross‑regional, cross‑departmental, and cross‑hierarchical sharing and utilization of data resources, consolidate the digital foundation for urban planning, operation, and governance, fully leverage this foundation to develop application‑specific services, prevent the emergence of data silos, and avoid redundant infrastructure investments. Encourage pilot initiatives and proactive experimentation, promptly distill replicable and scalable best practices, and disseminate them widely.

(11) Ensure cybersecurity and data security. Strictly enforce relevant laws, regulations, policies, and standards on cybersecurity and data security; strengthen security management and control over information infrastructure, sensing devices, and smart applications; promote the adoption of secure and controllable technologies and products; and enhance safeguards for critical data resources. Bolster the resilience and survivability of information infrastructure, including network hubs and data centers; establish and improve a robust emergency response system for cybersecurity and data security; reinforce cybersecurity and data security monitoring, incident reporting and early warning, and information sharing; and comprehensively enhance the capacity of new urban infrastructure to withstand security risks.

III. Strengthening Organizational Leadership

Under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, all regions and departments must ensure that Party leadership is integrated into every stage and aspect of advancing the development of new urban infrastructure and building resilient cities. They should, in light of their specific circumstances, earnestly implement these guidelines and resolutely guard against formalism. Relevant departments are expected to take proactive responsibility, intensify reform and innovation, and establish and improve coordination mechanisms. The Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development shall take the lead in strengthening guidance and conducting summary evaluations, promptly coordinating to address pressing issues. Major matters shall be reported to and submitted for instructions from the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in accordance with established procedures.

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