On the afternoon of November 13, Huai'an and Tsinghua Unigroup signed a strategic cooperation agreement on smart city construction.

Smart city is a general trend of urban development as well as an important way to promote modernization of urban governance. In recent years, Huai'an has seized new opportunities in the era of big data, and applied the new information technology such as Internet+, big data, etc. It has also actively promoted its construction of urban informatization and digitalization, and strived to improve the level of urban planning, construction, management and service, thus laying a good foundation to build itself into a new smart city. The strategic cooperation between Huai'an and Tsinghua Unigroup, as a deeper integration of the city and wisdom, will effectively improve the intelligence and informatization of Huai'an urban governance, advance the scientific decision-making of the government, the precision of social management, and the efficiency of public services, so that the masses can enjoy more tangible benefits of city life.

Tsinghua Unigroup is the largest comprehensive enterprise of integrated circuits in China with an intensive focus on IT services such as cloud computing, mobile Internet application and big data processing. Its construction of smart city is in the leading position of the industry. The agreement between the two sides mainly covers the direction, mode, content and tasks of the cooperation, in the fields of new smart city construction, industries landing, industrial digital transformation, IT talent training, and new benchmarking construction, etc.