Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Administration, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, and the Ministry of Natural Resources jointly issued the "Action Plan for Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting Global Digital Transformation" (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), proposing to use cities as comprehensive carriers to promote the construction of digital China, with data empowering the overall economic and social development of cities as the focus, urban digital infrastructure construction as the support, and adaptive digital reform as the guarantee. We will promote facility connectivity, data integration, platform interoperability, and business connectivity, comprehensively promote urban digital transformation, enhance transformation support in all aspects, optimize the transformation ecology throughout the process, and improve the level of intelligent and refined urban governance. The Action Plan proposes that by the end of 2027, significant progress will be made in empowering urban economic and social development with data. "Efficiently handling one thing" will cover key events in urban operations, and "efficiently completing one thing" will cover high-frequency livelihood issues. The digital economy will become a new driving force for urban development, and breakthroughs will be made in key areas and key links such as smart and efficient urban governance, convenient and inclusive services, and urban digital renewal. More than 50 fully digital transformation cities will be built. Mega cities have taken the lead in establishing a new system of intelligent and efficient governance, and have implemented a number of advanced, usable, and independently controllable city models. By 2035, a group of modern cities with international competitiveness and global influence will emerge. The Action Plan proposes to implement the action plan to enhance smart and efficient urban governance, and improve the coordination and collaboration capabilities of emergency response; Carry out the Digital Better Life Action to assist in providing accurate and inclusive services for people's livelihoods; Implementing digital economy empowerment actions to stimulate new driving forces for industry city integration; Promote urban digital renewal actions to improve and enhance the quality of living environment; Implementing digital transformation and building a foundation, creating a coordinated and intensive digital base; Carry out digital reform and innovation actions, and eliminate institutional barriers to digital transformation. In terms of the development of the digital economy, the Action Plan proposes to promote the value realization of data elements through urban development. Give full play to the advantages of urban industrial agglomeration, talent agglomeration, and data agglomeration, strengthen scenario openness and innovation, and promote the aggregation of urban data resources; Accelerate the cultivation of the data element market, create a highland for innovative development of the data industry, and promote the integration and development of the data industry with data intensive industries such as low altitude economy, unmanned driving, and embodied intelligence. Developing the digital economy to promote the development of cities through production. Utilizing digital technology to promote the functional transformation of idle commercial buildings, old factory areas, and old neighborhoods, creating a platform for data innovation and entrepreneurship, and establishing data innovative industrial and business communities. In addition, the Action Plan proposes to accelerate the digital upgrading and transformation of urban infrastructure. Implement the urban ubiquitous sensing project in an orderly manner, and uniformly plan and intensively deploy urban intelligent sensing terminal equipment in high-risk areas such as pipeline leakage and explosion risk points and geological disaster prone areas. Utilizing artificial intelligence and other technologies to deepen the construction of urban lifeline safety projects, promoting the digital transformation and intelligent management of urban infrastructure such as gas, water supply, and comprehensive pipe galleries. Establish a sound mechanism for synchronous planning and construction of digital infrastructure and municipal infrastructure. Support regions with conditions to moderately advance the layout of low altitude data infrastructure, promote the construction of intelligent roadside infrastructure and cloud control infrastructure platforms, and enhance the level of vehicle road coordination. (New Society)