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Monday, August 22 2022 - 17:13
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The 2022 Smart China Expo kicked off, smart technology empowers Chongqing Liangjiang New Area to lead innovative development
CHONGQING, Aug. 22, 2022 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

The 2022 Smart China Expo will be held in Liangjiang New Area of southwest 
China's Chongqing from August 22 to 24, with the theme of "Smart Technology: 
Empowering Economy, Enriching Life".

As the most influential event in China's intelligent industry, the Smart China 
Expo has been held for five years. Driven and guided by the expo, Chongqing 
Liangjiang New Area has promoted the development of a high-quality development 
leading area and a high-quality life demonstration area over the past five 
years, according to the Publicity Department of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area.

As a smart city in Chongqing, Liangjiang New Area has in recent years 
continuously injected smart factors such as digitalization, green growth and 
low carbon into industrial fields, including automobiles, electronic 
information, biomedicine and equipment manufacturing. Intelligent manufacturing 
has become the foundation of industrial development in Liangjiang New Area.

In Liangjiang, it takes 17 minutes to produce an excavator and 18 hours to 
produce a car. Intelligent innovation of big data not only brings about the 
optimization of production quality, efficiency and cost, but also drives the 
whole industrial chains and industrial clusters to upgrade simultaneously. 

At present, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area has 79 digital workshops, 22 
intelligent factories and 337 intelligent transformation projects, and the 
output value of high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 21.8 percent last 
year. Data showed that in the first half of this year, the output of new energy 
vehicles in Liangjiang New Area reached 69,000 units, the penetration rate of 
intelligent network connection reached 35 percent, and the output of electronic 
information industry totaled 109.75 billion yuan.

In addition, with the help of the resource agglomeration and window effect of 
the expo, the online business forms, online services and online management of 
Chongqing Liangjiang New Area have ushered in mushrooming development, driving 
the digital economy onto a fast lane.

At present, the three digital economy development strategy platforms of 
Chongqing Liangjiang New Area have gathered 8,000 active market players of 
digital economy, 608 high-tech enterprises, 261 specialized and sophisticated 
enterprises that produce new and unique products, 49 first-class domestic and 
foreign universities and institutes, and the added value of digital economy has 
exceeded one third of Chongqing's total. These achievements are vivid footnotes 
to the development of a smart city in Liangjiang.

At the same time, Chongqing Liangjiang New Area has invested much in promoting 
smart governance, smart education, smart medical care, smart transportation and 
other fields, turning the city into a smart life body that can feel and think.

Smart life can be felt almost everywhere in Liangjiang. With face recognition, 
it takes just 3 seconds for one to enter the community. Walking in the public 
leisure area, one can connect to the community Bluetooth stereo to play 
beautiful music. Through a smart app, one can quickly contact property 
management personnel to address daily issues. 

In Liangjiang's Lijia Street, 115 smart technology application scenarios have 
been established, such as smart book houses, smart medicine cabinets, smart 
schools, and 24-hour smart and convenient service centers. The wide 
applications of intelligent big data have brought the strong presence of 
high-quality and beautiful life in Chongqing Liangjiang New Area. 

Source: The Publicity Department of Chongqing Liangjiang New Area
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