On the 20th, the National Data Administration, together with relevant departments, released the Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting Urban Digital Transformation. The opinions focus on five aspects: overall requirements, promoting urban digital transformation in all fields, enhancing urban digital transformation support in all aspects, optimizing urban digital transformation ecology throughout the entire process, and ensuring measures to promote urban digital transformation. At the press conference held by the National Data Administration on that day, the relevant person in charge interpreted the opinions. Why formulate and issue opinions? Chen Ronghui, Deputy Director of the National Data Administration, introduced that in recent years, China's smart city construction has developed rapidly and achieved phased breakthroughs. At the same time, it is also facing problems such as insufficient urban integration planning and construction, and insufficient industry city coordination and linkage. In addition, with the rapid development of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, the value of data elements is increasingly prominent, deeply integrated and penetrated into various fields of urban economy and society, driving China's smart city construction to move towards a new stage of comprehensive digital transformation of "system reconstruction and quality and efficiency improvement". "In order to adapt to the new situation and requirements of the development of smart cities in the new era, we have formulated opinions in collaboration with relevant departments, integrating data and utilizing development throughout the entire digital transformation and construction of the city, better serving the high-quality development, efficient governance, and high-quality life of the city." said Chen Ronghui. Cities are a comprehensive carrier for promoting the construction of digital China. Chen Ronghui stated that the opinions will use cities as carriers to promote the deep integration of digital technology with the economy, governance, and life, promote the comprehensive implementation of digital China construction in cities, and coordinate the dual drive of technological facility empowerment and basic institutional innovation, focusing on the high-quality development and long-term operation of industries in urban transformation. How to promote global digital transformation? The opinions put forward requirements for the comprehensive digital transformation of the development of smart cities. Among them, by 2027, significant results will be achieved in the comprehensive digital transformation of cities across the country, forming a group of livable, resilient, and smart cities that are horizontally connected, vertically connected, and have different characteristics, effectively supporting the construction of a digital China. For the "global digital transformation", Wu Xiaoning, Director of the Digital Economy Department of the National Data Bureau, specially proposed "overall reshaping of the smart city technology architecture, systematic transformation of urban management processes, and integration to promote deep integration of industry and city". This transformation actually runs through the entire process of urban planning, construction, management, service, and operation. How to promote transformation? Wu Xiaoning said that the key is to promote the digital transformation of cities in all fields, establish and improve the common basic platform system of urban digitization; Comprehensively enhance the support for urban digital transformation, coordinate and promote the construction of urban computing power networks, data circulation and utilization infrastructure, etc; Optimize the urban digital transformation ecosystem throughout the entire process, accelerate the innovation of adaptive systems, and continuously innovate the operation and maintenance models of smart cities. How to understand the relationship between the digital economy and smart cities? Suggestions are proposed to "cultivate and strengthen the digital economy of cities" and "promote the integration of new industries and cities". Lu Dongsen, Deputy Director of the Digital Economy Department of the National Data Administration, believes that the construction of smart cities in the new era is an upgraded version of smart cities that drives urban economic and social development through digitization, and balances modernization of urban governance and industrial system. The digital economy and smart cities have mutual promotion and synergy in the new era