Jiaxiu Li

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES IN CHINA: AN ANALYSIS OF POLICY FRAMEWORK, DIGITAL ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT, AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

The findings show that China’s smart city model is driven by a top-down, multi-level governance system combining central coordination with local implementation, and key challenges remain, including gaps in top-level design, data fragmentation, weak coordination mechanisms, and unresolved issues of data ethics and cyber...