China News Service, Guangzhou, September 24 (Reporter Cai Minjie) The reporter learned from the Guangzhou Municipal Administration Services and Data Administration on the 23rd that on the same day, at the World Smart City Awards Belt and Road Awards Ceremony held at the Global Smart City Conference, Guangzhou won the "Governance Award" for the Belt and Road region. This is another international honor that Guangzhou has won in the field of smart cities after winning the World Smart City Award, China's "City Award" and the Global "Energy and Environment Award" in 2025.
Guangzhou won the 2026 World Smart City Award·One Belt and One Road "Governance Award". Photo courtesy of Guangzhou Municipal Administration Services and Data Administration
The Global Smart City Conference was founded by the Municipal Government of Barcelona, Spain, and is supported by the United Nations Habitat, the World Economic Forum, and the World Bank. This "Belt and Road" award focuses on China and the "Belt and Road" multicultural regions, providing an important channel for outstanding urban cases to go international. A total of more than 130 delegations from 40 countries and regions participated in this conference.
In November 2025, the 15th National Games will open in Guangzhou. During the event, Guangzhou built the Guangzhou Division Operation Guarantee Command System (Guangzhou MOC Command System), which integrated 216 categories of subject data and more than 3,000 channels of high-definition video real-time data, and integrated artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other technologies to create a city-level visual command and dispatch platform to achieve "one-screen overview" of the event situation, "one-click command" of event events, and "one-network collaboration" for event operations. It adopted a micro-renovation model and installed digital sensory equipment and accessed the 5G-A network to achieve full life cycle management of the venue.
After the game, Guangzhou promoted the in-depth integration of event systems, data, and capabilities with city operations, and converted a large number of functional equipment into urban infrastructure to achieve seamless switching between match-time support and daily management, and solve the industry problem of "one-time construction of event systems and idle waste after the game".
In terms of "digital inclusiveness", Guangzhou continues to make efforts in the fields of smart medical care, smart education, smart communities, and smart elderly care. Among them, "Sui Intelligent Management" continues to improve the breadth of urban physical sign monitoring, builds a Guangzhou smart city video sensing system, gathers 710,000 urban video resources, promotes the aggregation and integration of drones, and provides scheduling guarantees for key tasks and major events such as "Hundred Thousands of Projects", three-prevention emergency response, and Spring Festival fireworks displays; "Guangzhou Easy to Handle" strengthens It has optimized its role as a general portal for government services, and has newly established special services and convenient life services such as the "Guangzhou Foreign Service Zone". The cumulative number of real-name registered users in all channels exceeds 35 million; in addition, Guangzhou's first AI-OPC innovation workshop provides one-stop services such as technical support, large-amount tokens, and industry incubation for start-ups.
As a national pilot city for international cooperation in the field of data, Guangzhou relies on the opportunities of the construction of data zones in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and uses the Nansha International Digital Port as the core carrier to promote high-level opening up in the digital field; innovatively explores safe and orderly cross-border data circulation mechanisms, and launches special models such as "Laishu Processing Factory", "Token Going Overseas" and "External Data and Central Calculation" to effectively solve the industry pain point of "data cannot come in and cannot go out".
The relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Government Services and Data Administration said that currently, Guangzhou is building a world-class smart city and a digital economy-leading city. It will use this award as a new starting point to continue to deepen the construction of digital government and smart cities, deeply promote the market-based allocation reform of data elements, iteratively upgrade the AI government empowerment system, improve the cross-border digital cooperation mechanism, and build a core hub city on the Digital Silk Road. (over)
