Digital transformation is the key path to promote the modernization of urban governance and an important starting point for improving the happiness index of citizens. **The Economic Work Conference emphasized the need to implement urban renewal actions to build livable, resilient and smart cities. Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu and other cities have introduced relevant policies to support the use of digital means such as the Internet and big data to improve the level of scientific, refined and intelligent urban governance.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, at the end of 2023, the country's urban permanent population was 932.67 million, an increase of 11.96 million from the end of the previous year, and the urbanization rate of the permanent population was 6616%, an increase of 094 percentage points. This indicates that China's new urbanization process is steadily advancing and urbanization construction has made historic achievements. However, with the expansion of urban population, function and scale, urban governance is becoming more and more difficult. The digital transformation of urban governance can effectively improve the problems of information asymmetry, slow governance speed, and low governance efficiency in the traditional governance process, and ensure that the people enjoy better and inclusive public services. Therefore, building a new pattern of digital governance has become an important measure to improve the efficiency of urban governance.
Improve the institutional mechanisms for the digital transformation of urban governance. Efforts should be made to promote the digitalization of the performance of duties and the operation of government affairs, coordinate and promote the intensive construction, interconnection and coordination of government application systems in various industries and fields, innovate administrative management and service methods, and improve the efficiency of performing duties. Promote the application of technology, process optimization, and institutional innovation in accordance with laws and regulations, refine and improve supporting measures, and promptly revise and clean up provisions in existing laws and regulations that are incompatible with digital transformation. Deepen the construction of "one network and unified management", focus on key areas such as public safety, emergency management, transportation, market supervision, and ecological environment, realize real-time situation awareness, intelligent trend research and judgment, and optimal allocation of resources, and promote the gradual transformation of the urban governance system from passive response to active prediction.
Model innovation to promote the digital transformation of urban governance. Continue to optimize the functions of the national government service platform, and adhere to the online and offline standards.
1. Homogeneous services, and build an integrated government service system with full-time, diversified channels and nationwide access. Promote the integrated handling of administrative services, create a new model of handheld service, carry out high-quality and convenient enterprise-related and people-related services, and improve the ability of active service, precise service, collaborative service and intelligent service. Focusing on the needs of special groups such as the elderly and the disabled, promote the "key-to-key" and "face-to-face" collaborative management model, and improve the level of inclusive, basic and comprehensive services.
Build a secure and reliable data support system. Improving data collection and sharing is the foundation and premise of the digital transformation of urban governance, and we should take the key work of "one network for government services" and "one network for unified management of urban operation" as an opportunity to strengthen the construction of urban governance database and the functional integration of urban governance digital platform, effectively break down "departmental barriers" and "information islands", fully tap the maximum value of data, and realize the transformation from experience governance to data governance. Strengthen the quality management of the whole life cycle of data governance, establish and improve data quality management mechanisms, formulate data classification and grading standards, improve data governance norms, carry out orderly sharing and utilization in accordance with laws and regulations, and ensure the security of all kinds of data and personal information while fully releasing the value of data elements, and provide a reliable digital cornerstone for the modernization of urban governance.
Create an overall collaborative digital ecosystem. Strengthen system integration, take the digital transformation of urban governance as the traction, accurately grasp the different needs of multiple subjects in the urban ecosystem, and create proactive and multi-level innovative service scenarios. Explore the application of new technologies such as urban information models and digital twins, and promote technology integration, business integration and data integration in the process of practice, so as to expand new space and cultivate new momentum for economic development. Promote the extension and value-added of the digital transformation chain of urban governance, organically combine the digital transformation of urban governance with the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, promote the two-way flow of talents, technology, capital and other elements between urban and rural areas, and form a new pattern of urban-rural integrated development. (Zhang Yuefeng).
*:Economy**.